MI Systems Analyst/Validator

Title: MI Systems Analyst/Validator for Northrop Grumman SSA ITSSC Team

Company : Northrop Grumman SSA ITSSC Team

Pay Rate : $70 per hr on C2C

USC/GC

# of Openings : 1

Position Type : Right to Hi re

Location : Baltimore, MD, United States

Description :


Description of Work:


The Management Information (MI) Systems Analyst (SA) will support the HACPS initiative. The SA will work closely with SSA's business partner and SMEs in the definition of requirements, testing/validation, and technical writing. The SA will collect information to analyze and evaluate existing or proposed systems, perform research, plan, propose solutions, advocate software and systems, coordinate the problem solving process, and ensure that the business standards and business/functional requirements are met and documented. The SA will support testing/validation activities including documenting test plans and test scenarios, identifying and creating test data, executing validation scripts, identifying and documenting defects, and working with the development team to resolve issues. Additional responsibilities include:

• Provide analytical and technical support to enable design, development, validation, integration, and implementation of software applications.
• Work in an agile environment to collaborate with self-organizing, cross-functional teams for software development.
• Provide technical recommendations/solutions to complex problems.
• Provide support to analyze the modern architecture and development environment.
• Elicit and analyze user, functional, non-functional, Section 508, and other detailed requirements/acceptance criteria for applications and interfaces.
• Provide support for creating technical documentation including technical specifications and user guides.
• Design/develop system diagrams and presentation materials using industry standards and formats for various technical and management forums.
• Collaborate with developers to translate business requirements into technical stories.
• Provide support in development of documentation and presentations of demos for each sprint or software work-package to stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications:
Minimum knowledge, skills, abilities needed.

• Bachelor's Degree and 7 years of relevant work experience; Master's Degree and 5 years of relevant experience; or a minimum of 11 years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience working in various SDLC frameworks (e.g. Agile, Waterfall) as a Systems Analyst to elicit and document requirements and technical specifications including User Stories, Technical Stories, Detailed Functional Requirements, Detailed Design Specifications, etc.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working in Agile/Scrum methodology projects, including hands on experience with VersionOne.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working with relational databases such as DB2, including hands on experience with developing SQL queries.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience working on BI development projects using tools such as WebFOCUS 8.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience supporting User Interface and database manual validation activities including documenting test plans and test scenarios, identifying/creating test data, executing test cases/test scenarios, and identifying/documenting defects.
• Minimum of 1 year experience coding and testing 508 standards.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics to management and non-technical audiences, as well as interface with the customer on a daily basis.
• Minimum of 1 year experience as a self-starter who can work with a large and diverse team of business, management and IT individuals. Must have multitasking ability with excellent organization, analytical, planning and scheduling skills.
• Must be US Citizen or US Permanent Resident (Green card holder)
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a US Public Trust clearance

Preferred Qualifications:
Candidates with these skills will be given preferential consideration.

• Experience with automation testing using BDD frameworks and tools such as Selenium and Cucumber.
• Knowledge of Web Services and testing tools such as SoapUI.
• Knowledge of Object Oriented Programming concepts and languages such as Java.
• Knowledge of Modern Development Tools and CI/CD pipeline including AWS, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, Maven, etc.
• Ability to quickly understand government specific architectures, existing and proposed, and provide solutions for technical problems.
• Self-starter, highly motivated individual, and a team player with the ability to adapt to a dynamic work environment.
• Prior SSA or Federal government experience.