Senior Business Analyst

SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST

ST. PAUL, MN, 55101

12+ MONTH CONTRACT

REQUIRED SKILLS

MINIMUM 5 YEARS\' EXPERIENCE AS A SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST OR BUSINESS LEAD, WHICH MUST INCLUDE:

- Expert requirement elicitation and documentation skills
- Previously acted as the liaison role between the business and technology as a point person for both departments
- Experience leading JAD (Joint-Application-Design sessions with various levels of the organization)
- Experience in documenting Requirements through use cases as well as line by line requirements
- Experience producing Business Requirement Documents, System Specs, Business System Requirements as well responding to Technical Requirements documentation.
- Ability to self-direct and manage within timelines, budgets, and scope restrictions
- Previous experience communicating/presenting effectively with all levels of the organization
- Strong facilitation and organizational skills
- Documentation of business rules and business logic
- Experience mining large sets of data to extract meaningful information
- Experience soliciting, documenting, and testing usability requirements
- Previously deployed a purchased vendor application as well as internally developed applications
- Expert understanding of the SDLC process
- Experience participating in all phases of the SDLC process from planning to post-implementation
- Experience creating ERD (Entity Relationship Diagrams)
- Experience interpreting and enhancing existing data models
- Ability to recommend solution architecture to the technical team
- Previously implemented a project to consolidate data into a central data repository
- Previously led the sizing and prioritizing efforts surrounding technical decisions as they pertain to the end solution
- Experience integrating new systems with existing infrastructure including creating detailed process models for such
- Previous experience as a Test lead - unit, functional, performance, capacity, stress, smoke, regression and end to end

o Ability to conduct and report on Root cause analysis

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o Ability to lead defect tracking and reporting

o Previous experience producing a Test plan and Test Strategy

o Previous experience creating test scripts (manual and automated)

o Previous experience facilitating user acceptance testing

- Experience working with various project methodologies including agile and waterfall
- Strong data mining and analysis capabilities applicable to the business acumen
- Ability to complete gap analysis activities, including documenting both current state and future state business models
- Experience working with Share Point for document management
- Experience working with the Department of Human Services
- Experience with Long-Term Care Planning
- Knowledge of waivered and state planned programs and services
- Experience in the health care IT industry

DESIRED SKILLS

- Experience implementing technical solutions with .net/SQL platforms
- Prefer individual with strong Business Analyst skill set along with solution architect and testing skills.
- Experience working with MnCHOICES and the Rate setting initiative within the Continuing Care Administration