HBITS: HBITS-08-15071
Expert, Software Analyst
30 month contract
Interview: Virtual Interview
Work model: 50% telecommuting, 50% Office per week in Albany, NY
--- Project Description ---
This position is for a Software Analyst for the Automated State Support
Enforcement and Tracking System (ASSETS). ASSETS is a statewide
system that New York's state and local child support enforcement staff
use to manage cases and child support collections while also fulfilling
federal and state tracking and reporting mandates. ASSETS provides
local district child support staff with automated tools to improve Child
Support program effectiveness, increase productivity, and enhance
program management and monitoring capabilities. The system
functionality continues to be expanded with the eventual replacement of
the online legacy portion of the Child Support Management System
(CSMS).
--- Day-to-Day Tasks ---
1. Author Business Documents for a variety of application features
including but not limited to use case diagrams, flow charts, data
element tables, mock-up screens using Expression / Balsamiq and
swim lane diagrams and maintaining them in a software document
repository.
2. - Work closely with development and architecture staff to refine
requirements and assist them in the creation of technical designs and
specification documents. The candidate will be expected to provide
insight that results in greater efficiency in a variety of child support
system processes.
3. - Guide joint application design sessions, present and participate in
requirements solicitation meetings and interviews, requirement reviews,
feature demonstrations and presentations of draft and production
features to key users and local staff at conferences and meetings.
4. - Work closely with testing staff to ensure tests of developed application
modules conform to requirements, and will be called upon to participate
in testing to accomplish scheduled, implementations of new features.
5. -Work closely with legacy staff in extracting business rules from legacy
application.
--- Required Qualifications ---
• 60 months experience in reading and extracting rules from legacy code
(COBOL).
• 84 months experience organizing Joint Application Development sessions:
collaborating with developers and subject matter experts to establish the
technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance
needs.
• 84 months experience using Team Foundation Server to facilitate creation,
analysis, and planning of change requests and bugs.
• 84 months experience documenting the as-is and to-be states of the business
process or function by using flow charts, process models, functional
requirements, use cases and interface designs following the agency standard
templates.
• 60 months experience using HTML/WSIWYG editors to create and maintain
mockups.
• 84 months experience interpreting customer business needs and translating
them into application and operational requirements using recognized
business analysis methodologies (e.g. business process flows, fit-gaps
analyses, functional designs, etc.)
• 48 months experience in creating models using Monarch Tool.
• 84 months experience in creating and manipulating data in legacy application
for testing purposes.
• 84 months experience in creating templates for generating the documents for
the agency based on policy inputs
MVP Consulting Plus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities during the application process.