Job Listing Information

Business Analyst/Quality Assurance
  • 06-Jan-2022 to 20-Jan-2022 (UTC)
  • Harrisburg, PA, USA
  • Full Time
  • Long Term Contract Length
  • 37.5 Weekly Hours

All positions are telework positions and are required to report on site at the Rachel Carson State Office Building or the Department of Agriculture as instructed by the hiring manager at any given time. Can your candidate comply? 

The resource in this role will serve as a Business Analyst/Quality Assurance Specialist and is responsible for the set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization, and to recommend solutions and capture requirements that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
- Experience in working on a Scrum Team or similar Agile Development Team.
- Experience with Automated Testing practices and software, such as Selenium.
- Strong organization and writing skills.  
- Willing to assist with training, developing user guides or other Business Analyst activities when necessary
- Experience creating user stories, tasks, and bugs in Azure DevOps Studio, or similar software.
- Strong organization and writing skills.
- Communicates clearly and works with users and client as necessary.
- Experience in working on a Scrum Team. 
- Experience participating in Facilitated Workshops for requirements analysis.
- Experience creating workflows using formal notation such as the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN).
- Knowledge of formal requirements gathering methodologies.
- Experience developing Business Requirements - project initiation document, what the needed achievements will be, and the quality measures.
- Experience developing Functional requirements - describe what the system, process, or product/service must do in order to fulfill the business requirements.
- Experience developing User (stakeholder) requirements - are a very important part of the deliverables, the needs of the stakeholders will have to be correctly interpreted. This deliverable can also reflect how the product will be designed, developed, and define how test cases must be formulated.
- Experience developing Quality-of-service (non-functional) requirements - re requirements that do not perform a specific function for the business requirement but are needed to support the functionality.  For example: performance, scalability, quality of service (QoS), security and usability.
- Experience developing Report Specifications - define the purpose of a report, its justification, attributes and columns, owners and runtime parameters.

Required / Desired Skills
Experience with requirements gathering - Required 4 Years
Experience developing Test Plans from Business Requirements documentation - Required 4 Years
Experience conducting full system testing with overall functionality - Required 4 Years
Experience using Selenium or similar testing software - Desired
Prior Commonwealth experience – Desired