Job ID :
1065
Company :
State of Ohio
Location :
COLUMBUS, OH
Type :
Contract
Duration :
6 Months
Status :
Active
Openings :
1
Posted :
11 Jul 2012
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Short Description:

 

The Business Analyst is responsible for the set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization.

Complete Description:

DODD currently has limited staff in its PMOCE for BA and QA work. In order to meet business expectations DODD is seeking to augment state staff with contracted resources in this space for 6 months. This position is critical to mainataining a high level of software and will ensure health and safety of DODD consumers accessing DODD Internet based applications including eIDS, Medicaid applications and Incident tracking applications.

 

Tentative Interviews are scheduled for 7/16 and 7/17 with a start date of 7/24.

 

The Business Analyst is responsible for the set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization, and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.

 

 

BA Requirements

• Attention to detail

• Some background in “Information Architecture”

      Site Maps, Wireframes, Navigation Schema, Content Hierarchy

• Ability to aggregate an immense amount of detail and documentation and cross reference this information with user stories

• Ability to take a user story and anticipate some of the questions a developer may need to estimate and begin work

• Understanding at what level of decomposition a user story becomes “actionable”

• Driving the business to create additional user stories as needed

      Willingness to take the steps to draft potential user stories on behalf of the Product Owners and then push for approval

• Liason between the development team and the Product Owners

      Providing clarification to all parties when needed

• Embedded with the development team, such that questions that arise in development flight can be addressed quickly

• Vocal

 

Skills:

Ability to aggregate an immense amount of detail and documentation and cross reference this information with user stories

Required 3 Years

 

Ability to take a user story and anticipate some of the questions a developer may need to estimate and begin work

Required 3 Years

 

Experience working in an Agile enviroment.

Required 2.5 Years

 

Background experience working in an “Information Architecture” type environment: Site Maps, Wireframes, Navigation Schema, Content Hierarchy

Required 1 Years

 

Experience working with VSTS 2010 to login user stories

Desired