1. Serves as liaison between IT and business end-users.
2. Work with the business to analyze business requirements and review/produce specifications for any new/change to technology applications.
3. Communicate business priorities to the technology organization accordingly, in order to drive effective business solutions.
4. Research to determine if solutions to business needs currently exists within or outside the business unit, and if not, whether new solutions are feasible.
5. Analyze business processes, products and operations to create detailed business requirements.
6. Communicate requirements to the development team for the design and implementation of business solutions.
7. Provide input to the development of formal business cases when enterprise-wide business solutions are proposed.
8. Contribute a business or process perspective during design reviews.
9. Work with development and Quality Management teams to ensure that requirements documentation can be easily translated into test plans, and proper testing plans have been completed.
8. Work with test team to develop system integration test scripts and ensure the testing results correspond to the business expectations.
9. Skills include strong written and oral communication, systems and data analysis and problem solving.
Preferred Skills :
MS Office
Unix
SQL/ PLSQL
Ability to define and run test cases, test scenarios and test plans.
Understanding/knowledge of SDLC
Prior experience with Rational Suite of products
Prior experience working with distributed teams.
Extensive experience with requirements (functional/nonfunctional) gathering, use case development, functional specification.
Primary responsibility is to gather, analyze, document and validate the needs of the project stakeholders.
Provides technical assistance in identifying, evaluating, and developing systems and procedures that are cost effective and meet business requirements.
Works with user groups to provide training, resolve questions, assess user needs, and recommend changes.
Prepares technical specifications for system changes and/or system testing.
Skills include strong written and oral communication, systems and data analysis and problem solving.
Understanding of relational db structure and ability to write SQL queries and analyze data.
Demonstrate professional communication and facilitation skills and an ability to partner across teams.
Basic understanding of Financial and Budgeting processes.
Ability to work on multiple initiatives with varying timelines and deliverables to completion.
Responsible for providing support to technical professionals with regard to business operations problems, and participation in related system development projects.
Knowledge in application development, and a very good understanding of all phases of development lifecycle.
Create, maintain and document application related business specifications.
Strong knowledge and use of development, methodologies, standards and procedures.
Responsible for Gap analysis after gathering the business requirements from the users.
Document, clarify, and communicate requests for enhancements or application changes with the requestor and manage the project or initiative.
Coordinate with applications technical staff to determine project scope and provides estimate of level of effort (milestones for the project) and budget.
Interact with computer systems end-users and project business sponsors to determine, document, and obtain signoff on business requirements.
Remain knowledgeable in all areas of business operations in order to identify systems needs and requirements.
Maintain templates and requirements for all technical documents as they relate to the SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) including: modification specifications, project schedules, test plans, training documentation, release notes, etc.
Attend weekly meetings to discuss and provide status reports
Preferred Skills :
Bachelors Degree or Equivalent degree
1+ years of experience as a Business Analyst.
Experience with Oracle Financial related products.
Excellent communication, problem solving and teaming skills are necessary.
Demonstrate team leadership qualities.
Oracle Financials, Process Modeling Tools, MS Office, MS Visio, MS-Project, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clearquest.
Communicate with the customers to understand their business needs and then document the requirements and meet these in a timely manner.
Analyze, troubleshoot and implement minor enhancements to support the applications requested by the customer.
Develop and maintain code for customized programs, troubleshoot problems or issues for software applications within established timeframes.
Apply current technology methods and procedures to modify and develop applications.
Research, review, and recommend system design and program coding methods and procedures.
Design, develop, and implement new procedures and techniques to improve efficiency and effectiveness of applications.
Analyze the existing procedures of data flows and rewrite the code for better performance.
Frame test scenarios, test cases and scripts to cover all business rules and perform unit tests on code modifications.
Develop scripts to automate file manipulation and data loading procedures.
Document/Maintain functional and technical specifications.
Attend weekly status meetings to identify and resolve issues, discuss the achievements and milestones.
Preferred Skills :
Bachelors or higher degree and prior experience.
Knowledge of data warehousing is a plus.
Proven ability to develop clear, concise business/technical requirements as well as end user documentation.
Must be able to effectively work in a team and liaise with customers, other departments and 3rd Parties .
Excellent communication, problem solving and teaming skills are necessary.
Ability to manage assigned responsibilities with minimal supervision.
Some travel required.
Knowledge of MS Office, UNIX, SQL/ PLSQL, Java Web-Server, JSP and Oracle 8i/9i/10g.
Meet with users to identify current operating procedures and to clarify program objectives.
Analyze the current system and based on the analysis, design and develop the future system to accommodate the business needs.
Create and maintain application design specifications, document technical specifications.
Responsible for Quality assurance/ Gap analysis by debugging the system, manage resources and tune-up the systems for optimum performance.
Manage all implementation, enhancement, and upgrading systems related to multiple projects.
Document the complete process flow to describe program development, logic, testing, and implementation, application integration, coding.
Document, clarify, and communicate requests for enhancements or systems changes with the requestor and manage the project or initiative.
Coordinate with applications technical staff to determine project scope and provides estimate of level of effort (milestones for the project) and budget.
Interact with computer systems end-users and project business sponsors to determine, document, and obtain signoff on business requirements.
Establish standards and procedures.
Remain knowledgeable in all areas of business operations in order to identify systems needs and requirements.
Maintain templates and requirements for all technical documents as they relate to the SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) including: modification specifications, project schedules, test plans, training documentation, release notes, etc.
Manage and coordinate all major technology deliveries.
Attend weekly meetings to discuss and provide status reports.
Preferred Skills :
Bachelors or higher degree and prior experience.
