Automation Engineer, Level I - AE 26-16356

Title: Automation Engineer, Level I
Duration: 36 Months
Location: Albany, NY (Hybrid: 50% onsite / 50% remote)

Job Summary:

The Automation Engineer will analyze requirements for state systems and document them to support implementation of a modernized Integrated Eligibility System (IES).

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in rules extraction from existing state systems. This includes quality control tasks such as verifying 100% coverage and confirming the outputs are usable by business partners and business analysts.
• Use the extracted rules to inform the to-be system’s business rules. Identify which rules carry forward and which are retired, in collaboration with agency business partners and within the project scope.
• Identify and document as-is and to-be system requirements and design using the prescribed business analysis methodology, processes, and toolkit. This includes context diagrams, process flows, use cases, requirements traceability matrices, user interface specifications, and mockups.
• Meet with stakeholders, including agency and local district subject matter experts, users, and executive teams, to elicit requirements.
• Produce work products that keep system planning, design, and delivery aligned with business needs.
• Conduct peer reviews of work products and assist in the internal review process, while adhering to project timelines and priorities.
• Work with blended teams of state and vendor resources.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• 3 to 7 years of experience as an Automation Engineer.
• 3 to 7 years of business analysis experience in state government within the human services domain, focused on Eligibility, Enrollment, and Case Management (EECM). This time must include eliciting requirements from stakeholders, analyzing and managing requirements through the full SDLC, and developing artifacts for business and technical stakeholders.
• Fluency in producing business process flows, user stories, data dictionaries, wireframes, and specifications for a modernized eligibility system.
• 3 to 7 years of experience on an Integrated Eligibility System (IES) modernization program, implementing transformed health and human services applications that align to state and federal standards.

Desirable Qualifications:

• 3 to 7 years of experience as an automation engineer performing business analysis and workflow automation for an eligibility system. This includes assisting with project planning and roadmaps, creating test scenarios, and managing change requests.
• 3 to 7 years of experience collecting legacy interface information for state-supervised and locally administered applications, drafting Interface Control Documentation, and assisting with disposition of mainframe interfaces for a modernized solution.