Business Analyst...

Harrison, MS - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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	7
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.	7
Must be able to create diagrams flowcharts and workflows of business processes	7
Must be able to create diagrams flowcharts and workflows of data flow through system	7
Must be able to create and manage test cases for Quality Assurance.	7
Must be familiar with software and database development concepts	7
Technical Business Analyst work on a software development team	7
Must have experience developing technical documentation for enterprise software users system administrators and other technical audiences	7
Strong experience in requirements management and creating all documents listed above	7
Strong experience in user acceptance testing	7
Ability to analyze business functions	7
Practical experience generating process documentation and reports	7
Strong working knowledge of relevant Microsoft applications including Visio	7
Extensive experience with data visualization	7
Excellent communication with the ability to translate data into actionable insights	7
Scrum	7
Agile	7

Preferred Skills:

MS Visio or similar product

Database Entity Design

Figma

Education data systems

SQL

Common Education Data Standards

Scrum / Agile

SDLC

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 qua...