The Business Analyst will support the $TARS Application within the Office of Information
Technology and will be responsible for interfacing with the Office of Child Support Services to
review requirements, lead JAD sessions, schedule meetings, prepare test plans, and create
system requirement documents for use by system analyst to produce detail design documents for
specific projects.

Job Responsibilities:

Writes and maintains test plans based on software requirements and design documents

Participates in the development of change control standards and procedures that appropriately
fit the needs of the technical team and updates these procedures as the needs change.

Verifies that system requirements are traceable, consistent, complete, and testable.

Writes checklist to track all components involved in application changes

Performs requirements, design and code walk through /reviews as requested

Recommends corrective action to ensure compliance with test plans.

Develops and maintains comprehensive documentation on all standards and ensures that the
information is appropriately published and distributed

Verifies that software applications perform in accordance with system requirements and
specifications

Tests software applications for concrete, consistent, observable results.

Tests new change control and testing tools to ensure proper installation and maintenance and to
measure tool performance

Verifies function, performance, integration, and acceptance test results are in accordance with
application and departmental standards

Measures the severity of failures and defects in accordance with test plan guidelines.

Accurately and thoroughly documents application performance failures and defects during each
quality review session.

Clearly and accurately communicates test results to programming staff and/or appropriate
management staff.

Regularly enters issues/defects related to the test life cycle or change control environment
into applicable tracking system