Business Analyst III from INSPYR Solutions
Austin, TX 79416
About the Job
Job Title: Business Analyst III
Location: Hybrid in Austin, TX
Position Type: Long-term Contract
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.
Business Analyst III
Key Responsibilities:
(30%) Coordinates and analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems: and coordinates and analyzes computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
(5%) Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Required: Business Analyst or Advanced System Administrator Position
Preferred: Process Workflow Analytics
Preferred: Eliciting Requirements
Preferred: User Acceptance testing and implementation
Preferred: Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
Our benefits package includes:
About INSPYR Solutions
Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients' business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.
INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, INSPYR Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities
Location: Hybrid in Austin, TX
Position Type: Long-term Contract
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.
Business Analyst III
Key Responsibilities:
(30%) Coordinates and analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems: and coordinates and analyzes computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
- Facilitates meetings and discussions with internal and external stakeholders to document statements of work, project charters, business and functional requirements, procedures and workflows, user stories, acceptance criteria, test plans, and risk assessment plans for all assigned projects in accordance with project schedules
- Develops project schedules with assigned resources, review with internal and external stakeholders and manages the schedules to ensure projects remain within scope, timeline, and budget. Provides weekly status reports and updated project schedules to project manager.
- Regularly reviews the risk log with internal stakeholders and external vendors to effectively quantify and manage and identify projects risks and difficulties in accordance with the strategies documented and update the risk log with new risks or changes. Designs strategies to mitigate or avoid them.
- Consults on the analysis of an application, troubleshoots system problems, and implements solutions.
- Escalates issues to project manager.
- Develops the design and review of test cases; processes change requests; and manages a project's scope, acceptance, installation, and deployment. Conducts stage gate reviews at end of each major phase of the project/s, ensures decisions, signoffs and approvals are documented, assesses go/no-go decisions, and ensures lessons learned or retrospectives are conducted at the end of each phase. Finds true points of task/project failures and determine what could have been done differently. Provides reports to project manager.
- Works closely with the project Quality Assurance (QA) function to ensure comprehensive and cohesive plans and documents are in place for sprint validation, triage processes, regression testing, acceptance approval, migration stability, and production support.
- Ensures detailed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) plans are in place for all projects.
- Ensures that user stories and acceptance criteria for all approved requirements have been documented, reviewed by the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and approved by the business divisions.
- Ensures QA tasks and processes are well defined to include Comptroller of Public Accounts (CPA), as applicable, smoke, regression, integration testing, and defect management.
- Escalates issues to ITD management with solid facts for the situation as well as several options (with pros and cons) to correct the situation/s as well as recommended options.
- Ensures change requests for new or added requirements comply with the governance procedures, and the required documentation is provided in a timely manner for Administration.
- Facilitates business process workarounds for functions that are postponed or descoped and ensure these are well documented and accepted by the divisions impacted.
- Works closely with the Business Service Division (BSD) and relevant business divisions/vendors to ensure all financial transactions are tested and meet CPA requirements.
- Ensures all required integration points with external service vendors and other state agencies are part of the project plan and timely communication with these service providers as well as scheduled testing is in place.
- Identifies opportunities for improving business processes through automation and assists in the preparation of proposals to develop new systems.
(5%) Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Required: Business Analyst or Advanced System Administrator Position
Preferred: Process Workflow Analytics
Preferred: Eliciting Requirements
Preferred: User Acceptance testing and implementation
Preferred: Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
Our benefits package includes:
- Comprehensive medical benefits
- Competitive pay
- 401(k) retirement plan
- …and much more!
About INSPYR Solutions
Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients' business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.
INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, INSPYR Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities