Business Analyst with State experience

USM Business Systems Inc. is a quickly developing worldwide System Integrator, Software and Product Development, IT Outsourcing and Technology assistance supplier headquartered in Chantilly, VA with off-shore delivery centers in India. We offer world-class ability in giving most astounding quality and administrations through industry best practices planned to convey remarkable worth to our customers.

Utilizing our industry knowledge, administration service offering expertise and innovation abilities, we distinguish new business and innovation slants and create answers for help customers around the globe, giving top of the line solid and practical IT benefits which are cost effective services.

Established in 1999, the organization has corner qualities in building and dealing with a Business Oriented IT environment with rich involvement in technology innovation, ERP and CRM counselling, Product Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Management, SOA, BPM, Data Warehousing, SharePoint Consulting and IT Infrastructure. Our other offerings include modified solutions and administrations in ERP, CRM, Enterprise architecture, offshore advisory services ,e-commerce, Social , Mobile, Cloud, Analytics (SMAC) and DevOps.

USM, a US ensured Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) is perceived as one of the fastest developing IT Systems Integrator in the Washington, DC zone. Most as of late, USM was positioned #9 on the rundown of the Top administrations organizations in the DC Metro Area – Washington Business Journal (2011). We are a project-driven firm that reliably meets the IT needs of our State and Government customers through development and business keenness.

Role Description:

• Participate in a team of individuals in the Automation Integration Bureau functioning as a Business Analyst supporting customer focused testing of several large automated systems within the Division of Welfare

• Works as a customer advocate on a business testing team supporting validation of software developed incrementally by several product development teams

• Support the testing team in documenting test plans: objectives, scope, approach, assumptions, dependencies, risks and schedule for a particular release

• Works closely with engineers developing automated tests to ensure alignment with customer needs, process flows and system requirements

• Works closely with business testers developing manual User Acceptance Tests to ensure alignment with customer needs, process flows and system requirements.

• Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and user needs

• Facilitates the discovery of as-is and to-be business processes

• Documents business processes in a manner that facilitates long term maintenance, business process automation, and process improvement

Skills and knowledge in the following areas:

• Supporting agile teams by collaborating with business managers, subject matter experts and specialists in policy and operations to ensure automated functionality meets business requirements, implementation parameters, readiness plan components, and timelines

• Coordinating and facilitating the gathering of business and system requirements in support of incremental and iterative system development

• Developing key deliverables within the agile development process; user stories, acceptance criteria, business-focused test scenarios, solution models, as-is and to-be process models, user story maps, user personas, light-weight functional and non-functional requirements and product roadmaps

• Working with customer business units to understand their business processes

• Performing workflow design and process improvement

• Understanding and reviewing test models for product test and release control (plans, data, and scripts)

• Understanding and reviewing test plans, test scripts, test cases and links that connect to requirements and done criteria

• Performing testing on software applications and/or websites

• Writing and executing SQL statements to analyze data in support of business analysis and testing

• Demonstrating strong organizational and communication skills and attention to detail 

• Creating and maintaining high-quality documentation of all relevant specifications, systems, and procedures

Preferred Skills/Experience (Any of these is a plus)

• Experience with automated testing tools

• Working knowledge of a modern welfare eligibility case management system

• Experience working with government agencies

If you are interested in above position, please share your updated resume to  alih(at)usmsystems(dot)com or can directly call me on 703-955-3955.