Systems Analyst / RTLS - New York - DA5034x

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Listing Info

The systems analyst will engage with all departments within the organization to understand both business process and system design in context of the end use applications of the system and provide optimization models on (a) systems configuration and (b) user training. This position will provide guidance concerning project specifications, software development, and troubleshooting techniques. In addition, this role will be a key contributor in the development of technical training and materials.

Requirements

The system analyst role in the development cycle is to take high level requirements and process them, to provide technical specification that can be used by the development team. The system analyst is provided with high-level requirements either directly by the end users or by project / product manager. Once provided with the high level requirements, he/she is responsible then to take the following steps:

  • Validate the requirement to ensure it is complete and covers all desired functionality
  • Ensure that the requirement is feasible and does not include contradictions
  • Check that the requirement is consistent with other requirements and with company guidelines (such as security and compliance)
  • Provide the following main products (all or some, depends on the case) based on the verified requirement:
  • Complete documentation of the requirement
  • Analysis of all scenarios derived from the requirement (usually expressed as use-case diagrams and describes human oriented interactions)
  • Analysis of "flows" in the requirement - programmatic flow of actions that covers specific activity (such as processing a single message from a device)
  • Specifications of required user-interfaces (screens, views, forms, reports, etc.)
  • Specifications of integration with other systems (usually BI, CRM, etc.)
  • Specification of required database tables and queries

    The system analyst will act as the single point of contact with the development team and all other groups within the organization. The system analyst will need to be familiar with a variety of programming languages, operating systems, and computer hardware platforms and will be responsible to write user requests into technical specifications.

    • Skills Required

    Plan a system flow from the ground up.

    Interact with customers to learn and document requirements that are then used to produce technical requirements documents.

    Write technical requirements from a critical phase.

    Interact with designers to understand software limitations.

    Help programmers during system development, ex: provide use cases, flowcharts or even Database design.

    Perform system testing.

    Document requirements or contribute to user manuals.

    Whenever a development process is conducted, the system analyst is responsible for designing components and providing that information to the developer.

    Candidate Requirements

    Bachelors Degree in a Computer Science or related technical discipline

    8-10 yrs of successful delivery of system analysis including defining functional requirements, functional specifications for technical components, as well as preparing activity, sequence and data flow diagrams

    Demonstrated history of strong communication and collaboration abilities in a highly matrixed environment

    Strong Planning abilities - demonstrated history of setting milestone dates for a group of project tasks and ensuring their completion.

    Strong distributed systems analysis capabilities

    Focused on requirements analysis, down to a complete and valid Use Case

    Ability to produce clear and consistent requirement docs and specs, which combines literal descriptions, use cases charts, UI sketches and other means

    Specific experience with web applications and client-server systems (a plus)

    If you are interested in this opportunity and feel you meet the given requirements, please email your resume to dt@staffpointe.com or fax it to 877-878-1970 Attn: Dan. Please reference job# DA5034x


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