Business Analyst & Tester

• Leading efforts to enhance enterprise system(s)/sub-system(s) changes

• Performing detailed analysis, functional design, and testing activities

• Supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with program Subject-Matter Experts (SMEs)

• Facilitating and leading Joint Application Requirements (JAR) and Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions

• Developing and executing functional test plans for change requests, defect fixes, and Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards

• Status reporting, documenting 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.

• 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.

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.

• 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 CalPERS via regular scheduled meetings and review of documentation.

• Documentation to include best practices and lessons learned.

• Twenty (20) years in project work and technical writing to include: detailed analysis, development and maintenance of business requirements, technical requirements, use cases and design documents.

• Twenty (20) years’ experience in project work in the Business Progress Reengineering (BPR) arena; at least fifteen (15) years of said experience must have been mapping the current state of a business process and analyzing the business process to find gaps.

• Twenty (20) years’ experience in project work in facilitating Joint Application Requirements (JAR) and Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions with project Subject Matter Experts and other technical staff.

• Must have a minimum of fifteen (15) years of experience in Oracle 19C writing and troubleshooting SQL code to design back-end queries for data set-up and verification.

• Fifteen (15) years’ experience performing system test duties; writing scripts, executing scripts, creating test cases and test data, reviewing test results; also assisting with User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

• Experience with Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards and BI reports in Power BI Platform. 

• Experience with Figma, Microsoft Visio, Service Now, Sharepoint, Jira, Confluence and qTest. 

• Experience working with public pension systems or experience with Governmental Retirement Benefits and Health Programs functions.