Business Analyst CTH Columbia MD - Georgia IT Inc.
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About the Job
Senior Business Analyst
Start Date: 09/01/2016
Position Type: 6 months Right to Hire
Locations: Columbia, MD
Additional Details:
Conversion Salary is $82k to $105k DOE. Start by the end of
June.
If selected : candidates are available 2pm to 7pm for 30 minute onsite interview
on June 12th and 14th. Please bring valid ID.
Description:
Senior Business Analyst -
Location: 9755 Patuxent Woods Dr #300, Columbia, MD 21046
Only Citizens/ GC that are Local
Job Summary: As a Senior Business Analyst, you are expected to be advanced
professionals in the systems & process design and implementation space and
have experience on low, medium and high rigor IT projects. The Senior
Analyst will solicit, understand, and document the customer's business
requirements, processes and workflows developing both written and visual
depictions of requirements and process flows. You will also work with
developers to create the functional specifications that meet those
requirements, serve as a subject matter expert to the developers building
those functions, and work with the QA team to test the developed
functionality. This role works closely with other Client, Developers, Testers,
database administrations, and Production Support through each stage of the
software development lifecycle and also demonstrates both existing and new
functionality to the customer stakeholders. This job requires an experienced
analyst who can partner effectively with all levels of the organization,
lead others, drive results, proactively identify and resolve problems, and
make challenging decisions while effectively communicating throughout the
entire process.
Principal Responsibilities:
* Develop and maintain understanding of customer workflows and business
needs to support
* Deliver precise functional specifications to include functional hierarchy,
workflow, business rules, interface design and definitions, outstanding
issues, data analysis, and data mapping to clients and development staff.
* Be responsible for direct interaction with clients including, but not
limited to, eliciting comprehensive business requirements and use cases,
providing value-added analysis, and recommending appropriate solutions.
* Gather requirements and help build and document specifications for
development.
* Update and maintain Requirements Documentation, Requirements Traceability
Matrix, and other project documentation.
* Work with Project Management and Technical teams to develop detailed labor
estimates to develop and deploy functionality
* Conduct gap analysis between application and stated customer requirements
and collaborate with Architects and Developers to estimate project impact.
* Work with Development, QA, and Production Support teams to communicate,
verify, and test the desired functionality changes.
* Work with the clients to demonstrate the new functionality and/or changes
to the system to ensure all relevant business needs are addressed.
* Develop training materials and lead training sessions in one-on-one or
classroom environment.
* Manage multiple competing priorities through effective organization and
communication. Mentor Junior BA resources.
Required Skills and Experience:
* 8 or more years of experience in software development lifecycle,
particularly in customer-facing roles gathering business requirements and
communicating those to internal and external stakeholders.
* Bachelor's Degree or higher in technology-related field or relevant
experience in implementing software in the Health industry.
* Strong MS Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio). Agile Methodlogy
experience required.
* Previous experience with MS SharePoint and Team Foundation Server or
similar tools
* Excellent written and verbal communications. (Candidate will provide
former deliverables to show authorship and original ideas)
* Understanding of business analysis principles, processes, and techniques.
* Ability to develop and prepare use cases, functional specifications, and
technical requirements that can be used by downstream development and
testing teams with minimal clarification.
* Ability to understand and represent the needs of the end user in a
software development environment.
* Strong consultative and advisory skills.
* Must be a self-directed, self-sufficient analyst with demonstrated
initiative, sense of urgency, and ability to come up to speed as a subject
matter expert in a very short timeframe, gaining customer confidence
* Demonstrated confidence and ability to lead client engagements and make a
positive impact immediately upon joining the team.
* Experience authoring proposals, work orders, and system change requests
which document customer requests for new functionality.
* Ability to define customer requests in terms of bounded scope, written
schedule and work plan, as well as detailed approach including steps to
complete the work.
* Demonstrated customer management abilities
Preferred Skills and Experience:
* Experience with health care applications including but not limited to:
Medicare/Medicaid eligibility, Service Planning, Claims Processing and
Billing, Adjudication and Remittance, 1915c-Home and Community Based
Waivers, 1915k-Community First Choice state plan option, 1115 demonstration,
835 and 837, Service Provider functions, InterRAI Assessments.
