What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Analyst position at NextGen Information Services, Inc.?
Description of Major Duties & Deliverables
The Business Analyst (BA) shall conduct preliminary design analysis and development of prototypes for evaluation by stakeholders. Once feedback is received from the stakeholder community, the BA will make the necessary changes to produce a mock system demonstrating the effectiveness of the system.
The goals of the project are to continue the expansion of the system. Goals will also include the evaluation of user enhancement requests for integration into the maintenance of the system for portions currently in production. This position will serve as a key point of contact for User Acceptance Testing and provides oversight of the testing process for the duration of the project. This includes regression testing and coordination with stakeholders during implementation of additional counties.
BA responsibilities include but may not be limited to the following :
- Elicit, analyze, review, and document business requirements (functional and non-functional)
- Document business processes at a high level as well as a detailed flow
- Experience with testing tools for automation and performance load testing
- Create and update detailed requirements and documentation
- Create traceability matrices to map business requirements to test cases
- Experience creating system, integration, and performance test plans
- Create use case and test case scenario documentation
- Perform test case scenarios following the FDLE methodology of development testing, system testing, and user acceptance testing
- Assist with JAD sessions with cross-jurisdictional agencies and stakeholders
- Assist with coordination of project deliverables
- Ensure proposed system architecture design, software and hardware solutions are professionally documented
- Contribute to activity definition, activity sequencing, activity resource estimating, activity duration estimating, and WBS development
- Contribute to risk identification, tracking, and analysis
- Contribute to issue management and tracking
- Communicate effectively with project stakeholders
- Provide weekly status reports to the project manager
- Assist in user training for a train-the-trainer approach
- Ensure customer expectations are met with the project
- Assist with the production implementation as needed
- Assist with keeping system documentation current
Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :
Deliverables
The BA will report directly to the Project Manager and is expected to perform the tasks and specific assignments given by the FDLE supervisor, or the Project Manager.