The State of Michigan is looking for: Business Analyst 5 - Senior BA

Top Skills & Years of Experience:
• 8+ years of business analysis experience for complex computer systems.
• 8+ years of developing functional requirements for development projects.
• 8+ years of developing and implementing test plans and test cases.
• 8+ years of creating, updating and maintaining systems documentation.
• 8+ years of creating training plans and materials.
• 5+ years implemented Agile development processes including test driven development.
• Experience with Azure DevOps or a similar requirements and test case tracking application.
• Experience working with HIPAA Data.

Will close submissions on: 12/30 at 10am EST.
Interview Process: Candidates submitted must be willing to come onsite (Lansing, MI) for interviews. Manager may request virtual and/or onsite interviews. A screenshot photo of candidate will be required for any interviews as well as a vendor present at beginning of any MS Teams interview to validate candidate. Interviews will likely be requested for the week of 1/6/25.

On-site: Hybrid position - Onsite 2 days per week - REQUIRED. CANDIDATES MUST BE LOCAL TO MID-MICHIGAN. Hiring manager is not currently interested in candidates who will need to relocate to accept offer. NO REMOTE ONLY OPTION.

Duration: 1 year with possible extension.

The position is responsible for providing ongoing maintenance and support for Women Infant and Children (WIC), Kindergarten Oral Health Assessment (KOHA), Early Hearing and Detection and Intervention (EHDI), and other MDHHS applications supported within our department. These applications are part of the Bureau of Public Health program area. The resource is integral to supporting and improving MDHHS automated processes, streamlining critical business processes, data integrity, SEM/SUITE compliance, and securing the applications. As a lead, the resource participates in a variety of assignments that provides for the enhancement, integration, maintenance, and implementation of projects. The resource also provides applicaition oversight to business analysts in the team that support other applications in the Public Health Area. Not having a resource on staff will delay ongoing and future project work within the Public Health area and lead to DTMB inability to deliver on priotized enhancements and maintenance from our partners in MDHHS.

• Write high level functional requirement documents.
• Perform business requirements analysis conduct gap analysis and develop well defined detailed functional requirements.
• Execute full software development life cycle (SDLC) including experience in gathering requirements. and writing functional/technical specifications for complex projects.
• Develop functional design documents and work with stakeholders for review and approval.
• Develop user stories and task breakdowns for agile development projects
• Experience developing, prototypes, mockup for users review and approval.
• Exposure to flowcharts, screen layouts and documentation to ensure logical flow of the system requirements.
• Experience working on agile projects.
• Assist with Enterprise Architecture Solution Assessment (EASA), Hosting document and Firewall Rules.
• Assist with design and documenting IT solutions that are State of Michigan standard technology.
• Draft Local Change Board documents.
• Draft documentation for Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Proposal (RFP) such as IT Readiness Checklists.
• Design, develop, and implement test plans and test reports for applications or subsystems.
• Create or collect test data and execute approved tests to determine the accuracy of program logic to produce desired results.
• Assist with UAT Testing, Test cases, Post Implementation testing.
• Assist in differentiating between defects and new requirements.
• Provide defect tracking log entry information.
• Assist with implementation of Request for Change (RFC - application changes, infrastructure changes, etc.).
• Maintain/update system documentation as a result of system upgrades.
• Monitors applications during peak production times.
• Provide application support for business client applications that are maintained by DTMB.
• Deliverying product and service based upon the core concepts of business analysis.