Software Analyst

Trigyn Technologies Limited; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Trigyn Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Software Analyst in Albany, NY to author and refine business and technical documents, including use cases, flow charts, data element tables, and mockups.

You will work with developers and architects to translate user needs into designs and specifications, support testing, and extract legacy business rules for modernization. The role emphasizes collaboration across teams, including joint application design sessions, requirements elicitation, and production

Qualifications

• Interprets customer needs and translates them into application requirements.
• Creates software requirements and specification documents.
• Guides joint application design sessions and requirements reviews.
• Experience extracting rules from legacy code (COBOL).

Responsibilities

• Author business documents for features and documentation in a software repo.
• Refine requirements with development and architecture teams to inform designs.
• Participate in testing to verify modules meet requirements and support feature rollouts.
• Extract business rules from legacy systems and translate to modern designs.

Skills

Business analysis

Requirements gathering

Technical designs

Flow charts

Use case diagrams

COBOL

Legacy system knowledge

Tools

Monarch Tool

Team Foundation Server

HTML editors

Expression

Balsamiq

Job description

Trigyn's direct government client has an immediate need for Software Analyst in Albany, NY.

Description

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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Work closely with legacy staff in extracting business rules from legacy application.

Mandatory Qualifications

• Studies the software application domain, prepares software requirements, and specification documents. Liaises between the software users and the software developers. Conveys the demands of software users to the developers. Skills include: working knowledge of software technology; computer programming experience/expertise; general business knowledge; problem solving/reduction skills; interpersonal relation skills; flexibility and adaptability.
• Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field.
• 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 applications for testing purposes.
• 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 in creating templates for generating documents for the agency based on policy inputs.

TRIGYN TECHNOLOGIES, INC. is an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER and has been in business for 35 years. TRIGYN is an ISO 27001:2022 and CMMI Level 5 certified company.