REPORTS TO
Chief Technology and Security Officer
CONTACTS AND RELATIONSHIPS
Managers and other employees of DGA-PPHP, consultants (health, pension, and I.T.) and vendors.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Identify and develop systems and procedures to meet business requirements.
Work with business users and any other stakeholders to analyze and document business and functional requirements.
Create system specifications, configure system settings and options, plan and execute system and user acceptance testing to meet business requirements.
Work with stakeholders to address business and systems issues. Will be working closely with the supervisor and project managers to get a complete schedule, list and items that will be developed for current and future application needs.
Provide root cause analysis and identify solutions to resolve application and business process issues.
Track and document software defects and changes for proper release control and change management.
Communicate all critical issues to management. Facilitate meetings and coordinate best fitted solutions.
Develop, document, execute and automate test scripts and plans to ensure that the software configurations and systems meet the specified business requirements.
Conduct functional testing that may include application integration, system, regression testing, system/network integration and acceptance testing; this may also include non-functional testing such as performance, volume, load and fallback.
Author test cases and test procedures from prototypes, technical specifications, user documentation, requirements documents and use cases, and reverse engineering requirements from existing functionality.
Configure and maintain application batch processes.
Support electronic file transfers from outside business vendors.
Provide business solutions through reports using database tools.
Ability to accept direction and developmental guidance from supervisor.
Ability to work effectively with individuals at all levels.
Regular, predictable, and reliable attendance is required.
Other tasks and responsibilities as assigned by IT Management.
QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience preferred.
Background in Software Development, Business Analysis and/or experience in requirements gathering and authoring of use case specifications or user stories.
Knowledge of business systems software and software development lifecycle.
Knowledge of various system development and project management methodologies.
Knowledge of formal software engineering methodologies, software development tools, unit testing, code management tools, design tools.
Experience with relational databases, and understanding of data architecture.
Understanding of technical architecture of business applications.
Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical users and non-technical information to technical resources.
Ability to work under strict time constraints.
Ability to write complex SQL queries and reports.
Salary Range
$85,000 - $95,000