Systems Analyst (Closed)

Description of Work:

The System Analyst (SA) will support key initiatives within OEIS, DDE. The SA will work closely with the SSA’s business partner and SMEs in the definition of functional requirements, testing/validation, training, data flow and workflow analysis. A systems analyst collects information to analyze and evaluate existing or proposed systems. They perform research on any reported problem, plans, proposes a solutions, advocates software and systems, coordinates the problem solving process, and ensures that the business standards and business/functional requirements being addressed and documented. They are also quite familiar with a host of computer programming languages, operating systems, and computer hardware platforms as they often translate client's requests into technical specifications. In this way, systems analysts are a kind of link between Developers and everyone else in the agile team.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Provide analytical and technical support to enable design, development, validation, integration, and implementation.
• Provide support for creating technical documentation.
• Provide support for creating detail functional requirements documents.
• Ability to translate / manage requirements in ALM.
• Provide critical technical recommendations/solutions for complex problems.
• Provide technical support to analyze the modern architecture and development environment.
• Perform system testing (manual) and validation, support UAT efforts
• Design/Develop system diagrams and presentation materials using industry standards, guidelines and formats for various technical and management forums.
• Elicit and analyze user, functional, non-functional, Section 508, and other detailed requirements for Online, Mobile/Telephone applications and Interfaces.
• Collaborate with programmers to translate business requirements design and system specifications.
• Provide support with organizing Sprints and assistance with team cohesiveness.
• Provide support in development of documentation and presentations of demos for each sprint or software work-package to stakeholders. 
• Collaborate with self-organizing, cross-functional teams for software development.

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum knowledge, skills, abilities needed.

• Bachelor’s Degree and 7 years of relevant work experience; Masters and 5 years of relative experience; or a minimum11 years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience of system analysis, testing (manual), and validation experience across the system development lifecycle.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience working as System Analyst using tools such as Microsoft Office Suite, ALM, XML, and TOAD.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience conducting business analysis, data analysis, developing, and documenting system requirements, database requirements and providing manual testing when required.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience of system analysis, testing (manual), and validation experience across the system development lifecycle.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working on mainframe, SQL and Relational Databases such as DB2, Oracle, and SQL Server.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working in Agile/Scrum methodology projects, VersionOne.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working with API’s and testing tools such as SoapUI.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working in ALM managing and recording requirements.
• Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics to management and non-technical audiences, as well as interface with the customer on a daily basis.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a US Public Trust clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

Candidates with these skills will be given preferential consideration.

• Prior SSA experience a plus.
• Mainframe experience
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with process flow documentation creation, presentation and conducting trainings.
• Prior experience supporting Web Technologies. Ability to quickly understand government specific architectures, existing and proposed, and provide/propose solutions for technical problems.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills along with the ability to effectively interface with the team, stakeholders, and developers.
• Self-starter, highly motivated individual, and a team player who adapts to a dynamic work environment Understanding and developing of mobile/telephonic applications and interfaces.

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