Location
Montgomery, AL | United States
Job description
Position: Business Analyst
Duration: 6 months possible extension
Location: Montgomery, AL (Onsite from day 1)
Responsibilities
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 analyse 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
Skills Required
- 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
Skills Preferred
- 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 Enrolment (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
Experience Required
- 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
Experience Preferred
- Experience with Eligibility and Enrolment (E&E) for Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) business areas.
- Experience Health Care Industry similar to Eligibility and Enrolment 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
Education Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or another related field. Or equivalent work experience
Education Preferred
- 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
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