Job ID :
9455
Company :
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Location :
HARRISBURG, PA
Type :
Contract
Duration :
7+ Plus Months
Salary :
Open
Status :
Active
Openings :
1
Posted :
06 Nov 2016
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Short Description:  Business Analyst (BA) - 7 plus years relevant experience and IIBA certification.

Complete 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, and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.  The Business Analyst should possess an understanding of data and educator dashboard applications, with knowledge of PIMS and the PDE Educator Dashboard as a plus.
The selected candidate for this position will work on the SLDS Educator Dashboard Enhancement project, gathering and documenting requirements, working with stakeholders, and maintaining requirements traceability, use case development, testing, training material development as it applies to the enhancements to the Educator Dashboard.  The Business Analyst will work closely with the SLDS Grant Manager to understand the identified stakeholders and currently identified enhancements, and next steps for requirement gathering to ensure a full set of requirements are captured and documented. 
Role Description:
• Experience conducting Facilitated Workshops for requirements analysis.
• Experience creating workflows using formal notation such as the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN).
• Knowledge of formal requirements gathering methodologies.
• Experience developing Business Requirements - project initiation document, what the needed achievements will be, and the quality measures.
• Experience developing Functional requirements - describe what the system, process, or product/service must do in order to fulfill the business requirements.
• Experience developing User (stakeholder) requirements - are a very important part of the deliverables, the needs of the stakeholders will have to be correctly interpreted. This deliverable can also reflect how the product will be designed, developed, and define how test cases must be formulated.
• Experience developing Quality-of-service (non-functional) requirements - re requirements that do not perform a specific function for the business requirement but are needed to support the functionality.  
• Experience developing Report Specifications - define the purpose of a report, its justification, attributes and columns, owners and runtime parameters.
• Experience developing Requirements Traceability Matrix - a cross matrix for recording the requirements through each stage of the requirements gathering process.
• Strong organization and communication (verbal and writing) skills.  Experienced developing graphic representations of complex business processes.

Experience using formal requirements gathering methodologies Required 6 years
Experience  as a Business Analysis of IT applications Required 6 years
4 year college degree or equivalent Highly Desired
Experience with PIMS, and PIMS data collections Highly Desired
Experience developing business, functional, and non-functional requirements Required 5 years
Experience developing Requirements Traceability Matrix Required 4 years
Verbal and Written communication Required 4 years
Experience managing requirements through requirements management tools Required 2 years


Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience
Experience using formal requirements gathering methodologies
Required
6
Years
4 year college degree or equivalent.
Highly desired
 
 
Experience developing business, functional, and non-functional requirements
Required
5
Years
Experience developing Requirements Traceability Matrix
Required
4
Years
Experience as a Business Analyst of IT Applications
Required
6
Years
Experience managing requirements through requirements management tools
Required
2
Years
Experience with PIMS, and PIMS data collections
Highly desired