1 year contract REMOTE - MUST BE LIVING IN EASTERN TIME ZONE.
W-2 Rate$40/hour
MUST be an US Citizen or Currently holding a Green Card
NC Department of Health and Human Services seeks a Senior Business Analyst/Technical Writer to support IT software development projects implemented by vendors and/or in-house development team
Primary tasks include:
• Identify and document stakeholders, data flows, and current and future state process flows.
• Gather, document, validate, and maintain business, functional, and technical/non-functional solution requirements needed as input to market analysis, software procurement, and solution development process.
• Translate client's business needs into agile themes/features, personas, epics, user stories and product backlogs or detailed business requirement documents and use cases depending on development approach.
• Work with Product Owner, business SMEs and Vendor to groom user stories and define acceptance criteria to ensure that stories meet the team-defined definition of ready.
• Work with vendor or internal developers and testers to confirm the functionality meets the story's acceptance criteria.
• Participate in vendor discovery/gap analysis and detailed requirement development efforts.
• Assist the Business/Product Owner in planning, preparing for and conducting user acceptance testing, including developing test scenarios and test cases.
• Perform requirements traceability throughout the project lifecycle to support user acceptance testing and production rollout.
• Develop procurement documents such as Requests for Proposals, Requests for Quotes, and Requests for Information.
• Develop federal Advanced Planning Documents and Advanced Planning Document Updates as needed to secure federal funding.
• Support vendor proposal evaluation efforts and assist in documenting/consolidating evaluation results.
• Support process improvement initiatives.
• Perform market research for proposed automation projects.
• Support options analysis and business case development for proposed automation projects.
• Document meeting agendas and notes.
• Facilitate requirements gathering meetings.
• Provide technical writing support including developing project document templates, proofing and/or authoring documents, drafting formal communications, and disseminating project documents.
• Support project manager in maintaining project artifacts and developing status reports.
• Support the development of surveys, assessment tools, project methodologies, policies and procedures.
• Maintain SharePoint site for each assigned project
• Perform other analysis and technical writing assignments as assigned
MUST have solid understanding of software development lifecycle and Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid development frameworks, including BA role