Business Analyst...

Position : Business Analyst

Duration : 3 years

Location : Mississippi

Project Details :

The Mississippi Department of Education has a current goal for every community to effectively use a World-Class Data System to improve student outcomes. This goal has an outcome to increase the availability of quality data to drive decisions that improve student outcomes. We are planning to satisfy this goal in part by modernizing our current student information system along with improving the quality of data in connected systems. This will include web-based application development and creation of dashboards and reports that will improve access accuracy and ease of use for all stakeholders.

Job Description :

• This position will require a qualified Technical Business Analyst to take the lead in the following tasks :
• Ability to create and document detailed business requirements perform analysis outlining problems opportunities and solutions for the stakeholders
• Author and update internal and external documentation and formally initiate and deliver requirements and documentation
• A strong understanding of the documentation development process the software development process and product lifecycles

Required Degree : Bachelors degree

Required Skills : # YEARS

Must be able to effectively communicate (verbal and written) requirements with stakeholders as well as development team

No min.

Must be able to collaborate with Project Manager Architect and developers to ensure business requirements are communicated accepted and meet expectations

Must be able to translate and simplify requirements from stakeholders into written requirement documents for development team. Documents include : Formal Business Requirements Document Functional Design Document Technical Design Document Technical Use Cases User stories Business Cases Requirements Traceability Matrix Test cases.

Must be able to create diagrams flowcharts and workflows of business processes

Must be able to create diagrams flowcharts and workflows of data flow through system

Must be able to create and manage test cases for Quality Assurance.

Must be familiar with software and database development concepts

Technical Business Analyst work on a software development team

Must have experience developing technical documentation for enterprise software users system administrators and other technical audiences

Strong experience in requirements management and creating all documents listed above

Strong experience in user acceptance testing

Ability to analyze business functions

Practical experience generating process documentation and reports

Strong working knowledge of relevant Microsoft applications including Visio

Extensive experience with data visualization

Excellent communication with the ability to translate data into actionable insights

Scrum

Agile

Preferred Skills :

MS Visio or similar product

Database Entity Design

Figma

Education data systems

SQL

Common Education Data Standards

Scrum / Agile

SDLC

Key Skills

SQL,Agile,Business Analysis,Visio,Waterfall,Business Process Modeling,Requirements Gathering,User Acceptance Testing,Business requirements,SDLC,Systems Analysis,Data Analysis Skills

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1