Business Analyst
Apply NowCompany: NextGen Information Services
Location: Tallahassee, FL 32303
Description:
Description of Major Duties & Deliverables
The Business Analyst (BA) shall conduct preliminary design analysis and development of prototypes for evaluation by stakeholders. Once feedback is received from the stakeholder community, the BA will make the necessary changes to produce a mock system demonstrating the effectiveness of the system.
The goals of the project are to continue the expansion of the system. Goals will also include the evaluation of user enhancement requests for integration into the maintenance of the system for portions currently in production. This position will serve as a key point of contact for User Acceptance Testing and provides oversight of the testing process for the duration of the project. This includes regression testing and coordination with stakeholders during implementation of additional counties.
BA responsibilities include but may not be limited to the following:
Elicit, analyze, review, and document business requirements (functional and non-functional)
Document business processes at a high level as well as a detailed flow
Experience with testing tools for automation and performance load testing
Create and update detailed requirements and documentation
Create traceability matrices to map business requirements to test cases
Experience creating system, integration, and performance test plans
Create use case and test case scenario documentation
Perform test case scenarios following the FDLE methodology of development testing, system testing, and user acceptance testing
Assist with JAD sessions with cross-jurisdictional agencies and stakeholders
Assist with coordination of project deliverables
Ensure proposed system architecture design, software and hardware solutions are professionally documented
Contribute to activity definition, activity sequencing, activity resource estimating, activity duration estimating, and WBS development
Contribute to risk identification, tracking, and analysis
Contribute to issue management and tracking
Communicate effectively with project stakeholders
Provide weekly status reports to the project manager
Assist in user training for a train-the-trainer approach
Ensure customer expectations are met with the project
Assist with the production implementation as needed
Assist with keeping system documentation current
Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience
Minimum of 2 years of experience on successful, enterprise level information technology projects
Minimum of 2 years of experience in integration of multiple systems or applications
Minimum of 2 years of experience in gathering and documenting business requirements (functional and non-functional) on full life cycle development projects
Minimum of 2 years of experience creating comprehensive test plans and use of automated testing tools
Experience with meeting facilitation and requirements documentation
Experience with business analysis and eliciting and documenting requirements
Ability to gather and evaluate customer requirements and needs
Strong communication and collaborative skills
Excellent oral, written and communications skills;
Ability to work independently or cooperatively with other software developers
Ability to deliver assignments of the project in the agreed schedule, to the correct technical specification (i.e. defined to meet user requirements) within the approved budget and other specified criteria
Accountable to the FDLE assigned Project Manager for all phases of specific projects
Experience with Scrum and JIRA
Deliverables
Business Requirement Document
Stakeholder Register
Stakeholder Collaboration Plan
Business Requirement Traceability Matrix
Solution Validation Report
Business Activity Diagrams
Functional Specification Document
Business Use Cases
Status reports
Issue Register updated on a regular schedule
Maintain meeting minutes and schedules
Decision log for critical decisions between the business unit, projects office and the vendor
Maintain action items and obstacles
The BA will report directly to the Project Manager and is expected to perform the tasks and specific assignments given by the FDLE supervisor, or the Project Manager.
The Business Analyst (BA) shall conduct preliminary design analysis and development of prototypes for evaluation by stakeholders. Once feedback is received from the stakeholder community, the BA will make the necessary changes to produce a mock system demonstrating the effectiveness of the system.
The goals of the project are to continue the expansion of the system. Goals will also include the evaluation of user enhancement requests for integration into the maintenance of the system for portions currently in production. This position will serve as a key point of contact for User Acceptance Testing and provides oversight of the testing process for the duration of the project. This includes regression testing and coordination with stakeholders during implementation of additional counties.
BA responsibilities include but may not be limited to the following:
Elicit, analyze, review, and document business requirements (functional and non-functional)
Document business processes at a high level as well as a detailed flow
Experience with testing tools for automation and performance load testing
Create and update detailed requirements and documentation
Create traceability matrices to map business requirements to test cases
Experience creating system, integration, and performance test plans
Create use case and test case scenario documentation
Perform test case scenarios following the FDLE methodology of development testing, system testing, and user acceptance testing
Assist with JAD sessions with cross-jurisdictional agencies and stakeholders
Assist with coordination of project deliverables
Ensure proposed system architecture design, software and hardware solutions are professionally documented
Contribute to activity definition, activity sequencing, activity resource estimating, activity duration estimating, and WBS development
Contribute to risk identification, tracking, and analysis
Contribute to issue management and tracking
Communicate effectively with project stakeholders
Provide weekly status reports to the project manager
Assist in user training for a train-the-trainer approach
Ensure customer expectations are met with the project
Assist with the production implementation as needed
Assist with keeping system documentation current
Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience
Minimum of 2 years of experience on successful, enterprise level information technology projects
Minimum of 2 years of experience in integration of multiple systems or applications
Minimum of 2 years of experience in gathering and documenting business requirements (functional and non-functional) on full life cycle development projects
Minimum of 2 years of experience creating comprehensive test plans and use of automated testing tools
Experience with meeting facilitation and requirements documentation
Experience with business analysis and eliciting and documenting requirements
Ability to gather and evaluate customer requirements and needs
Strong communication and collaborative skills
Excellent oral, written and communications skills;
Ability to work independently or cooperatively with other software developers
Ability to deliver assignments of the project in the agreed schedule, to the correct technical specification (i.e. defined to meet user requirements) within the approved budget and other specified criteria
Accountable to the FDLE assigned Project Manager for all phases of specific projects
Experience with Scrum and JIRA
Deliverables
Business Requirement Document
Stakeholder Register
Stakeholder Collaboration Plan
Business Requirement Traceability Matrix
Solution Validation Report
Business Activity Diagrams
Functional Specification Document
Business Use Cases
Status reports
Issue Register updated on a regular schedule
Maintain meeting minutes and schedules
Decision log for critical decisions between the business unit, projects office and the vendor
Maintain action items and obstacles
The BA will report directly to the Project Manager and is expected to perform the tasks and specific assignments given by the FDLE supervisor, or the Project Manager.