System Functionality Specialist (Testing/Project Management/BA) :: REMOTE (Mechanicsburg, PA)

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Job description

Ark Solutions Inc is looking for System Functionality Specialist (System Functionality/Project Management/System Testing)!

Position: System Functionality Specialist (System Functionality/Project Management/System Testing)

Location: REMOTE (Mechanicsburg, PA)

Duration: 7+ Months and possibility of extension

Description:

Seeking for System Functionality Specialist with functional expert for Document Management System (OnBase/IBM Filenet), defined set of applications or a portfolio of related applications as needed.

Responsibilities include providing expertise in the business process supported by the application to prepare and review designs, recommend improvements, and provide guidance during the testing process. Will helps the Programmers establish a clear understanding of the business functional requirements and either creates the functional design to meet the requirements or reviews and approves the designs written by the Programmers. Must understand all aspects of their specific application(s), and the underlying business process. Will plan, analyze, and define high- level software strategies and solutions, manage efforts for enhancements, regular maintenance and outages to define technical requirements and long-range plans for meeting customer requirements.

Work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization, and to recommend and deliver solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.

Day-to-day Responsibilities:

Analyzes, determines, and documents functional requirements.

Provides definition on how the applications will support business requirements.

Conducts impact analyses of business requirements on the system.

Works with Technical Support in defining software/hardware requirements.

Gathers and interprets user requirements into design specifications.

Participates in design of application.

Participates in test reviews.

Leads and facilitates test planning.

Communicates accurate and useful status updates.

Strong communication skills; both written and spoken

Acts as the application(s) functional expert; providing expertise in the business process supported by the application.

Provides detailed definition on how the applications will support business requirements.

Plans and develops user interface strategy.

Directs and participates in design of application.

Interprets and understands user requirements/design specifications.

Provides detailed definition on how the applications will support business requirements.

Reviews and understands team work plan

Identifies and tracks issues, risks and action items affecting own work and work of team.

Anticipates and resolves issues specific to the team.

Determines time estimates and schedule for own work and resolve issues in a timely manner

Desired Skill Set:

Strong organizational skills.

Willing to assist with training, development of user guides or other Business Analyst activities, when necessary.

Experience in Project Management Methodologies and project lifecycle.

Experience creating user stories, tasks, and tracking defects.

Experience with Manual Testing practices and software, such as Microsoft Test Manager

Experience with System, Integration and User Acceptance testing.

Experience participating in Facilitated Workshops for requirements analysis.

Experience creating workflows

Knowledge of formal requirements gathering methodologies.

Experience developing Business Requirements to include project initiation documents, what the needed achievements will be, and the quality measures.

Experience developing Functional requirements - describe what the system, process, or product/service must do in order to fulfil the business requirements.

Experience developing User (stakeholder) requirements - possess the ability to document and interpret the important part of the deliverables, and the needs of the stakeholders. This deliverable can also reflect how the product will be designed and developed, and will define how test cases must be formulated.

Experience developing Quality-of-service (non-functional) requirements - requirements that do not perform a specific function for the business requirement but are needed to support the functionality. For example: performance, scalability, quality of service (QoS), security and usability.

Experience developing Report Specifications - define the purpose of a report, its justification, attributes and columns, owners and runtime parameters.

Experience developing Requirements Traceability Matrix - a cross matrix for recording the requirements through each stage of the requirements gathering process.

Skills
Required / Desired
Experience

Experience with project management
Required
4 Years

Experience with requirements gathering
Required
4 Years

Experience developing Business Requirements documentation
Required
4 Years

Experience conducting full system testing with overall functionality
Required
4 Years

Experience with OnBase or Filenet
Desired

Prior Commonwealth/State/Federal/Government experience
Desired

Experience in working on a Scrum Team or Agile environment
Desired

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