Systems Analyst

Missouri  ‐ Onsite
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Summary

The candidate will be responsible for performing system analyst duties

Duties will primarily focus on production support, including analysing priority emergent issues, reading and understanding existing requirements, diagnosing in multiple environments whether an issue is happening consistently and under what conditions, working with developers to convey knowledge, and doing a basic test of developed solutions to ensure they meet requirements.

In addition, as available the Systems Analyst may work on requirements for application releases, which would include interviewing customers, users, and other stakeholders, documenting requirements definition sessions, analysing documentation, maintaining the project†s analysis knowledge base, writing use cases, mocking up web-pages, and developing process flows and activity diagrams.

Candidate should be experienced with facilitating client interview sessions and directly participating in detailed analysis and data modelling discussions. The business clients for this application are geographically dispersed and much of the requirements gathering and definition phases will be performed on conference calls. Limited or no travel required (5% or less). The project team consists of a project manager, systems analysts, Java web developers, a report developer, a DBA, and an architect.

Primary Duties will include:
Analyzing emergent production support issues
Reading and understanding existing requirements
Evaluating defects to determine how they deviate from documented requirements
Facilitating defect discussion sessions with customers
Creating or updating requirements documents (Use Cases, UI specifications, Report specifications) where needed
Communicating status to management and other stakeholders
Communicating defect analysis to developers and testers
Conducting a basic test of remediated defects to ensure they align with documented requirements
Running basic SQL queries against databases to facilitate testing
Updating work tickets to ensure correct status and to document the issue and results (Tools: IBM RTC, Jira)

Occasional Duties may include:
Documenting requirements gathering sessions
Analyzing documentation
Maintaining the project analysis knowledge base
Writing use cases
Mocking up web pages
Creating report specifications
Developing process flows and activity diagrams
Maintaining technical artifacts including the requirements traceability Matrix, use cases, user interface specifications and migration plans, and other project documentation in accordance with department procedures
Contributing to test strategy and planning discussions
Performing all types of application testing
Following department policy and procedures

Required knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of this position:
At least five years experience performing Systems Analyst activities
At least one years experience as a Systems Analyst in a production support environment
A thorough understanding of software development methodologies
Some SQL experience required
Excellent facilitation and analytic skills
Experience planning tests and testing applications including functional, security, system and integration, accessibility, parallel, etc.
Excellent communications skills including both written and verbal communications and listening
Experience with configuration management tools used to apply version control to application artifacts
Experience interacting with a development team including technical and business staff
Experience developing Use Cases is preferred
Experience creating web page mockups is preferred
Bachelors degree or better preferred
Systems Analyst certification or equivalent is preferred

Start date
n.a
From
ISSG, Inc. - Information Systems Services Group
Published at
27.12.2014
Project ID:
827880
Contract type
Freelance
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