Business Analyst – Expert

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst – Expert to support multiple active and upcoming technology project initiatives. The selected candidate will work across project teams to provide strong business analysis, requirements management, testing strategy, procurement support, and vendor delivery oversight.

The Business Analyst will be responsible for analyzing business processes and capabilities, gathering and documenting requirements, supporting testing and go-live activities, facilitating procurement-related specification development, and assisting with change management and project administration.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in business analysis, requirements management, test planning and execution management, as well as the ability to work with multiple stakeholders and vendors.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage business analysis activities and projects with clearly defined deliverables.
• Lead business analysis work from requirements gathering through solution delivery.
• Identify and document business processes, issues, value levers, metrics, and organizational capabilities.
• Collect, organize, analyze, and interpret business and project data.
• Document and analyze as-is business capabilities and processes.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews and workshops to gather and validate business requirements.
• Develop clear, detailed, and traceable business and functional requirements.
• Facilitate requirements discussions with business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and project leadership.
• Develop and support testing strategies, test plans, and test execution activities.
• Coordinate testing activities and track testing progress, issues, and outcomes.
• Support procurement-related requirements gathering and specification development.
• Facilitate development and validation of procurement specifications.
• Evaluate business, operational, financial, and strategic information to support project decisions.
• Conduct industry, competitive, and State-level analysis.
• Support business case development and market research activities.
• Perform benchmarking and comparative analysis where required.
• Support system go-live activities, including:
  • Data conversion
  • Support desk activities
  • Site support
  • Training delivery
  • Implementation logistics
  • Go-live readiness
• Support organizational change management and communications programs.
• Perform PMO-related activities, including:
  • Project time tracking
  • Work plan updates
  • Status reporting
  • Service metric reporting
  • Project documentation
  • Project administration
• Monitor vendor deliverables and support successful vendor implementation.
• Identify risks, issues, dependencies, and gaps and communicate them to project leadership.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the project lifecycle.