Programmer Analyst - #156807

Programmer Analyst 6

1 Year W2 Contract

Lansing, Michigan

Job Responsibilities

- Ensure project alignment with DTMB Strategic Plans.

- Provide content approval and validate estimates for the entire
schedule of the project for the Project Manager to ensure compliance
with the SUITE Project Management Methodology (PMM) and the Systems
Engineering Methodology (SEM).

- Facilitate requirements gathering/meetings with clients to gather
requirements (traditional waterfall and agile) for all IT solutions
and to identify impacted business processes and determine best
process and IT solution integration.

- Lead artifact reviews with peers, system specialists, Enterprise
Security and other DTMB entities to ensure IT solutions and
applications adhere to DTMB and agency policies, standards or
guidelines.

- Participate in Solutions Design Team meetings and assist in creation
of the Enterprise Architecture Solution Assessment (EASA)

- Responsible for development of training content and facilitate
training.

- Approves application-wide integration, performance, system or user
acceptance test plans.

- Validate test data and test results.

- Differentiate between defects and new requirements and initiate
change requests as necessary.

- Develop and monitor defect tracking logs and facilitate problem
resolution.

- Review and approve project management documents.

- Serves as Agency Services liaison to outside consultants.

- Serve as a liaison between DTMB and the client concerning
application requests, standards, requirements, and other program and
project matters.

- Develop and maintain an effective communication plan with DTMB,
vendors and agency staff relating to project level metrics.

- Document and analyze business processes.

- Develop System diagram and Dataflow diagrams for Request for
Proposal (RFP) documentation.

- Collaborate with Product Owner to write clear and concise agile user
stories with acceptance criteria using BDD or Gherkin format
(Given/When/then).

- Assist Product Owner in prioritizing the product backlog based on
business value, risk and dependencies.

- Conduct sprint ceremonies like backlog grooming, sprint planning,
sprint demo, and refinement sessions.

- Develop and maintain Test Plans, Test Cases and Requirement
Traceability Matrix (RTM).

- Perform Functional and Regression testing and facilitate User
Acceptance Testing.

Experience & Skills: Required

- A bachelor’s degree in a business-related field such as business
administration, information technology, finance, or marketing (or a
similar field).

- Strong experience working in Agile/Hybrid environments, translating
business requirements into user stories with acceptance criteria.

- Ability to break down complex business requirements into smaller
user stories for development teams, while ensuring that technical
constraints, limitations and dependencies are considered.

- Experience working on projects involving vendor owned, designed and
hosted solutions.

- Excellent verbal and written communication.

- The preferred candidate must possess and demonstrate strong
troubleshooting.

Experience & Skills: Preferred

- 4+ years Business Analyst or similar experience

- 4+ years Agile experience

- Experience using Azure Devops or similar tool for work item
management and source control.

- Recent experience of working in an Agile development environment,
e.g. Scrum or Kanban

- Experience with Microsoft tool such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio

- Experience with Oracle or SQL Servers