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Location

Texas | United States

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Job description

I. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES





Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission requires the services of 2 Business Analyst 3 , hereafter referred to as Candidate(s), who meets the general qualifications of Business Analyst 3, Applications/Software Development and the specifications outlined in this document for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission .


All work products resulting from the project shall be considered "works made for hire" and are the property of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission and may include pre-selection requirements that potential Vendors (and their Candidates) submit to and satisfy criminal background checks as authorized by Texas law. Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission will pay no fees for interviews or discussions, which occur during the process of selecting a Candidate(s).

(30%) Coordinates and analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve

existing systems; and coordinates and analyzes computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling

limitations.

• Facilitates meetings and discussions with internal and external stakeholders to document statements

of work, project charters, business and functional requirements, procedures and workflows, user

stories, acceptance criteria, test plans, and risk assessment plans for all assigned projects in

accordance with project schedules

• Develops project schedules with assigned resources, review with internal and external stakeholders

and manages the schedules to ensure projects remain within scope, timeline, and budget. Provides

weekly status reports and updated project schedules to project manager.

• Regularly reviews the risk log with internal stakeholders and external vendors to effectively quantify

and manage and identify projects risks and difficulties in accordance with the strategies documented

and update the risk log with new risks or changes. Designs strategies to mitigate or avoid them.

• Consults on the analysis of an application, troubleshoots system problems, and implements solutions.

Escalates issues to project manager.

• Develops the design and review of test cases; processes change requests; and manages a project's

scope, acceptance, installation, and deployment. Conducts stage gate reviews at end of each major

phase of the project/s, ensures decisions, signoffs and approvals are documented, assesses go/no go

decisions, and ensures lessons learned or retrospectives are conducted at the end of each phase. Finds

true points of task/project failures and determine what could have been done differently. Provides

reports to project manager.

(30%) Coordinates the service request life cycle through customer related service request responses, business

requirements coordination, technical specifications and related artifacts review, and monitors system

integration and user acceptance testing prior to implementation.

• Works closely with the project Quality Assurance (QA) function to ensure comprehensive and cohesive

plans and documents are in place for sprint validation, triage processes, regression testing, acceptance

approval, migration stability, and production support.

• Ensures detailed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) plans are in place for all projects.
• Ensures that user stories and acceptance criteria for all approved requirements have been

documented, reviewed by the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and approved by the business divisions.

• Ensures QA tasks and processes are well defined to include Comptroller of Public Accounts (CPA), as

applicable, smoke, regression, integration testing, and defect management.

• Escalates issues to ITD management with solid facts for the situation as well as several options (with

pros and cons) to correct the situation/s as well as recommended options.

(30%) Supports the workflow processes for change management, facilitates discussions among cross

functional teams of internal and external stakeholders (including supporting vendors) and ensures integrated

testing is executed where required.

• Ensures change requests for new or added requirements comply with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage

Commission Change Advisory Board (CAB) and/or the TABC AIMS CAB governance procedures, and

the required documentation is provided in a timely manner for CAB Administration. Facilitates

business process workarounds for functions that are postponed or descoped and ensure these are

well documented and accepted by the divisions impacted.

• Works closely with the Business Service Division (BSD) and relevant business divisions/vendors to

ensure all financial transactions are tested and meet CPA requirements.

• Ensures all required integration points with external service vendors and other state agencies are part

of the project plan and timely communication with these service providers as well as scheduled testing

is in place.

• Identifies opportunities for improving business processes through automation and assists in the

preparation of proposals to develop new systems.

(5%) Develops training curriculum and conduct formal training sessions covering assigned systems module

and ensures that a migration plan is in place for deployment to production and includes processes to support

the maintenance Service level Agreement (SLA).

(5%) Performs other duties as assigned.

II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.
Years	Required/Preferred	Experience
8	Required	Business Analyst or Advanced System Administrator Position
5	Preferred	Process Workflow Analytics
2	Preferred	Eliciting Requirements
2	Preferred	User Acceptance testing and Implementation
2	Preferred	Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification

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