Business Analyst

IO Datasphere

Lansing, Michigan, 48900

$77,131 per year - estimated ?

NEW

IO Datasphere, Inc. has been providing project management, software development and IT staff augmentation services to our clients in the Midwest and throughout the U.S. since 1996. We are an approved vendor on contract to provide software development and IT staff augmentation services for the States of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. We also provide these services to businesses, as well as local and county governments, in the Midwest and nationwide.

Our client is looking for a Business Analyst to assist with current systems.

Tasks

• Ensure project alignment with Strategic Plans. • Provide content approval and validate estimates for the entire schedule of the project for the Project Manager to ensure compliance with the SUITE Project Management Methodology (PMM) and the Systems Engineering Methodology (SEM). • Facilitate requirements gathering/meetings with clients to gather requirements (traditional waterfall and agile) for all IT solutions and to identify impacted business processes and determine best process and IT solution integration. • Lead artifact reviews with peers, system specialists, Enterprise Security and other entities to ensure IT solutions and applications adhere to agency policies, standards or guidelines. • Participate in Solutions Design Team meetings and assist in creation of the Enterprise Architecture Solution Assessment (EASA) • Responsible for development of training content and facilitate training. • Approves application-wide integration, performance, system or user acceptance test plans. • Validate test data and test results. • Differentiate between defects and new requirements and initiate change requests as necessary. • Develop and monitor defect tracking logs and facilitate problem resolution. • Review and approve project management documents. • Serves as Agency Services liaison to outside consultants. • Serve as a liaison between the client concerning application requests, standards, requirements, and other program and project matters. • Develop and maintain an effective communication plan with vendors and agency staff relating to project level metrics. • Document and analyze business processes. • Develop System diagram and Dataflow diagrams for Request for Proposal (RFP) documentation. • Collaborate with Product Owner to write clear and concise agile user stories with acceptance criteria using BDD or Gherkin format (Given/When/then). • Assist Product Owner in prioritizing the product backlog based on business value, risk and dependencies. • Conduct sprint ceremonies like backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint demo, and refinement sessions. • Develop and maintain Test Plans, Test Cases and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM). • Perform Functional and Regression testing and facilitate User Acceptance Testing. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required: