Business Analyst with State experience

Role Description:

• Participate in a team of individuals in the Automation Integration Bureau functioning as a Business Analyst supporting customer focused testing of several large automated systems within the Division of Welfare

• Works as a customer advocate on a business testing team supporting validation of software developed incrementally by several product development teams

• Support the testing team in documenting test plans: objectives, scope, approach, assumptions, dependencies, risks and schedule for a particular release

• Works closely with engineers developing automated tests to ensure alignment with customer needs, process flows and system requirements

• Works closely with business testers developing manual User Acceptance Tests to ensure alignment with customer needs, process flows and system requirements.

• Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and user needs

• Facilitates the discovery of as-is and to-be business processes

• Documents business processes in a manner that facilitates long term maintenance, business process automation, and process improvement

Skills and knowledge in the following areas:

• Supporting agile teams by collaborating with business managers, subject matter experts and specialists in policy and operations to ensure automated functionality meets business requirements, implementation parameters, readiness plan components, and timelines

• Coordinating and facilitating the gathering of business and system requirements in support of incremental and iterative system development

• Developing key deliverables within the agile development process; user stories, acceptance criteria, business-focused test scenarios, solution models, as-is and to-be process models, user story maps, user personas, light-weight functional and non-functional requirements and product roadmaps

• Working with customer business units to understand their business processes

• Performing workflow design and process improvement

• Understanding and reviewing test models for product test and release control (plans, data, and scripts)

• Understanding and reviewing test plans, test scripts, test cases and links that connect to requirements and done criteria

• Performing testing on software applications and/or websites

• Writing and executing SQL statements to analyze data in support of business analysis and testing

• Demonstrating strong organizational and communication skills and attention to detail

• Creating and maintaining high-quality documentation of all relevant specifications, systems, and procedures

Preferred Skills/Experience (Any of these is a plus)

• Experience with automated testing tools

• Working knowledge of a modern welfare eligibility case management system

• Experience working with government agencies

If you are interested in above position, please share your updated resume to alih(at)usmsystems(dot)com or can directly call me on 703-955-3955.