Role : Business Analyst

Location : Columbia

Duration : 12 Months

Rate : $50/hr

Job Description :

Take initiative in performance, working with groups to effectively accomplish project objectives and engage in the following activities. As a Business Analyst, you will work closely with the Product Owner and development team members by:

• Refining operational objectives by studying business functions; gathering information; evaluating output requirements and formats.
• Supplying new user stories or use cases by analyzing requirements; constructing workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing specifications.
• Improve the system(s) by studying current practices and suggesting required modifications.
• Recommends controls by identifying problems; writing improved procedures.
• Maintaining system protocols by writing and updating procedures.
• Providing references for users by writing and maintaining user documentation; providing input to operations help desk support, user training needs, etc.
• Preparing technical reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Perform tasks efficiently and work together with team to ensure project success.
As a Software Development Tester you will be responsible for all aspects of software testing. Working within the development team you will:
• Plan, design, and author effective test cases.
• Evaluate and test new or modified software programs and software development procedures used to verify that programs function according to user requirements and conform to established guidelines.
• Learn and use enterprise tools for test management, execution and reporting to enhance the overall software testing process.
• Develop automated tests for your test cases and integrate your automations into test suites when determined as an effective and efficient means of executing tests.
• Review computer operating logs to identify program processing errors; utilize tools to interrogate databases and data stores to determine proper application behavior.
• Observes computer monitoring/performance metrics during program test to detect error codes or interruption of program; record and report errors using enterprise tools available to the project.
• Identifies differences between established standards and user applications and suggests modifications to conform to standards.
• Conduct compatibility tests with vendor-provided programs; test implementations/integrations with third party platforms.
• Monitors program performance after implementation to prevent reoccurrence of program operating problems and ensure efficiency of operation.
• Write documentation to describe program evaluation, testing, and correction.

Required Qualifications:

• Understand program, policy, practice and business operational functions within state and local government Economic services.
• Minimum 1-2 years of experience with SNAP, TANF and/or other economic services programs.
• Proven ability to “translate” technical practices and terminology to business owners and stakeholders and to “translate” business requirements to technical teams
• Must be able to multi-task and meet deadlines in a fast-paced start-up environment.
• Attention to detail and strong analytical and conceptual skills; ability to create original concepts and theories for a variety of projects.
• Bachelor's degree in business, information systems or related discipline, or equivalent and extensive related project experience; M.B.A. or MPA preferred.
• Five to seven years of experience in IT, with a minimum of two years in business process design.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Agile software development is a plus.

Environments and Tools
• Visual Studio 2015
• Legacy MF applications
• MS SQL 2014 R2
• TFS (Team Foundation Server)
• MS Project