Technical Analyst

Edge Services; Vienna (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Edge Services is seeking a professional to translate business needs into technical system requirements and to analyze APIs and data flows for new capabilities. Collaborate with product owners, QA, and developers through Scrum ceremonies to ensure value-driven delivery.

You will map data between systems, document interfaces, and validate applications and services. Strong communicator with Agile experience is essential to succeed in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.

Qualifications

• Ability to write SQL queries.
• Problem solving skills under pressure, team-player, analytical, creative.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with leadership.
• Conducting complex technical analysis across multiple products.
• Work in Agile methodology.
• Writing requirements for a system.
• Writing front end/mobile application requirements is a plus.
• Writing back end service requirements is a plus.
• Experience using tools such as Postman or SoapUI to exercise APIs is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Translate business needs into technical system requirements.
• Leverage documentation and test versions to understand functionality for enhancements and new capabilities.
• Investigate APIs to determine data availability for system capabilities.
• Map data between interfacing systems.
• Assist in developing and prioritizing features and epics.
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies and planning.
• Perform application and services tests/validations.
• Create system requirement documentation and interface specs.
• Provide demos to project team and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Business, QA, and developers to address issues.
• Demonstrate ability to handle fast-paced environment with tight timelines.
• Use system docs, DB info, logs and tests to root-cause issues.

Skills

SQL queries

Agile methodology

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Technical analysis

Tools

Postman

SoapUI

Job description

Job Description:

• Collaborate with product ownership to translate business need into the technical system requirements of the product


• Leverage available documentation and exercises test versions of applications and APIs to understand existing functionality to inform enhancement opportunities and creation of new capabilities


• Investigate enterprise and vendor APIs to determine whether necessary data is available to support intended system capabilities


• Map data between interfacing systems


• Assist lead analysts in developing and prioritizing features and epics to ensure work focuses on requirements with maximum value and are aligned with product delivery strategy


• Participate in project planning, sprint and release planning, daily stand-up meetings (scrums), demos/reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement meetings, and other Scrum-related meetings.


• Perform application and services tests/validations


• Responsible for creating system requirement documentation for applications and services, including interface specifications


• Provide demos to internal project team, as well as to business stakeholders.


• Works closely with Business, Quality Assurance team and developers on projects and to address production issues.


• Demonstrate ability to excel in a fast-paced environment with aggressive timelines that require managing multiple priorities concurrently


• Utilize system documentation, database information, application logs and scenario testing to determine root cause of system issues.

Have general understanding or working knowledge of the following:

• Services-oriented architecture / microservices


• Multi-tier applications (presentation tier/services-processing tier/data management tier)


• Enterprise and vendor API integration


• Managing system behavior through configurable variables


• Error handling


• XML and JSON data structures

Qualifications/Experience:

• Ability to write SQL queries


• Problem solving skill – Works well under pressure and challenges, team-player, good listener, analytical, creative, approachable, etc.


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to partner with various levels of leadership within the organization


• Conducting complex technical analysis across multiple products


• Work in Agile methodology


• Writing requirements for a system


• Writing front end mobile and/or web application requirements is a plus


• Writing back end service requirements is a plus


• Experience using tools such as Postman or SoapUI to exercise APIs is a plus

Must Have's:

• Experience capturing technical requirements for information systems/applications


• Experience working with APIs


• Familiarity with multi-tier applications (application layer, services layer, data layer)

Nice to Have's:

• Experience using tools such as Postman or SoapUI to exercise APIs


• Experience in the financial industry


• Experience working on requirements for native mobile applications