Technical Business Analyst

JOb ID 742093

Job Title :Technical Business Analyst

Location : Hybrid Des Moines IA

Duration : 11 Months

Client: State of IA DOM IWD

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Strategic Business Analyst skilled at consulting with executivelevel stakeholders to define business need or problem with Project Management or Scrum Master experience capable of facilitating team meetings and demonstrating project progress.

IAIWDBA6Technical Business Analyst UI Benefits Modernization. THIS RESOURCE IS EXPECTED TO WORK ONSITE 2 DAYS/WEEK ONSITE IN DES MOINES. PLEASE SUBMIT LOCAL RESOURCES. NO REMOTE OPTION.

Strategic Business Analyst skilled at consulting with executivelevel stakeholders to define business need or problem with Project Management or Scrum Master experience capable of facilitating team meetings and demonstrating project progress.

Iowa Workforce Development has an immediate need for a Technical Business Analyst skilled at consulting with business and development staff to define requirements coordinate testing and validate data migration for the Unemployment Insurance Benefits Modernization project at Iowa Workforce Development.

This individual will conduct interviews and group requirement sessions to define requirements identify gaps and analyze process needs.
This individual will participate in gap analysis sessions articulating and/or documenting business needs clearly and accurately to vendor teams.
This individual will coordinate test efforts with UI SMEs prepare test cases as necessary document test results and articulate to vendor teams.

Iowa Workforce Development is a state agency with a remarkable amount of modernization taking place over the next 2 years. These projects will transform agency business operations eliminate technical debt improve user experience and return significant cost savings.

The UI Benefit Modernization will move a 40yearold legacy mainframe system to a contemporary webbased solution. The new system will be a modified/configurable off the shelf product developed and hosted by a thirdparty vendor. This position will work closely with a project manager as well as a large number of UI SMEs while interacting daily with the vendors project management and business analyst teams.
Throughout the project this individual will lead requirement and testing sessions ensuring business needs are captured and system features comply with technical specifications. During data migration this position will facilitate analyze and document data validation.

REQUIREMENTS:
Involvement in prior technology implementations 5 years
Proficient understanding of the software development lifecycle and related methodologies 5 years
Demonstrated ability to elicit document and understand business and technical requirements 5 years
Experience testing system against test cases and technical specifications document results; QA 5 years
Experience preparing test cases and technical specifications; QA 5 years
Proficient in the use of MS Office MS Visio Jira 5 years
Demonstrated ability to facilitate meetings with technical teams business stakeholders 5 years
Experience participating in vendormanaged solution development projects 5 years
Proficient at communicating complex concepts to technical and nontechnical staff at all levels of
responsibility 5 years
Experience in performing Unit Testing Functional Testing Usability Testing System Testing 5 years
Regression Testing System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) 5 years
Knowledge of business process analysis techniques design and development 5 years
Working knowledge of file transfer protocols web services and APIs 5 years
Skilled in developing and executing testing strategies test plans and test cases 5 years