Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst (Medicaid - Health Care Industry)

Job Location: Tallahassee FL (candidates local to FL will be preferred)

Job Duration: 12+ Months Contract

At a minimum, the Consultant shall:

• Provide project management skills with proven ability to work within and facilitate cross functional teams and work groups.
• Manage Business Analyst roles based on overall scheduling across all modules.
• Adapt to changes in daily work plans based on customer support needs.
• Possess advanced interpersonal skills, including verbal, written, facilitation, mediation, negotiation, collaboration, and presentation skills, as well as the ability to communicate effectively with individuals at all levels of the organization.
• Work on multiple projects and tasks concurrently and adhere to timelines within a fast paced, changing environment.
• Assist business area liaisons in the facilitation and execution of user acceptance testing.
• Capture and document metrics in support of the user acceptance testing and recommend improvements.
• Create and manage SQL queries and analyze data to respond to ad hoc requests, troubleshoot, test, or investigate anomalies, as needed.
• Possess using the following software: Jira, Query Surge, PostgreSQL, SoapUI, and Microsoft Office products, primarily Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Word, and Visio.
• Produce or coordinate the production of business cases, high-level and detailed functional requirements for development or enhancement of information systems.
• Participate in post-implementation quality assurance, issue triage, issue resolution, and production support.
• Coordinate with the functional owner and developers to research anomalies, identify root cause, and troubleshoot through resolution. Report and document defects in Jira .
• Define application software requirements and ensure compliance to those requirements through quality testing and evaluation of software releases.
• Assess current testing processes; recommend and implement process improvements, including automation where practical.
• Provide estimates for testing and requirements analysis.
• Ensure that system documentation is kept up to date including configuration management database entries, application portfolio documents, flowcharts, and other officially approved system documentation artifacts.
• Assist in the completion of status reporting and escalation of issues to management.
• Review the SIT test cases for all the testing types, test results and provides feedback.
• Monitor adherence to the test schedule.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• 5+ years of IT experience.
• 5+ years of experience in process engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in business analysis.
• 8+ years of experience with performing data quality assurance tasks.
• 5+ years of Medicaid experience .
• 8+ years of experience with SQL databases.
• Extensive knowledge and experience leveraging both IT solutions and business process improvements.
• Experience working on large, complex projects that have enterprise-wide impact.
• Experience working in multi-client and multi-vendor environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; and strong collaboration skills.
• Ability to leverage remote collaboration tools efficiently and effectively.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills; balancing strategic alignment with technology roadmap and emerging industry trends with practical delivery.
• Ability to execute multiple tasks efficiently and effectively.
• Ability to effectively conduct meetings, both formal and informal.
• Requires minimal direction from leadership .