Systems Analyst - PeopleSoft

Allegis Group; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global workforce solutions provider is looking for a Systems Analyst / Tester to support the UK Global Payroll team. The role involves expertise in PeopleSoft’s Global Payroll and Absence Management modules, managing business processes from initial phases to implementation. Candidates should possess strong analysis skills, at least 7 years of experience in analysis or testing, and an understanding of both agile and waterfall methodologies. This position is essential for ensuring quality and efficiency in product delivery, as well as for conducting thorough testing of releases.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of related analysis, testing, or consulting experience with ERP tools.
• 5+ years’ experience specifically with PeopleSoft Global Payroll and Absence Management.
• Experience in enterprise development environments using agile and waterfall methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Gather and maintain business processes for projects.
• Lead testing efforts related to the software development lifecycle.
• Manage remediation processes for reported product defects.

Skills

Analysis skills

Problem solving

Communication skills

Agile processes

Business process modeling

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Math or Science

Tools

PeopleSoft

MS Office suite

SQL or other querying tools

PeopleTools

Job description

Job Summary

The Systems Analyst / Tester will work as a member of the UK Global Payroll team supporting the Total Rewards teams. Working specifically within PeopleSoft’s Global Payroll and Absence Management modules and others non-PeopleSoft application used by the Allegis Operating Companies. The System Analyst / Tester will be charged with being a product expert on the PeopleSoft Global Payroll and Absence Management modules.

This candidate will gather, develop, coordinate, and maintain business processes for various projects from initial phase to final implementation, assuring both business and technical requirements meet defined standards.

The Systems Analyst / Tester is a key member of a product delivery team, interacting with the Product Owner; application developers; Scrum Masters; third party vendors; and Enterprise and Domain Architects, for the full life cycle of projects and sprints. He / she will analyze business processes needs and assist in designing and documenting solutions through writing stories and task, while working with product owners to build-out and maintain product backlogs.

They will ensure that business needs are defined and delivered with quality, including proactively managing customer expectations and resolving questions around the project deliverables and product features and functionality. Additionally, they will share testing ownership and responsibilities with other members of the team, ensuring that all releases are properly tested to mitigate both technical failures as well as business process failures. They will be responsible for ensuring all test cases are clearly documented and are re-usable by other partner teams. They will also direct the development of automated test scripts, enabling full end to end testing to be automated.

The ideal candidate is a highly motivated self-starter who has demonstrated successful experience in an enterprise development environment, using traditional waterfall and agile methodologies for delivery.

Essential Functions

• Possess in-depth knowledge of the PeopleSoft Global Payroll and Absence Management Modules features and functionality, and the related business processes, the applications and technology goals for the enterprise, systems development tools and other environmental considerations such as security policies.
• Partner with the product owner as a primary point of contact for requests, as well as research and coordinate responses considering the systems and business processes within the assigned service area; brokering communication and decision making amongst a community of diverse business partners and users of common applications.
• Understand the strategic direction of delivered product features and related business processes, as well as any changes to the product and related processes.
• Lead testing efforts related to software development lifecycle (SDLC), including test plan and test case creation, test execution and documentation.
• Partner with project team to understand any changes to business processes and make changes to current test process to improve overall efficiency.
• Participate in and support the other SDLC processes, including process model development; design and code reviews; user acceptance testing (including the definition of expected results and acceptance criteria), and manage the defect resolution processes.
• Share and communicate changes and requests to business customers.
• Manage the remediation processes for reported product defects, including coordination with development and business points of contact, triage and trouble-shooting steps, testing to validate resolution, and communication of closure.

Minimum Education and / or Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Math or Science, or equivalent business experience.
• 7 + years of related analysis, testing or consulting experience and technical proficiency in ERP tools
• 5 + years’ experience working specifically with PeopleSoft Global Payroll and Absence Management

Requisite Abilities and / or Skills

• Strong working knowledge of analysis skills (including root cause analysis, business process modeling, requirements gathering, data flow analysis) and tools
• Proven experience with creating systems requirements, architecture and design specifications
• Documenting requirements via use cases, user stories, or other industry-recognized methods
• Demonstrated skills in the areas of critical thinking and problem solving
• Adept at queries and business condition writing
• Understanding of rules-based analytical systems and lifecycle
• Understanding of enterprise decision management concepts and methodology
• Working experience with agile software development processes, as well as project management principles and artifacts
• Ability to work well individually and in a team environment, including on-shore and off-shore team members and third-party vendor arrangements
• Dedicated to complete assignments under deadlines
• Comfortable with taking on multiple tasks and supporting multiple teams concurrently
• Undertaking and coaching team members through small research and development / proof of concept projects in support of prototyping and piloting new capabilities particularly within the PSA space.
• In depth knowledge of the PeopleSoft Global and Absence Management Modules.
• Ability to plug in and assist anywhere from : researching technologies analyzing existing competitive products for key features producing illustrative training documentation, working with team members to translate to our customers Conducting detailed functional testing Strong facilitation and conflict resolution skills Organization skills and time management skills to manage multiple complex tasks simultaneously.

Desired Abilities and / or Skills

• Proficient with MS Office suite
• Test automation skills
• sql or other querying tools
• PeopleTools

Core Competencies

Customer Focus Integrity & Trust

Dealing with Ambiguity Functional / Technical Skills

Drive for Results Business Acumen

Approachability Self Development

Peer Relationships Decision Quality

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