Job ID: TN-58770 (96990120)
Remote Business Analyst with Data Warehousing, POC, Agile, change requests, RCA, QA, Data/Process Modeling and SQL experience
Location: Remote, THEC
Duration: 8 months
skills:
Database Data Warehousing Novice (1-3 Years)No
Communication skills both verbal and written Proficient (4-6 Years)No
Team work Proficient (4-6 Years)No
Qualifications :
•Post-secondary education in Business, Information Technology or a related field.
•5 or more years of previous experience as a Business Analyst.
•Proven experience generating and documenting functional requirements, including business rules, use cases, process flows and proof of concepts.
•Ability to learn quickly and work independently or as part of a team.
•Strong interpersonal skills (working with a range of business users).
•Strong problem solving and communication skills.
•Good presentation or facilitation skills.
•Understanding of Agile project methodology.
•Self-managing and deadline focused.
•Knowledge of SQL will help but is not required.
Senior Business Analyst:
Tennessee Higher Education Commission is looking for a business analyst to help us migrate legacy applications to a more modernized platform. This individual will work closely with business stakeholders to identify requirements that maximize impact or benefits for our users.
This person’s main tasks will include working with the product owner to understand the project scope, analyzing the customer needs and finding the solutions to address them, creating the requirements in the form of user stories with appropriate acceptance criteria, reviewing the requirements to make sure that every business rule is covered and the acceptance criteria meet the user story functionality, grooming the product backlog based on the prioritization provided by the product owner, scheduling and conducting meetings with assigned technical staff to gain insight into the state of the individual release, sprint plans, schedules, deliverables, milestones, projects risks and migration.
Responsibilities :
•Facilitate meetings and conduct workshops to elicit, develop, document, help prioritize and validate requirements from key stakeholders.
•Evaluate software change requests, determine the business need, or conduct root cause analysis. Identify and document problems utilizing root cause analysis, and prioritize potential solutions based on risk and impact. Validate the recommended solutions.
•Communicate with a broad range of staff to understand requirements and issues, as well as to share updates. Publish meeting notes to summarize and communicate the project plans.
•Analyze complex requirements into features and user stories with acceptance criteria that can be understood by the development team.
•Take ownership of the product backlog, managing scope, user story optimization, sizing, prioritizing, and updating the backlog repository.
•Be the focal point of contact with developers to review progress, outputs and conduct functional and user acceptance tests with QA and the business users.
•Create and participate in the testing strategy. Help define acceptance test objectives. Work with end-users during user acceptance testing.
•Responsible for user acceptance testing of each feature during development, ensuring that application processing and functionality occurs as expected.
•Create training materials associated with deliverables. Provide application demonstrations and training as required.
•Attend sprint planning, daily scrum, grooming and sprint retrospective meetings.
75603 Job Code 75603 Analyze and document business requirements and processes related to public sector service delivery for a single or multiple related State agencies. Formulate alternative solutions to satisfy these requirements, which may involve business process reengineering, and/or the deployment of information technology. Plan and/or conduct end user training for new applications. Prepare cost benefit analyses according to State CBA methodology. Develop and/or oversee plans for the execution of a solution from project inception to conclusion. Construct data models and activity/process models as may be required to define system functions. Provide support for the installation, testing, data conversion, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of information systems. Conduct and document the results of special studies dealing with systems and/or business process issues. Facilitate sessions to gather and document requirements and explore solutions. Superior negotiating, analytical, group facilitation, and relationship management skills. Work effectively with all levels of State staff from clerical through agency executive management. This includes skillful interviewing capability. Possess superior organizational and written/verbal communication skills. Hands-on Data Modeling and Process Modeling experience may be required for some assignments. An understanding of current information technology with an ability to conceptualize solutions to business problems in the most effective and cost-efficient manner. (Note: Current information technology in the State’s environment includes: 1) multi-tier (mainframe, departmental/midlevel, and desktop) computing; 2) the use of internet and intranet to facilitate service delivery; 3) electronic data interchange; 4) imaging; 5) data warehousing; and, 6) geographic information systems. The deployment of information technology must be consistent with the State’s architectural framework which is based upon the philosophy that information sharing, data integration and network interoperability is the basis for effective and efficient service delivery to the citizens of Tennessee.) An ability to integrate solutions across multiple functional and technical environments is required. Requires a minimum of two years of experience in the last two years. Must hold a BA/BS degree. Same qualifications as Business Analyst I with the exception of the following: Requires a minimum of five years of increasingly complex and responsible experience in the last five years. Must hold a BA/BS degree (advanced degree a plus).