Technical Business Analsyt 703503

Iowa Workforce Development has an immediate need for a Technical Business Analyst skilled at consulting with business and development staff to define requirements, coordinate testing and validate data migration for the Unemployment Insurance Benefits Modernization project at Iowa Workforce Development. Strategic Business Analyst skilled at consulting with executive-level stakeholders to define business need or problem, with Project Management or Scrum Master experience, capable of facilitating team meetings and demonstrating project progress.

- This individual will conduct interviews and group requirement sessions to define requirements, identify gaps and analyze process needs.

- This individual will participate in gap analysis sessions, articulating and/or documenting business needs clearly and accurately to vendor teams.

- This individual will coordinate test efforts with UI SMEs, prepare test cases as necessary, document test results and articulate to vendor teams.

Iowa Workforce Development is a state agency with a remarkable amount of modernization taking place over the next 2 years. These projects will transform agency business operations, eliminate technical debt, improve user experience and return significant cost savings.

The UI Benefit Modernization will move a 40-year-old legacy mainframe system to a contemporary web-based solution. The new system will be a modified/configurable off the shelf product, developed and hosted by a third-party vendor. This position will work closely with a project manager, as well as a large number of UI SMEs, while interacting daily with the vendor's project management and business analyst teams.

Throughout the project, this individual will lead requirement and testing sessions, ensuring business needs are captured and system features comply with technical specifications. During data migration, this position will facilitate, analyze and document data validation.

Requirements

Skill

Required / Desired

Amount

of Experience

Candidate Response

Involvement in prior technology implementations

Required

10

Years

Proficient understanding of the software development lifecycle and related methodologies

Required

10

Years

Demonstrated ability to elicit, document and understand business and technical requirements

Required

10

Years

Experience testing systems against test cases and technical specifications, and documenting results; QA

Required

10

Years

Experience preparing test cases and technical specifications; QA

Required

10

Years

Proficient in the use of MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, Googls Suite, Jira

Required

10

Years

Experience managing/grooming/prioritizing backlog

Required

10

Years

Demonstrated ability to facilitate productive meetings with technical teams and business stakeholders

Required

10

Years

Demonstrated strong communication skills across technical teams and business stakeholders, specifically to leadership - setting/resetting expectations

Required

10

Years

Involvement in milestone/stage gate sign off and approval ensuring technical and business readiness

Required

10

Years