IO Datasphere, Inc. has been providing project management, software development and IT staff augmentation services to our clients in the Midwest and throughout the U.S. since 1996. We are an approved vendor on contract to provide software development and IT staff augmentation services for the States of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. We also provide these services to businesses, as well as local and county governments, in the Midwest and nationwide.
Our client is looking for a Business Analyst to assist with current systems.
Tasks
- Ensure project alignment with Strategic Plans.
- Provide content approval and validate estimates for the entire schedule of the project for the Project Manager to ensure compliance with the SUITE Project Management Methodology (PMM) and the Systems Engineering Methodology (SEM).
- Facilitate requirements gathering/meetings with clients to gather requirements (traditional waterfall and agile) for all IT solutions and to identify impacted business processes and determine best process and IT solution integration.
- Lead artifact reviews with peers, system specialists, Enterprise Security and other entities to ensure IT solutions and applications adhere to agency policies, standards or guidelines.
- Participate in Solutions Design Team meetings and assist in creation of the Enterprise Architecture Solution Assessment (EASA)
- Responsible for development of training content and facilitate training.
- Approves application-wide integration, performance, system or user acceptance test plans.
- Validate test data and test results.
- Differentiate between defects and new requirements and initiate change requests as necessary.
- Develop and monitor defect tracking logs and facilitate problem resolution.
- Review and approve project management documents.
- Serves as Agency Services liaison to outside consultants.
- Serve as a liaison between the client concerning application requests, standards, requirements, and other program and project matters.
- Develop and maintain an effective communication plan with vendors and agency staff relating to project level metrics.
- Document and analyze business processes.
- Develop System diagram and Dataflow diagrams for Request for Proposal (RFP) documentation.
- Collaborate with Product Owner to write clear and concise agile user stories with acceptance criteria using BDD or Gherkin format (Given/When/then).
- Assist Product Owner in prioritizing the product backlog based on business value, risk and dependencies.
- Conduct sprint ceremonies like backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint demo, and refinement sessions.
- Develop and maintain Test Plans, Test Cases and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
- Perform Functional and Regression testing and facilitate User Acceptance Testing.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
NOTE: Local candidates ONLY. Candidates must be located in Michigan within 90 minutes of Lansing, MI at time of submission. NO RELOCATION ALLOWED. Resource will be working a hybrid schedule. NO REMOTE ONLY OPTION. Will need to be onsite from day 1, two days a week.
Location: Lansing, MI (Hybrid)
Contract: 1 years
Skills Required:
- 4+ years - Business Analyst or similar experience
- 4+ years - Experience working in Agile/Hybrid environments, translating business requirements into user stories with acceptance criteria.
- Experience working on projects involving vendor owned, designed and hosted solutions.
- Ability to break down complex business requirements into smaller user stories for development teams, while ensuring that technical constraints, limitations and dependencies are considered.
- A bachelor s degree in a business-related field such as business administration, information technology, finance, or marketing (or a similar field).
Skills Desired A plus to have:
- Recent experience of working in an Agile development environment, e.g. Scrum or Kanban
- Experience using Azure Devops or similar tool for work item management and source control.
- Experience with Microsoft tool such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio
- Experience with Oracle or SQL Servers
- Must possess and demonstrate strong troubleshooting
*** Rate depends on experience
*** Candidates authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. We can accept H1b, , TN, and other valid work visas for IT. However, we cannot accept OPT or CPT visas at this time.
*** Companies submitting candidates should only submit direct W2 employees for this position.
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