Friday, 11 May 2012

Business Analyst (2 positions being hired)|| Prior state agency experience and local candidates preferred

Kindly send your responses to austin@millenniumsoft.com. Replies to any other email will not be considered.

Location: Columbus (local candidates prefered) State agency experience Preferred
Est. Start Date: End of May
Est. Term: until 2014


Business Analyst (2 positions being hired)

The following request is for two contract resources for the Core System Project to assist with data cleanup, conversion, reporting requirements, documenting workarounds and testing. These are new positions not currently staffed. Approximately 172 hours projected for FY12. 2000 hours projected for FY13 and 1000 hours projected for FY14. The successful candidate will be a self-starter, and requires a person who is detail oriented.  Candidate must be able to work both independently and as a team member to produce on time results to meet all project deadlines.  


Candidate must have proven experience to perform the following duties:

Data Clean Up
Ø  Assist in identifying the data clean-up opportunities; identify method to clean-up the data; define the estimated time frame for manual clean up and identify the skills/resources required to extract and correct the data.
Ø  Communicate with the appropriate departments to correct the data prior to the conversion.
Ø  Help manage the clean-up process with the different areas, validating data has been corrected and is ready for conversion.
Ø  Review final products.
Identify Offline workarounds
Ø  Assist in interviewing  departments to identify all Access, Excel, SharePoint or other workarounds that have been developed to accomplish their daily tasks.
Ø  Work with the software vendor to determine how the identified workarounds will be addressed in the Core System.
Identify System Workarounds
Ø  Assist in interviewing  departments to identify workaround processes that have been developed to accomplish their daily tasks.  This includes all known system interfaces or individual interfaces employees have created to accomplish their duties.  Items such as – audit upload, etc.
Ø  Work with the software vendor to determine how the identified workarounds will be addressed in the Core System.
Identify Reports (current vs. needed)
Ø  Assist in interviewing  departments identifying existing reports.  Document how reports are utilized, if they contain all the information needed and whether any reports can be combined and or eliminated.
Ø  Identify where report data is housed, how often updated.
Ø  Identify report frequency– weekly, monthly, daily (real time/on demand reporting).
Conversion
Ø  Assist with business data mapping from legacy system to the Core System application.
Ø  Assist in writing business specifications for conversion programs.
Ø  Assist in conversion testing and validation.

Testing
Ø  Assist in writing system verification test scripts
Ø  Assist in test script execution and verification.
Ø  Support the identification and documentation of test defects.

Thank you,
Austin Smith
MillenniumSoft, Inc.
Tel:   703 672 6897