Business Analyst

• 84 months experience in requirements elicitation, business analysis and validation, translating business needs, expectations, constraints and interfaces into actionable technical objectives and identifying solutions by producing written documentation in textual form, visual models and graphical illustration for all stages - system design, requirements, testing & implementation.

• 84 months of experience under project manager supervision, in interacting and following-up with multiple stakeholders including but not limited to program leaders, SMEs, process owners, IT staff, etc. for facilitating JAD/JRP sessions, driving accountability and/or responsibility for assigned tasks completion.

• 84 months of experience in utilizing various business analysis techniques in Agile to derive and document user stories from business requirements. This includes creating and maintaining documentation throughout the SDLC (e.g., business / use-case development, fit-gap analysis, process flows, mockups, sequence diagrams, wireframes, impact & feasibility analysis, change control, etc.), tracking and reporting of risks, inconsistencies and issues during design, requirements' gathering, testing and UAT phases.

• 84 months experience establishing criteria for evaluation, validation and acceptance of deliverable / 'Done' criteria, manage requirements scope, key decisions tracking, tracing requirements completion, obtaining commitment to the requirements and approvals from the project participants. This includes identifying and recording inconsistencies in requirements and clarifying with management for a clear and common understanding of business and IT teams.

• 84 months of experience in all types of testing (including functional, nonfunctional, regressions, integration, UAT, etc.) of applications, business process validations reporting needs and data sanity checks. This includes writing and executing various types of test cases, testing procedures & cycles, manual and automated testing using Selenium and/or similar tools, defects tracking, bugs resolution, periodic testing results communication and requirements-based validation/testing for final deliverables sign-off.

• 72 months experience in supporting cross-functional process-driven cloudbased solutions such as gov.grants, Salesforce, Outsystems, and more.

• 84 months experience in providing business analysis and testing support for legacy systems/data migration and infrastructure upgrade projects involving cloud-based commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products, and/or custom development, process improvement strategies, configurations, troubleshooting incidents and quality assurance.

• 72 months experience using Atlassian online tools, such as Jira and Confluence.

• 84 months of experience in standardizing requirements gathering processes, RFP/RFQ writing, grants management, review / approval mechanisms, implementing standard operating procedures for requirements management,

• 84 months of experience in Business Analysis and Testing tools Microsoft Office products including Visio, SharePoint, Project, Power Automate, Dynamics, etc., Jira/Confluence, Salesforce, DocuSign, Tableau, COGNOS, TFS, HP QC, Selenium, Zephyr, etc.

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Agency: New York State Education Department (NYSED)

Project: Grants Finance Modernization