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Description of Work:

The System Analyst (SA) will support key initiatives within SSA projects. The SA will work closely with SSA’s business partner and SMEs in the definition of business requirements, technical requirements, design documents, testing/validation, and technical writing. The SA will collect information to analyze and evaluate existing or proposed systems, perform research, plan, propose solutions, advocate software and systems, coordinate the problem-solving process, and ensure that the business standards and business/functional requirements are met and documented. The SA will support testing/validation activities including documenting test plans and test scenarios, identifying and creating test data, executing validation scripts, identifying and documenting defects, and working with the development team to resolve issues. Additional responsibilities include:

Additional responsibilities include:

• Provide analytical and technical support to enable design, development, validation, integration, and implementation of software applications.
• Work in an agile environment to collaborate with self-organizing, cross-functional teams for software development.
• Provide technical recommendations/solutions to complex problems.
• Provide support to analyze the modern architecture and development environment.
• Elicit and analyze user, functional, non-functional, Section 508, and other detailed requirements/acceptance criteria for applications and interfaces.
• Provide support for creating technical documentation including technical specifications and user guides.
• Design/develop system diagrams and presentation materials using industry standards and formats for various technical and management forums.
• Collaborate with developers to translate business requirements into technical stories.
• Provide support in development of documentation and presentations of demos for each sprint or software work-package to stakeholders. 

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 minimum 11 years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience working in Agile Scrum and Kanban projects and using VersionOne as a Systems Analyst to elicit and document requirements and technical specifications including User Stories, Technical Stories, Detailed Functional Requirements, and Detailed Design Specifications.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience supporting User Interface and database manual validation activities including documenting test plans and test scenarios, identifying/creating test data, executing test cases/test scenarios, and identifying/documenting defects.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working with relational databases such as DB2, including hands on experience with developing SQL queries.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working with API’s and testing tools such as SoapUI.
• 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.

• Experience with developing complex SQL queries to support manual backend validation.
• Experience with process flow documentation creation, presentation and conducting trainings.
• 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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