Wednesday, 22 January 2014

[6036MSCRMCV] MMIS System Analyst :: Columbia, SC

Hi,

 

Phone Hire

 

Location: Columbia, SC

Duration: 12+ months

Rate: Open

 

Skills Needed:

The Systems Analyst will work with various internal teams including the Program Management/Project Managers and SMEs to create business and technical project artifacts that will be utilized internally by the project team, executive management, agency staff and/or externally by vendors, CMS or other stakeholders.

In addition, the Systems Analyst is responsible for establishing, managing, monitoring and reporting all aspects of quality associated with information system integration.

We are looking for candidates who are highly organized, can work independently in a fast-paced environment and produce multiple quality deliverables with varying deadlines. Candidates should be self-starters and creative problem solvers and have the flexibility to learn new products and technologies quickly.

Essential Responsibilities
• Serve as a functional subject matter expert in Enterprise System and other applications. Work with internal customers to analyze and identify business process and system issues and enhancements for production environments;
• Gather requirements and develop functional business specifications;
• Work alongside the SMEs to understand the goals/objectives of the project in order to assist in creating deliverables and supporting project documentation
• Participate in the design, coding, testing and documentation of new or existing applications;
• Complete specific team task activities as documented on the Work Plan;
• Support all project team members with application information on systems knowledge designing, building, testing and activating the application database;
• Analyze business processes to ensure proper system configuration
• Develop and maintain models, documentation of business, system requirements and configuring system accordingly
• Document and maintain all required system design and build documents
• Contribute to preparation of testing scripts, materials, performing unit, system and integrated testing tasks
• Develop application-specific training curriculums and materials
• Participate in change management sessions for production deployment
• Provide expertise and experience to the development of activation plans, application activation tasks and production environment readiness
• Establish a quality management program, from concept to formulation, for a very complex IT and business transformation program;
• Develop and maintain the program’s Quality Management Plan and Change Management Plan;
• Work with process owners to establish process standards and key performance measurement techniques to determine whether those standards are being met;
• Work with deliverable owners to establish deliverable standards and measurement techniques to determine whether those standards are in compliance with industry best practices and meet the desired outcomes;
• Report on the outcomes of quality assurance and quality control processes;
Mentor and train the program team on quality principles and assisting them in applying those principles to the project and functional areas under their control;
• Oversee the configuration management and release management process to ensure success;
• Oversee the test team, including the team’s processes, tools, resources, and schedule;
• Lead development of the validation and verification (V&V) matrix that assigns V&V methods (e.g., inspection, analysis, demonstration, and test) to program requirements;
• Coordinate testing and other quality management processes to ensure that they are coherent and synchronized;
• Oversee the defect management process covering all life-cycle phases;

• Participate as a key stakeholder in the program’s risk, issue, and opportunity management process;
• Assist the Program Manager and Project Manager with reporting needs to executive management and the Federal sponsor;
• Interact with internal and external organizations (i.e. vendors, State and Federal government agencies, State providers and beneficiaries, and other stakeholders);
• Participate in standup of business operations supporting Healthy Connections Prime;
• Provide recommendations on deliverables to be produced as a result of analysis/design discussions
• Work with project staff to make deliverables easy to understand
• Organize and write supporting documents when needed
• Select photographs, drawings, diagrams, and charts that increase users’ understanding
• Revise documents as new issues arise
• Provide leadership and guidance to other team members regarding Medicare and Medicaid policy related issues and the project service delivery model

Required Knowledge/Skills:
• 5 to 10 years of experience in IT development and operations;
• At least 5 years of experience in quality management other than testing;
• At least 3 years of IT testing experience;
• Working knowledge or understanding of current industry standards and best practices in Software Development, e.g. IEEE, CMMI, Agile.
• Ability to effectively work and communicate, in both oral and written, with all levels of the Department from frontline workers to executive staff as well as the vendor(s);
• Ability to properly document quality audit and monitoring and controlling activities
• Ability to interpret business process and business data models;
• Superb written and oral communication skills, including the ability to give presentations to executive management. Strong proficiency in English is required;
• Impeccable integrity. This project has very high visibility and represents a significant expenditure of public funds. Candidates must be confident with their abilities to make correct decisions and the conviction to speak out when necessary.

Preferred Requirements/Skills:

• Experience in healthcare IT
• Experience in Medicaid, Medicare,
• TRICARE, or commercial healthcare insurance
• Experience in project using enterprise architecture approaches such as TOGAF, FEAF, or MITA
• Possess a green or black belt in Lean Six Sigma methodologies

 

 

 

Thanks

Anurag

 

Anurag Tyagi

Software People Inc.

www.softwarepeople.us

anurag.tyagi@softwarepeople.us

Ph:  631-739-8810

Fax: 631-574-3122

Certifications: SBA 8a/SDB, NJ MWBE, NY MWBE, VA SWaM, DE OMWBE, MA MWBE

 

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