Senior Business Analyst/Quality Assurance Consultant: DC Area

Hi,
I saw your profile on a jobsite and would like to know whether you would be interested in a project opportunity with one of our clients for the below mentioned position. If so, Please send your updated resume with mentioned skill sets as soon as possible. Will appreciate if you can include your salary expectation.

Details are as follows:

Title                          : Senior Business Analyst/Quality Assurance Consultant

Requirement            : Federal Grant Management

Location                   : Washington DC

Duration                   : long term

Description:  

Required / Desired Skills                                                                                  Required / Desired            Amount of Experience              Expertise Rating   

Business Process Documentation                                                                      Required                                  8 Years                                    3 - Expert 
Federal Grants Management                                                                            Required                                  5 Years                                    2 - Proficient 
Experience with web based applications                                                           Required                                  8 Years                                    3 - Expert 
IT Systems Assessment                                                                                    Required                                  8 Years                                    3 - Expert 
Microsoft Visio                                                                                                Required                                  5 Years                                    2 - Proficient 
Microsoft Word                                                                                               Required                                  8 Years                                    2 - Proficient 
Experience in strategic marketing of technical products, including branding        Required                                   5 Years                                    3 - Expert 
Knowledge of ops/server ops policies & procedures for tier 3 maint support     Required                                  5 Years                                    3 - Expert

Responsibilities include developing, planning and executing communications, organizational change management, and training strategies and test plans and scripts processes to ensure the readiness and acceptance by District-wide users and stakeholders of the Statewide Longitudinal Education Data Warehouse (SLED) technology solution and its component applications. In addition, advise the SLED Director on communication and organizational change management planning, budgeting and policy decisions related to SLED implementation and user readiness programs. Participate in business process analysis and re-engineering efforts, support change management and assist in the facilitation of data quality management groups, work with the cross-LEA governance committees and work groups, and manage administrative responsibilities related to the convening of additional advisory work groups. 
Responsible include: 
•Analyze the potential impact on end-users of automation of data and processes, the movement toward standard data collection and reporting, and the implementation of data validation/verification practices to ensure data integrity; 
•Define policies and procedures that clarify agency-wide data owners and stewards’ roles and responsibilities related to federal and state reporting elements in the SLED; 
•Conduct information collection sessions with different stakeholders such as OSSE managers, external stakeholders, teachers, principals, managers and data-entry staff to assess challenges and issues they experience in entering, managing, and reporting data for all reports and analyses; 
•Identify stakeholder readiness, needs, and risks, and develop appropriate mitigation strategies related to establishing and maintaining procedures for implementing the Unique Student Identifier, the Teacher and Student Tracking Systems, various mandated reporting requirements and data use efforts; 
•Coordinate, implement, and evaluate user training activities including stakeholder and CM communications activities; 
•Identify and remediate skills gaps in user communities’ responses to the data requirement through training and change management; and 
•Identify the need for and help to select and supervise CM staff, including administrative staff, business analysts, and data entry personnel who work within the CM functional areas, including training, business process, engineering, and communications. 
•Assist in supporting the functional and technical requirements for business process re-engineering and data migration into the new system, including, but not limited to, the following specific tasks: 
•Define process flow procedures and create diagrams that convey these procedures; 
•Analyze current business processes to detect inefficiencies and needs, and document future business processes; 
•Document current business process in publication-quality written documents; 
•Create data maps illustrating the flow of data into and from each data system; 
•Conduct impact analyses and associated business process (re)engineering activities; 
•Perform administrative tasks associated with planning, monitoring, and maintaining the change management functions and processes; 
•Assist in the development and publication of user security role mapping and data access policies; and 
•Communicate and present business processes, workflow diagrams, and data maps in ways that are understandable to teachers, principals, managers, data-entry staff at the school, local district, and state levels. 
•Support the implementation of the Unique Student Identifier solution, an initial phase of the SLED. Those tasks include, but are not limited to: 
•Data entry student information data; 
•Monitor data processes that are implemented for the USI solution; 
•Review data submitted to the SLED to ensure data quality, integrity, and reliability across as SLED data systems; 
•Serve as a Subject Matter Expert to support LEA users of the SLED; 
•Manage data quality processes to ensure the timely delivery of required reports to State and Federal agencies 
•Perform administrative tasks to support the SLED Director and Management Team during the SLED project implementation.

Thanks and Regards 
Ankit Saxena 
Team Lead - Technology Consulting

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