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. This Software Analyst position will perform a blend of Business Analyst and Tester activities included, but not limited to: guiding JAD sessions and other requirements elicitation activities, developing use cases and process models, creating interactive screen shots to demonstrate proposed system functionality, creating test plans and test cases, identifying functional defects, performing regression testing, assisting with UAT, and creating other quality assurance documents for the project. Tasks may include but are not limited to the following:
- Work as a liaison with stakeholders to elicit, communicate and validate the requirements for new initiatives or changes to current applications functionality as determined by stakeholders.
- Conduct analysis of business and user needs and develop business requirements documents in accordance with requirements and protocols that govern applications development and implementation.
- Create business documentation (Business Requirement documents, use cases, swim lanes, process documentation) that detail applications functionality.
- Participate in team planning sessions with technical resources to ensure that solution designs fulfill documented requirements as stipulated by program staff.
- Create and execute test scripts, scenarios, and test plans to validate technical solutions against documented business requirements.
- Execute and formally document test results, through all test environments, in a format that accurately reports the results for program's understanding and support of test acceptance.
- 7 years of experience gathering/analyzing business requirements and converting these into verified and validated functional and non-functional requirements for development.
- 7 years of experience in creating and maintaining software development artifacts for communication of requirements, including context diagrams, use cases, report specifications, user interface specification and non-functional requirements specifications.
- 5 years of experience facilitating requirements gathering sessions using focus groups, user interviews or subject matter experts and serving as the liaison between users and developer to ensure requirements are understood, conveyed and met.
- 5 years of creating test plans and test cases, working with users on User Acceptance Testing and communicating issues to the development team.
- 5 years of experience managing requirements including creation and execution of Requirements Management Plan, requirement traceability matrix, establishing req baseline and managing change control.
- 4 years of experience using HP Quality Center.
Source : Gonzer Associates, L. J.