Education Business Analyst ; Project Assistant

Duties Description

Under The Supervision Of a Lead Business Analyst, This Position Will Work With HESC Innovation And Transformation Team And Other Program Teams On An Array Of Duties Including But Not Limited To:

• Research and elicit requirements while adhering to established standards and utilizing all necessary deliverables.
• Conduct studies, analyze, and evaluate all required “as-is” and “to-be” processes and flows needed for the new system.
• Document business process deficiencies requiring resolution during and after implementation.
• Work with vendor, agency staff and stakeholders to collect, analyze, define, and document business and functional requirements.
• Develop training materials related to business systems implementation for users and write procedure manual.
• Assist with business process analysis, business process reengineering, and developing workflow processes.
• Work with the project team on defect identification, resolution, and testing.
• Create and maintain requirement traceability documents.
• Prepare Use cases, business requirements documents (BRD’s), flowcharts, process models and test cases.
• Assist with validating solutions that meet business needs by developing, maintaining, and executing test plans, test cases, and test data utilizing HP ALM (agency test tool).
• Work with selected vendor(s) to ensure that quality software integration and application functionality in being properly tested end to end.
• Participate in quality reviews and deliverable acceptance discussions, participate in functional and user acceptance testing.
• Assist with defining deliverable acceptance criteria and participate in deliverable acceptance review sessions.
• Participate in risk identification, risk mitigation, and issue escalation activities, schedule development and management, and change process management.
• Assist the project team with data migration analysis and data cleansing tasks.
• Provide on-going support to business units and other entities using the Grants and Scholarship systems.
• Analyze the impact of changes to IT system requirements or business processes.
• Ensure system award rules meet eligibility requirements and adhere to Legislative mandates.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Five Years
* Of Business Analysis Experience, Where At Least 50 Percent Or More Of Your Duties Included Experience In At Least One Or More Of The Five Knowledge Areas Below:

• Using recognized business analysis methodologies to elicit requirements from business users as the foundation for the solution to the organization’s business needs.
• Describing in a comprehensive written document (e.g., business case, fit-gap analysis document, or functional specification) what the system, process, or product/service must do to fulfill the business requirement(s).
• Using recognized business analysis methodologies (e.g., business process flows, fit-gap analyses, or functional designs) to design solutions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the business processes.
• Documenting, communicating, and validating requirements throughout the system, process, or product/service development lifecycle for all changes to processes that would enable the organization to achieve its goals;
• Developing test scenarios, scripts, and data; reviewing test results; and assessing the implementation of appropriate solutions to ensure they perform to the required specifications and achieve the design capabilities.

• An Associate's Degree may substitute two year of the required experience.
• A Bachelor's Degree may substitute four years of the required experience.
• A Master's Degree may substitute five years of the required experience.

TELECOMMUTING INFORMATION:
Telecommuting schedule of up to 50% remote work can be discussed with the hiring manager during the interview.

Generous benefits package, worth 65% of salary, including:

• Thirteen (13) paid holidays annually, plus two (2) floating holidays.
• Up to Thirteen (13) days of paid vacation leave annually.
• Up to Five (5) days of paid personal leave annually.
• Up to Thirteen (13) days of paid sick leave annually for CSEA or PEF; up to eight…