Knowledge of UNIX/Windows operating systems.
Proven ability to develop clear and concise technical requirements.
Must be able to effectively work in a team and liaise with customers, other departments and 3rd Parties.
Experience in designing, developing and testing systems functionality changes and suggest improvements.
Excellent communication, problem solving and teaming skills are necessary.
Ability to manage assigned responsibilities with minimal supervision.
Some travel required.
Knowledge of MS Office, UNIX, Windows NT/XP, SQL/ PLSQL, Java Web-Server, JSP and Oracle 8i/9i/10g.
Work with the business and IT groups to understand and prioritize Business and Financial requirements.
Develop roadmap to achieve long-term strategic goals.
Evaluate new technology and develop business cases for business financial and accounting solutions.
Act as evangelist for benefits across the organization and promote usage of business solutions.
Guide the strategic design, development, and implementation of Business solutions.
Direct business and systems development, including estimation, planning, monitoring progress, reviewing deliverables, and communicating status with management.
Participate in the design and review of database implementations to ensure optimal performance and interoperability with business solutions.
Solve complex business/finance/accounting problems and develop standard solution patterns.
Develop business standards, accounting policies, and procedures for business process improvements.
Assist in the definition of information quality metrics, testing methodology and various other business requirements.
Mentor staff in the use of Business tools and techniques.
Design and coordinate a curriculum for coaching and training customers in the use of BI tools to enhance business decision-making capability.
Preferred Skills :
Bachelors Degree or Equivalent degree.
5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or Manager.
Experience with FAS accounting is preferred.
Experience with Peoplesoft and Oracle Financial related products.
Excellent communication, problem solving and teaming skills are necessary.
Demonstrate team leadership qualities.
Tools Required:
Peoplesoft Financials 8.9, Oracle Financials, Process Modeling Tools, MS Office, MS Visio, MS-Project, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clearquest, BI tool experience (Hyperion/ Business Objects)
Support business critical applications in a high availability server environment.
Identify and resolve database problems on AIX, Solaris and Win2000/2003 servers.
Install/upgrade database software.
Perform system and database monitoring necessary to meet service levels--Oracle and SQL Server.
Perform database tuning as needed to meet service levels.
Perform database performance monitoring and tuning.
Develop, test and implement reliable database backup/recovery strategies.
Participate in disaster recovery planning and testing.
Assist application developers in application design and tuning.
Provide front-line database support for application developers.
Preferred Skills :
BS in Computer Science or related field
Minimum of 3 years experience in Database Administration working in UNIX and/or Windows environments.
Experience working with: Oracle 8, 9i and 10g, MS SQL Server, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, Windows 2000/2003 server, Oracle and MS SQL software installations and upgrades, Unix and Windows scripting, SQL query and report generation, database replication.
The Test Analyst is ultimately responsible for ensuring all Central Data R3 testing is completed successfully and in accordance with client Best Practices.
Create semantic layer test plans and scenarios as defined by the Test Approach Detail.
Assist with overall Enterprise Data Warehouse testing strategy for internal application release.
Work with the business users and CD team(s) to execute test plans as defined by the test cycles.
Gather and present test execution results to CD team(s) and other vested Testing resources.
Understand, interpret and track changes to the requirements so the Testing Plans and scripts can be updated appropriately.
Assist with requirements management to ensure requirements testability.
Develop and review procedure documentation (when necessary).
Review Programming Specs for the Test Cases (when necessary).
Responsible for ensuring the project adheres to the test governance.
Assist in Problem Resolution management (Issues, Risks, Defects, Enhancements, etc.).
Assist in providing status updates to management.
Required Skills :
Data Warehouse Testing
Rational Tool suite
Intermediate SQL skills
Business Objects skills preferred
Soft Skills :
Communication & Interpersonal
Organizational Sills
Problem Solver
Self-Development
Team Player
Detail oriented
This position functions as a senior team member. The incumbent is responsible for the definition, development, and implementation of new systems, and major enhancements to existing systems, as well as production support for systems with high complexity. The candidate should have good organizational skills, time management skills, strong analytical and problem solving skills. The incumbent is capable of providing project leadership for major feasibility or business systems analysis studies. The incumbent is capable of directing a team, delegating assignments, providing technical guidance and applying project management expertise. The incumbent must be able to work effectively with all levels of management and staff, and with customers in defining requirements.
Required Skills/Competencies :
Bachelors or higher degree/prior experience.
Position typically requires 6-10 years of experience in application development as outlined above.
Requires strong JSF experience. Skills may include (but not limited to): Mercator,Kana knowledge and other certified skills.
Excellent communication, problem solving and teaming skills are necessary.
Preferred Skills :
MS Office
UNIX
Java, J2EE, Struts, IBM Websphere Portal
Review, analyze, and evaluate business user and system needs.
Write detailed functional requirements, analysis, and implementation documents.
Ability to determine feasibility, cost and time estimates, and impacts on current and proposed systems.
Participate and support application team through analysis, development, validation and implementation of enhancements and bug fixes for the application and Real Time interfaces.
Rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
Provide a leadership role in various assignments.
Skills include strong written and oral communication, systems and data analysis and problem solving.
Very good understanding of relational db structure and ability to write SQL queries and analyze data.
Requirements:
Bachelors or higher degree and prior experience.
Knowledge of data Warehousing a plus.
Proven ability to develop clear, concise business/technical requirements as well as process and end user documentation.
Experience in defining, designing, developing, testing and implementing (including training) of systems functionality changes and improvements.
Excellent communication, problem solving and teaming skills are necessary.
Ability to manage assigned responsibilities with minimal supervision.
Some travel required.
