Job ID: TX-53021024 (99290329)
Govt BA with MS Project, SharePoint, use cases, user stories, PM and TX Project Delivery Framework experience
Location: Austin,TX (DFPS)
Duration: 4 months
Skills:
Minimum Requirements:
Years Required/Preferred Experience
5 Required Experience as a Business Analyst in an enterprise level software development environment
5 Required Functional and technical requirements gathering, analysis and documentation with a strong attention to detail
5 Required Experience with the Microsoft Suite of tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project and SharePoint)
4 Required Developing Use Case documentation and User Stories that lead to clearly defined and numbered project requirements.
3 Required Facilitating meetings, requirements gathering sessions and conducting presentations
2 Required Developing and presenting project status updates and reporting on key performance indicators for project success
2 Required Communication skills, both verbal and written
2 Preferred Knowledge of the Texas Project Delivery Framework
2 Preferred Experience with software development and project management lifecycles
Work involves the following:
-Seeking, gathering and analyzing information and data from stakeholders and subject matter experts.
-Converting findings into meaningful documentation for use by the development team.
-Communicating with technical, non-technical, functional, management and executive staff.
-Working within cross-functional teams.
-Taking initiative to develop a foster a collaborative approach among teams before, during and after the requirements gathering process to achieve a common mission, vision, values and goals.
-Tracking software development life cycle activity metrics as it relates to requirements and other established metrics.
The Worker must have a strong Business Analysis background with extensive experience in the following:
-Experience as a Business Analyst within an Enterprise-level application development environment.
-Experience working in a fast-paced information technology environment.
-Experience as a Business Analyst within an Enterprise-level application development environment.
-Experience developing solid requirements documents with a strong attention to detail to capture project need and scope.
-Robust skills facilitating and leading groups to clarify and define project requests, needs, scope and priorities, as well as delivering presentations for meetings involving cross-functional teams and including stakeholders.
-Excellent written and verbal communication skills to provide clear and consistent status updates and inform stakeholders and agency leadership of project progress.
-Solid experience with the Microsoft Suite of tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, MS Project, and Visio).
-Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC) methodologies.
-Knowledge of Case Management applications a plus but not required.
-Communicating and listening in a way that is focused on clear expression of, as well as understanding of ideas and concepts that ultimately lead to positive outcomes and results.
-Prefer knowledge of Texas Project Delivery Framework.