Unclassified - Austin, TX
posted 21 days ago
The Worker will serve as a senior Business Analyst/Product Owner for the modernization projects. The Worker will be responsible for delivering quality products that meet the state's desired operational and technical requirements. The worker will have considerable latitude to use their experience and judgement to ensure successful completion of their assigned tasks. The Worker will be required to multi-task, analyze priorities, communicate clearly, and set expectations for the phases of the project. The worker will be responsible for communicating with multiple internal and external stakeholders including program and technical staff, and other contracted and vendor resources. The Worker will participate in meetings, track deliverables and schedules, and alert management of any issues that may impact providers. The services to be provided include, but are not limited to the following: The Worker will analyze program policies, procedures, and processes to determine the impact on business systems and functional areas. They will analyze and review system, data, and project deliverables such as business user requirements, design documentation, test plans, and risk assessment plans to ensure business and technical requirements are met. The Worker will work with program area staff to solicit, analyze and document business processes and requirements. They will act as a liaison between state staff and vendors to translate operational and business requirements to vendors. As the Product Owner for an agile team, the Worker will work with agile/scrum teams of contracted software vendors to implement system changes. They will analyze and write User Stories with Acceptance Criteria based on business needs and according to the Agile methodology. The Worker will develop and maintain business user test scenarios and participate in systems and user acceptance testing. They will create use case scenarios, test plans, and exit criteria that accurately map back to the documented business requirements or user stories. The Worker will review, analyze and execute test cases with a formal testing tool, track, document and report the status of testing, and evaluate proposed test strategies to ensure appropriate test coverage. Additionally, the Worker will identify potential project risks and issues and develop mitigation strategies, report project status to management on established timelines, document action items and business decisions, conduct meetings and/or presentation tasks as needed, and manage the schedule for deliverables as established. Other duties may be assigned related to the project.