Business Analyst

An agency located in Montgomery, Alabama is looking for a Business Analyst for a long term contract.

Please note that this position requires onsite work.

Pay rate range: $33.00/hr - $42.00/hr

Requirements and skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field. Or equivalent work experience

• Seven years' experience as an advanced Business Analyst. • Experience in facilitating product owners in gathering requirement and possess excellent writing skills to capture and document detailed requirements.

• Extensive experience with system requirements and their constraints/dependencies.

• Experience facilitating Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions and requirements sessions.

• Extensive experience with Software Development Methodology.

• Process knowledge and experience with Agile Software Development projects.

• Experienced in developing and negotiating a win/win solutions to project issues

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.

• Strong analytical and product management skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.

• Ability to develop and negotiate win/win solutions to project issues.

• Must be able to work independently on all assigned tasks.

• Proficiency with MS Office (including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access) and Visio.

• Fully utilizing Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) to track requirements, work items, bugs, deliverables and builds

Preferred Skills

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university with advance education in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration fields related to position

• Experience with Eligibility and Enrollment(E&E) for Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) business areas.

• Experience Health Care Industry similar to Eligibility and Enrollment related areas.

• Working hands-on with all aspects of the System Development life Cycle Extensive experience with Change Management.

• Experience with project development methodology and able to apply methodology in a practical manner

• Strong analytical skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.

• Knowledge of Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Eligibility and Enrollment (E&E)

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.

• Proficiency with MS Office (including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access) and Visio • Proficiency with MS Team Foundation Server (TFS) preferred

Responsibilities

• Looking for an experienced Business Analyst who can support MES-CARES by proactively communicating with system users, managers, subject matters experts and product owners to elicit requirements.

• Responsibilities includes closely with product owners, QA, operations, engineering, business analysts and many other cross-functional partners.

• Liaise with internal and external customers, and development teams to build products.

• Elicit requirements and critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources.

• Decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information, and distinguish user requests from underlying true needs.

• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs.

• Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates using natural language.

• Track progress and review project tasks to make certain deadlines are met.

• Deliver requirements documents, document use case, work flows, UI, write test cases and other deliverables as assigned