Software Analyst - Expert

Provide a short description of the Position: This position is for a Software Analyst for the Automated State Support Enforcement and Tracking System (ASSETS). ASSETS is a statewide system that New York's state and local child support enforcement staff use to manage cases and child support collections while also fulfilling federal and state tracking and reporting mandates. ASSETS provides local district child support staff with automated tools to improve Child Support program effectiveness, increase productivity, and enhance program management and monitoring capabilities. The system functionality continues to be expanded with the eventual replacement of the online legacy portion of the Child Support Management System (CSMS).

Provide a list of the day-to-day tasks to be performed by the Selected Candidate: 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.