Business Analyst & Tester

Position: -Business Analyst & Tester
Location:-  Sacramento, CA 95811
Duration: - Contract
Note- In-person interview required at Sacramento, CA

Job description:-

• The consultant will undertake duties as a business analyst and tester for the (MCP) System.
• The consultant will lead efforts for enhancing my system and its sub-system(s) changes by performing detailed analysis, functional design, triaging and testing activities in support for System test and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with program Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).
• The work primarily involves facilitation and leading of Joint Application Requirements (JAR) and Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions with SMEs from program and technical teams to ensure their requirement needs are being met.
• This also includes the consultant developing and execution of functional test plans for change requests (enhancements) and defect fixes.
• The work of the business analyst/tester will also include status reporting, documenting, and maintaining as-is and to-be processes, creating and maintaining system functional documentation and business requirements documents.
• The consultant will work with the state team and undertake duties as an expert-level business analyst and tester for enterprise on-premise and cloud applications.
• The consultant will lead efforts to enhance enterprise system(s)/sub-system(s) changes by performing detailed analysis, functional design, and testing activities and support for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with the program Subject-Matter Experts (SMEs).
• The work primarily involves facilitation and leading of Joint Application Requirements (JAR) and Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions with SMEs from program and technical teams to ensure their requirements are met.
• This also includes the consultant developing and execution of functional test plans for change requests, defect fixes and Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards. The work of the business analyst/ tester will also include status reporting, documenting, and maintaining as-is and to-be processes, creating and maintaining system functional documentation and business requirements documents.

The scope of this project encompasses the following deliverable base tasks:

• Deliverable 1: Analysis and Design.
• Lead analysis and design efforts for enhancing various enterprise system(s) and sub-systems(s).
• 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 met.
• Create and maintain business requirements documents, design artifacts and requirements traceability matrix.
• Deliverable 2:
• Implementation, Test and Support.
• Assist test personnel with the development of test scenarios and scripts.
• Execute test scenarios and scripts, track, and document defects.
• Develop and provide test results for review.
• Collaborate with various IT and program area staff to triage defects and issues.
• Deliverable 3: Knowledge Transfer
• The contractor will provide knowledge transfer of the change requests, associated design documentation and test scripts.
• Knowledge transfer occurs via collaborative documentation, code commenting, cross- training, and job shadowing.
• Knowledge transfer takes place at via regular scheduled meetings and review of documentation.
• Documentation to include best practices and lessons learned. On an ongoing basis through the end of the contract, all work products and deliverables (project status reports, business process, triage incident reports with resolution, meeting minutes, test cases, test outcomes) have to be discussed with the contract manager to ensure that all the information is documented and placed in a file share. The contract manager will schedule knowledge transfer sessions at regular intervals to ensure that all the work production details have been documented, and the knowledge has been transferred to the state personnel.
• Security Awareness Training Requirements The Information Security Office (ISOF) requires all contractors and consultants granted access assets to provide certified completion of security awareness training before work begins and to re-certify training annually thereafter.
• Consultant security awareness training will not be provided.
• Each contractor will be responsible for obtaining and completing the training through their employer before the commencement of work. For contracting firms, the following topics must be addressed, at a minimum:
• Threats: Malware, phishing & social engineering
• Password Policies: Best practices; 2FA and how to use them.
• Web Protection: What to look for; what to avoid.
• Email Protection: What to look for; what to avoid
• Preventative Measures: Best practices for security at home and business.
• Privacy: Best practices to protect confidential, sensitive, proprietary information.
• Evidence of completion, with the above topics covered, must be sent back to validate that the training meets industry standards outlined in the covered topics above.