* Demonstrated Team Leadership and Development skills
* Experience creating low or even high fidelity wireframes of system
application to visually demonstrate business and functional requirements
* Experience facilitating and conducting usability testing, user acceptance
testing, and accessibility testing
Start Date: 09/01/2016
Position Type: 6 months Right to Hire
Locations: Columbia, MD
Additional Details:
Conversion Salary is $82k to $105k DOE. Start by the end of
June.
If selected : candidates are available 2pm to 7pm for 30 minute onsite interview
on June 12th and 14th. Please bring valid ID.
Description:
Senior Business Analyst -
Location: 9755 Patuxent Woods Dr #300, Columbia, MD 21046
Only Citizens/ GC that are Local
Job Summary: As a Senior Business Analyst, you are expected to be advanced
professionals in the systems & process design and implementation space and
have experience on low, medium and high rigor IT projects. The Senior
Analyst will solicit, understand, and document the customer's business
requirements, processes and workflows developing both written and visual
depictions of requirements and process flows. You will also work with
developers to create the functional specifications that meet those
requirements, serve as a subject matter expert to the developers building
those functions, and work with the QA team to test the developed
functionality. This role works closely with other Client, Developers, Testers,
database administrations, and Production Support through each stage of the
software development lifecycle and also demonstrates both existing and new
functionality to the customer stakeholders. This job requires an experienced
analyst who can partner effectively with all levels of the organization,
lead others, drive results, proactively identify and resolve problems, and
make challenging decisions while effectively communicating throughout the
entire process.
Principal Responsibilities:
* Develop and maintain understanding of customer workflows and business
needs to support
* Deliver precise functional specifications to include functional hierarchy,
workflow, business rules, interface design and definitions, outstanding
issues, data analysis, and data mapping to clients and development staff.
* Be responsible for direct interaction with clients including, but not
limited to, eliciting comprehensive business requirements and use cases,
providing value-added analysis, and recommending appropriate solutions.
* Gather requirements and help build and document specifications for
development.
* Update and maintain Requirements Documentation, Requirements Traceability
Matrix, and other project documentation.
* Work with Project Management and Technical teams to develop detailed labor
estimates to develop and deploy functionality
* Conduct gap analysis between application and stated customer requirements
and collaborate with Architects and Developers to estimate project impact.
* Work with Development, QA, and Production Support teams to communicate,
verify, and test the desired functionality changes.
* Work with the clients to demonstrate the new functionality and/or changes
to the system to ensure all relevant business needs are addressed.
* Develop training materials and lead training sessions in one-on-one or
classroom environment.
* Manage multiple competing priorities through effective organization and
communication. Mentor Junior BA resources.
Required Skills and Experience:
* 8 or more years of experience in software development lifecycle,
particularly in customer-facing roles gathering business requirements and
communicating those to internal and external stakeholders.
* Bachelor's Degree or higher in technology-related field or relevant
experience in implementing software in the Health industry.
* Strong MS Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio). Agile Methodlogy
experience required.
* Previous experience with MS SharePoint and Team Foundation Server or
similar tools
* Excellent written and verbal communications. (Candidate will provide
former deliverables to show authorship and original ideas)
* Understanding of business analysis principles, processes, and techniques.
* Ability to develop and prepare use cases, functional specifications, and
technical requirements that can be used by downstream development and
testing teams with minimal clarification.
* Ability to understand and represent the needs of the end user in a
software development environment.
* Strong consultative and advisory skills.
* Must be a self-directed, self-sufficient analyst with demonstrated
initiative, sense of urgency, and ability to come up to speed as a subject
matter expert in a very short timeframe, gaining customer confidence
* Demonstrated confidence and ability to lead client engagements and make a
positive impact immediately upon joining the team.
* Experience authoring proposals, work orders, and system change requests
which document customer requests for new functionality.
* Ability to define customer requests in terms of bounded scope, written
schedule and work plan, as well as detailed approach including steps to
complete the work.
* Demonstrated customer management abilities
Preferred Skills and Experience:
* Experience with health care applications including but not limited to:
Medicare/Medicaid eligibility, Service Planning, Claims Processing and
Billing, Adjudication and Remittance, 1915c-Home and Community Based
Waivers, 1915k-Community First Choice state plan option, 1115 demonstration,
835 and 837, Service Provider functions, InterRAI Assessments.
* Demonstrated Team Leadership and Development skills
* Experience creating low or even high fidelity wireframes of system
application to visually demonstrate business and functional requirements
* Experience facilitating and conducting usability testing, user acceptance
testing, and accessibility testing
Source : Georgia IT Inc.