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SUBJECT: Applying for Business Analyst with Unemployment Insurance Exp Des Moines, IA
Hourly Rate: $60 W2; $69 CTC/1099
Job Description:
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.
- This individual will conduct interviews and group requirement sessions to define requirements, identify gaps and analyze process needs.
- This individual will participate in vendor-hosted jad/jar and 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.
- This individual will lead data validation for a large-scale data migration effort, as legacy data is migrated to the new system.
Iowa Workforce Development is a state agency with a remarkable amount of modernization taking place over the next 5 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:
Involvement in prior technology implementations 10 years
Proficient understanding of the software development lifecycle and related methodologies 10 years
Demonstrated ability to elicit, document and understand business and technical requirements 10 years
Experience testing system against test cases and technical specifications, document results; QA 10 years
Experience preparing test cases and technical specifications; QA 10 years
Proficient in the use of MS Office, MS Visio, Jira 10 years
Working knowledge using SQL 7 years
Demonstrated ability to facilitate meetings with technical teams, business stakeholders 10 years
Experience participating in vendor-managed solution development projects 7 years
Experience participating or leading data migration and data validation efforts 10 years
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