Business Analyst/QA Tester - Retirement Pension domain

HHS Technology Group is a valued and trusted systems integration partner for several departments within a number of State Governments. The intense growth and tremendous financial forecast we are experiencing at HHS Technology Group can largely be attributed to our successes on these initiatives. HHS Technology Group’s flagship product, Discover your Provider (DyP) is a provider relations/provider enrollment solution. Components of this modular software can be re-purposed or built upon to deliver cloud based technical web services solutions.HHS Tech Group employees enjoy a very comprehensive and competitive benefit package:• Fully paid dental, vision, life insurance, and disability insurance. • Generous 401k matching program fully vested from beginning.• Generously sponsored Medical Insurance through Cigna (PPO or HSA – with company match)HHS Tech Group seeks to hire an experienced Agile Business Analyst/QA Tester to lead efforts for enhancing the myClient (MCP) system along with performing analysis, design, testing, documentation, implementation, functional enhancement, and maintenance of the system. The work primarily involves the consultant acting as a subject matter expert to perform a range of work, from moderate to highly complex, time sensitive, and critical work for the MCP system. This includes all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and maintenance lifecycle including support for User Acceptance Test (UAT). In addition, the consultant will also act as the technical subject matter expert on complex projects. The consultant will participate with other team members on projects of a complex nature or broad scope. The consultant will submit to the contract manager a written weekly and monthly status report as part of this agreement and provide knowledge transfer to State staff before the end of the contract. Other responsibilities to include ensuring that all work performed under this agreement will comply with Client Information Technology Services Branch (ITSB) policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines.Tasks include:

• Facilitate and lead Joint Application Requirements (JAR) and Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with customer representatives, developers, testers and other technical staff to ensure the customer’s needs are being met.
• Document and maintain as-is and to-be process flow documentation including business activities and diagrams.
• Create and maintain business requirements document, design artifacts and requirements traceability matrix.
• Analyze business scenarios and identify impacts to staff and customers.
• Work with team members to ensure that the designed products and components work together to meet the objectives and performance goals as defined by the requirements.
• Perform analysis and development of IT business processes to ensure adherence to sound business process and IT best practices for internal and external customer support and communications.
• Attend change advisory board (CAB) meetings and ensure all enhancements to the system are properly documented and evaluated prior to going to CAB.
• Collaborate with IT and business program support staff to develop detailed test plans which include integration, system, and User Acceptance Test.

• Collaborate with IT and business program support staff to develop detailed test plans which include integration, system, COTS upgrades, and User Acceptance Test

• Align test plan, design and execution with the Enterprise Test Office methodology, standards, policies, and procedures
• Conduct peer reviews
• Schedule and coordinate batch jobs
• Execute test scenarios and scripts, track and document defects; develop and provide test results for

• Collaborate with various IT and program area team members to define and document Level of Effort assessments for testing the applications supporting Pension and Health lines of business
• Collaborate with various IT and program area staff to triage defects and issues
• Participate as an active member of the testing team to ensure the solution delivered is tested properly and traceable to the documented requirements
• Provide detailed documented technical knowledge transfer to ETO staff on the test planning, preparation, execution activities and processes
• Attend and/or facilitate meetings as needed
• Provide weekly status reports and inform management of any issues that require escalation
• Understand the Client system and Client technical environments
• Utilize the following test tools: HP Application Lifecycle Management, IBM ClearCase, and IBM ClearQuest