Overview
Skills
Job Details
Business Analyst
Location: Austin, Texas
Duration: 6+ months
Phone/Skype Hire. Onsite from Day 1 / Hybrid. Local preferred. State of TX residency is must.
Must have current LinkedIn profile.
Responsibilities
- Analyzes program policies and procedures to determine their effect on automated systems and system functional areas.
- Analyzes and reviews complex project deliverables such as project charters, business user requirements, design documentation, test plans, and risk assessment plans to ensure business requirements are met.
- Serves as liaison by providing consultation, documentation, and direction regarding analysis, design, configuration, testing, and policy implementation of the system.
- Develops, documents, and revises system design procedures, test procedures, and quality standards.
- Identifies and prioritizes the product backlog to ensure efficient use of resources.
- Creates test plans that accurately map back to the documented business requirements or user stories.
- Participates in user acceptance testing and testing of new system functionality.
- Tracks, documents, and reports status of testing.
- Identifies potential project risks and difficulties, and designs strategies to mitigate or avoid them.
- May develop training curriculum and conduct formal training sessions covering assigned systems module.
- Performs related work as assigned.
Skills Needed
Years | Required/Preferred | Experience |
8 | Required | Experience in performing complex business analysis and writing technical documentation. |
8 | Required | Experience reporting project status to management including risks, issues, and key decisions. |
8 | Required | Experience identifying project risks and issues; and developing/implementing mitigation strategies. |
8 | Required | Experience in effective general written/oral communication, including documenting requirements, deliverables, test scenarios and project status. |
8 | Required | Experience utilizing business analysis skills and interacting with business end users to gather, validate and document business requirements and translate into technical solutions to satisfy the business needs. |
8 | Required | Experience performing review and approval processes of complex technical user and system requirements written by vendors. |
8 | Required | Experience with Microsoft Office products (Teams, Word, Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint). |
8 | Required | Experience coordinating and developing test plans/strategies, exit criteria, and test scenarios. |
8 | Required | Experience executing detailed test cases within a complex software environment. |
8 | Required | Experience using testing management software. |
8 | Required | Experience utilizing the Agile software development methodology. |
8 | Required | Experience as a Business Analyst. |
8 | Required | Experience approving and prioritizing user stories based on stakeholder feedback and subject matter expertise. |
8 | Required | Experience with Medicaid management information systems and processes. |
4 | Preferred | Knowledge of Texas Medicaid programs and PASRR. |
2 | Preferred | Experience with the Long-Term Care Online Portal application. |