Software Analyst - Gonzer Associates, L. J.
Albany, NY
About the Job
L.J. Gonzer Associates is looking for individuals to join our pool of qualified candidates for potential assignment as a Software Analyst. Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Working closely with the Portfolio BA Team, project manager, ITS BAS manager, technical team members and other project stakeholders to provide guidance throughout the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Working as liaison to stakeholders and Subject Matter Experts to elicit, analyze, communicate, validate and verify the requirements for changes to current business processes, policies and information systems and for the development of new business processes, policies and information systems.
- Creating as-is and to-be business process flows to ensure that the implemented business process and supporting software meets agency needs, as well as provide an effective and efficient means of referral and tracking.
- Conducting requirements workshops and JAD sessions with agency subject matter experts as one of the many techniques to be used to elicit requirements.
- Creating business requirements documents (BRD), context diagrams, system “as-is” and “to be” states, system specifications, use cases and workflow diagrams, report and screen mockups, swim lane diagrams, and prototypes.
- Providing development team with clearly articulated artifacts, and ensure development team understanding.
- Ensuring that artifacts required by ITS governance process and Secure Systems Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) are created and support the project scope.
- Managing requirements through the life of the contract using a requirements management plan and traceability to ensure coverage between the source of requirements and their test case(s) it will be tested by.
- 6 years of experience performing requirements elicitation. Researching and understanding the stakeholder's business needs using a variety of analysis techniques and converting those into verified and validated functional and non-functional requirements for development.
- 6 years of experience creating and maintaining software development artifacts for communication of requirements, including context diagrams, textual use cases, swim lane diagrams, report specifications, wireframes, user interface specifications, and non-functional requirements specifications.
- 6 years of experience facilitating requirement workshops, JAD sessions and structured walkthroughs, practicing effective communication to ensure requirements are understood, conveyed, and met.
- 5 years of experience creating test plans/cases, managing defects with development teams, and working with users on User Acceptance Testing.
- 5 years of experience managing requirements throughout the Requirements Management Lifecycle, including creation and execution of a Requirements Management Plan, Requirements Traceability, establishing requirements baselines and managing requirements change control.
- CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional) certification by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA).
Source : Gonzer Associates, L. J.