Senior Business Analyst - Local to PA

Senior Business Analyst - 815864

Work Location : Harrisburg, PA

PennDOT seeks a Sr. BA

***This requisition has an hour-long virtual interview.***
***Client would prefer candidates local to the Harrisburg, PA Area.***
***In office full-time for the first month and then hybrid (2 days per week at home and 3 days in the office at The Keystone Building in Harrisburg, PA (the days can be discussed at the interview)).***

DVS Testing and Implementation Support BA Job Description – 

The Senior Business Analyst (BA) will work with stakeholders and development team members as directed by the DVS Program Management Office staff Point of Contact (POC) to provide analysis and related project support. 

Senior BA will (but not limited to):  

·         Support requirements elicitation, prioritization, validation, and documentation 

·         Document process changes as needed for improved business processes, including leading business meetings, writing specification documents, and identifying business requirements

·         Perform analysis associated with the support and maintenance of the adaptation to electronic data processing methods to several applications

·         Participate in the scoping of application updates and upgrades

·         Participate in the planning, conducting and evaluation of testing activities

·         Assist with implementation support and outcome documentation 

·         Provide guidance and serve as a liaison between the development team and project stakeholders to resolve issues 

·         Research user reported system problems through onsite analysis of abnormal processing conditions and determine improved business process or workarounds to enable processing functions

·         Work with the business areas and BSM/contracted vendors to ensure that requested enhancements are made in a timely manner

·         Work with the Project Manager and team to schedule meetings as necessary

·         Attend sessions and conduct interviews with stakeholders to identify and document the business and system requirements, create and submit any required documentation

·         Work products and artifacts will be sent for stakeholder review and feedback

·         Provide meeting agendas and meeting minutes for specified meetings

·         Have an in-depth understanding of both PennDOT business and Federal and/or State requirements

·         Analyze the Federal and/or Rule and pending technical specifications to identify the majority of the requirements

·         Participate in interviews with the business stakeholders to determine any additional PennDOT specific requirements

·         Be knowledgeable of, adhere to and contribute to established digital accessibility regulations and standards

The Senior BA will perform various testing and validation activities surrounding DVS iterative releases as agreed upon by the project’s governance team.  The Senior BA will perform the following testing support activities: 

·         Develop and/or update test management plans 

·         Learn and utilize the various Driver Licensing Applications that are used in support of work

·         Create new and update existing user acceptance test scripts (UAT) 

·         Support UAT and testing activities

·         Create test records

·         Coordinates and tests accessibility conformance 

·         Document testing outcomes, identify gaps and report system defects and issues

·         Trouble shoot system errors from test

Senior Business Analyst level is defined as: 

·         Five or more years of business analysis experience 

·         Capable of applying the listed knowledge, skill, competency, or performing the activity independent of supervision 

·         Able to instruct and mentor others in the exercise or performance of the business analysis responsibilities 

·         Mastery of industry standards and best practices for the business analysis responsibilities with the ability to contribute improvements to the practice 

Required/Desired Skills