Job description

UNIVERSAL Technologies is seeking a Business Analyst for a hybrid position in Albany, NY. Applicants should be prepared for 3 days onsite and 2 days remote work in Albany, NY.

Position: TheBusiness Analyst staff will help client stakeholders identify a grants and scholarship management solution that will maximize the value delivered by the HESC, or HESC-sourced, application development team. The Business Analyst will investigate business systems, elements of the organization structure, and document requirements using industry standard techniques.

WHO WE ARE:
UNIVERSAL Technologies, LLC is a Women-Owned (M/WBE) IT solutions and consulting company focused at delivering enterprise systems that significantly improve our clients IT performance. We work across the IT spectrum including Development, Business/Systems/Data Analysis, Project Management, Cyber Security, Network Engineering, and High-Level System Architecture.

The pride in the services we provide and the accessibility and flexibility we provide to employees are what make Universal Technologies stand out from the rest! We hope to propel your IT career to the next level and excite our employees with new and challenging projects.

WHAT WE OFFER:
Our W2 employees can expect the following benefits:

• Competitive pay
• Health/Dental Insurance
• Group Life Insurance
• 401K
• HSA/FSA
• Pre-Tax Transportation Program
• Generous Paid Time Off/Holiday Policy

MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Math, Sciences, Engineering or Computer Science and 5 years of relevant experience, with increasing independence and complexity of assignments.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in performing requirements gathering and business analysis, producing written documentation of requirements; system design and implementation.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience of requirements elicitation and documentation with participants.
• Minimum 3 years’ working experience performing application testing, developing and executing written test scripts, documenting, tracking, communicating, and reporting defects utilizing testing tools such as Jira, quality center, or rationale.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in developing business requirements by translating the needs, expectations, constraints, and interfaces into a format understandable to both clients and technologists, using various methods (e.g., brainstorming, document analysis, facilitated meetings, focus groups, interface analysis, interviews, observation, prototyping, requirements workshops, reverse engineering, survey questionnaire by asking the right questions to surface essential requirements information).
• Minimum 5 years’ experience working to establish criteria for evaluation and acceptance of requirements, manage requirements scope, obtain commitment to the requirements from the project participants.
• Able to identify project work and requirements inconsistencies during defect and requirements management and communication.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in requirement analysis and validation, analyzes requirements to ensure that they are complete, feasible, realizable, and verifiable. Provide the capability to identify key requirements that have a strong influence on cost, schedule, functionality, risk, or performance.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience analyzing requirements and representing the requirements textually as well as via visual models or graphical form, to communicate the requirements effectively to the required audience.

DESIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• Prior work with New York State.

SCOPE OF SERVICES:

• Analyze existing system documentation and related artifacts to elicit detailed requirements.
• Analyze and understand as-is business processes and systems sufficiently to establish to-be workflows and designs.
• Liaise with relevant stakeholders, including subject matter experts (SMEs), executive teams, managers, program directors, and end users to meet the business needs of the project.
• Conduct requirements gathering, validation, and rationalization processes.
• Collaborate with the HESC team on requirements definition to confirm that system requirements align with state and federal standards and strategy.
• Evaluate project timelines and priorities.
• Adhere to internal controls, guidelines, and procedures pertaining to the system’s development life cycle.
• Provide guidance to application development resource(s), through product backlogs, user stories, roadmaps, sprint plans, and related artifacts.
• Ensure application development resource(s) understand the features and enhancements that need to be developed and deployed to meet the business needs of the project.
• Support software validation through user acceptance and similar test strategies.
• Develop test scenarios and test cases for system, integration and UAT using requirements, process flows and use cases/user stories.
• Test system functionality and document test results.
• Assist with change control and release planning for system bug fixes, enhancements, and upgrades.
• Participate in data migration planning, analysis, and cleansing, working closely with DBA’s, vendor and HESC Business owners.
• Provide project management support as needed.

UNIVERSAL Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $75.00 - $120.00 per hour

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Albany, NY 12207: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

• Do you have prior experience working with New York State?

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• performing requirements gathering and business analysis: 5 years (Required)
• producing written documentation of requirements: 5 years (Required)
• system design and implementation: 5 years (Required)
• requirements elicitation and documentation with participants: 5 years (Required)
• performing application testing and developing: 3 years (Required)
• executing written test scripts: 3 years (Required)
• documenting, tracking, communicating, and reporting defects: 3 years (Required)
• testing tools including Jira, quality center, and rationale: 3 years (Required)
• translating needs/expectations/constraints/interfaces: 5 years (Required)
• managing requirements scope: 5 years (Required)
• requirement analysis and validation: 5 years (Required)
• analyzing and representing requirements textually/visually: 5 years (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Albany, NY 12207

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