NCDHHS Business Analyst- Senior

NCDHHS Business Analyst
- Senior

NC Department of Health and Human Services seeks a Senior Business Analyst to support the business case development, process improvement and requirements analysis, testing and implementation for new software solution projects for DMHDDSUS and DSOHF.

Primary tasks include:

• Identify and document stakeholders, data flows, and current and future state process flows.
• Gather, document, validate, and maintain business, functional, and technical/non-functional solution requirements needed as input to market analysis, software procurement, and solution development process.
• Translate client's business needs into agile themes, product backlogs, epics, user stories or detailed business requirement documents and use cases depending on development approach.
• Work with Product Owner, business SMEs to groom user stories and define acceptance criteria to ensure that stories meet the team-defined definition of ready.
• Work with vendor or internal developers and testers to confirm the functionality meets the story's acceptance criteria.
• Participate in gap analysis and detailed requirement development efforts.
• Assist the Business/Product Owner in planning, preparing for and conducting user acceptance testing, including developing test scenarios and test cases.
• Perform requirements traceability throughout the project lifecycle to support user acceptance testing and production rollout.
• Develop procurement documents such as Requests for Proposals, Requests for Quotes, and Requests for Information.
• Support vendor proposal evaluation efforts and assist in documenting evaluation results.
• Support process improvement initiatives
• Perform market research for proposed automation projects.
• Support options analysis and business case development for proposed automation projects.
• Document meeting agendas and notes.
• Facilitate requirements gathering meetings
• Support project manager in maintaining project artifacts and developing status reports
• Support the development of surveys, assessment tools, project methodologies, policies and procedures
• Maintain SharePoint site for each assigned project
• Perform other analysis assignments as assigned

Extensive knowledge of business system techniques and testing methodologies for software development

Required:

7 Years

Demonstrated experience in gathering business requirements and development of business rules and process flow.

Required:

7 Years

Proven experience with business process design, definition and/or re-design.

Required:

7 Years

Solid understanding of software development lifecycle and Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid development frameworks, including BA role.

Required:

7 Years

High proficiency in Microsoft Office products (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and SharePoint.

Required:

7 Years

Knowledge creating Context, Data Flow, and Functional Decomposition Diagrams.

Required:

5 Years

Experience in planning & coordinating user acceptance testiing including developing and executing test scenarios and test cases.

Required:

5 Years

Experience facilitating small to large meetings.

Required:

7 Years

Demonstrable analytical skills and attention to detail.

Required

Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written).

Required

Demonstrable analytical skills and an attention to detail.

Required

Excellent creative thinking and problem-solving skills.

Required

Working knowledge of Jira and Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Quality Center (QC).

Highly desired

Experience working for State government.

Highly desired

Healthcare or Medicaid related experience.

Highly desired

Experience using Microsoft Project.

Highly desired