↵
Job Title Functional Analyst – PeopleSoft Financials Relevant Experience (in Yrs) 6-8 years Technical/Functional Skills Peoplesoft Financials, PeopleTools,SQR,App Engine,Oracle Experience Required 6 years Roles & Responsibilities Functional Analyst Role in CORP Maintenance team. To work as a liaison between business and IT team to understand requirements, confirm defects, service requests, and preventive adaptive tasks and set priority on work items. Know the Business o Know the system functionality for your assigned staff agency customers o This means understanding the impact of functional changes and the impact to system functionality before recommending moving forward with the change • SME for overall functional knowledge of applications in the Application Domain for which you are responsible • Review business cases (investments); provides input into estimates by participating in assessment meetings and determining the complexity of the request • Works with the business to identify opportunities to change their existing processes as opposed to creating system changes; facilitates timely decisions on application / process design trade-offs and functionality o For example, the business may be asking for a change that requires customization to complete, but if we wait for the next point release then it is out of the box; by waiting the cost of the change is less, the impact and cost to maintenance is less • Ensure the business requirements are complete; if they are incomplete: o If changes are very minor then make the updates • Fulfills the project role of Systems Requirements Coordinator and leads Analysis activities: o Ensures requirements are clearly defined, testable and documented within the RSM o Manages changes to the baselined RSM o This includes use cases, presentation specifications, UI specifications and mockups, error messages, analysis object model ( Class Diagram), activity diagrams, new fields, reports or any other artifacts that will assist the development team in completing the design and executing the development • Ensure Peer Reviews are conducted for all artifacts per Project Process Library (PPL) guidelines • Assist the QA tester with understanding the requirements so the tester can write the system test cases • Work with the business to ensure they have at least one person that can execute the UAT, when appropriate • For training large groups, use a train the trainer method; train one or two key people and they train the rest of their teams • Responsible for conducting fit/gap analysis between requirements and delivered functionality of packaged applications • Follows requirements through to production support; serves as the liaison to assist the business to classify post implementation requests as enhancements or defects in delivered functionality • Conducts functionality walkthroughs with the development team and production support resources to transition application knowledge • Work with the entire development team to ensure each member of the team understands the role of the functional analyst and utilizes the functional analyst as required for the efforts being worked by the team • Attend bi-weekly customer meetings • Attend bi-weekly internal IT status meeting • Excellent oral and written communication skills; this is a mandatory skill set as the functional analyst is required to meet with customers and other IT partners to understand impact, develop requirements, complete analysis and communicate with the development team • Ability to lead meetings o Functional analyst must be able to establish an agenda, set the meeting tone and direction, keep the meeting on schedule, and document meeting minutes o This includes but not limited to kick-off meetings, requirements sessions, status meetings, requirements and design review sessions • Ability to multi-task; analysts often work multiple assignments • Ability to learn quickly and adapt to change • Strong background in developing / documenting requirements and associated artifacts that clearly defines what the development team needs to design and develop • Strong background in evaluating new requirements to determine impact and options o Ability to ask and understand what the business needs are o Ability to recognize when the business is providing requirements versus trying to design the solution; if the analyst understands what the business needs are, then the right solution can be delivered o If requirements appear to be asking for functionality that has not been previously attempted, discuss with the development team to determine if the requirements can be met o If not, come up with alternate solutions • Proactive learner; analysts must be able to learn new systems, environments, technologies and tools quickly to adapt to ever changing business needs • Knowledge of CMM practices o Know best practices for proper documentation of requirements and analysis artifacts o Understand how to conduct and document peer reviews o Understanding tools and practices used to obtain proper sign-off before development starts o Ability to understand and utilize CUSTOMER templates and processes • Knowledge and experience testing solutions; knowing how to write requirements that are testable • Experience training other resources o Must be able to work with Learning Systems when new training classes are required o Must be able to train key business resources when new functionality is ready for implementation Generic Managerial Skills Good Communication Skills, Education Under/Post Graduation Degree Start date (dd-mmm-yy) 17-Nov-14 Duration of assignment (in Months) 12 months (Long Term and might get extended) Work Location San Antonio, USA Job Title Technical Lead – PeopleSoft Financial Relevant Experience (in Yrs) 5+ Years Technical/Functional Skills PSFIN, PeopleTools,SQR,App Engine,Oracle Experience Required 7+ years Roles & Responsibilities Review all artifacts provided by the functional analyst to ensure understanding prior to creating solution design • Attend bi-weekly customer meetings with the CUSTOMER TGL for your designed business area of responsibility to address any technical issues • Attend bi-weekly internal IT status meeting setup by the CUSTOMER TGL • Responsible for assigning and managing all design, development and implementation activities for Small Mod, CSR, Corrective and PAIP work • Responsible for ensuring a design review (peer review, PDR/CDR – only when directed by architect) is conducted for all changes • Responsible for ensuring all activities utilize standard CUSTOMER approved technology • Responsible for ensuring code (peer) reviews are conducted for all code changes • Responsible for ensuring unit testing is conducted for all development work • Responsible for ensuring software defects are resolved • Responsible for reviewing and approving all technical estimates • Escalation point with other IT teams • Responsible for ensuring development activities follow CUSTOMER standard practices • Responsible for ensuring all configuration changes, code changes and development activities follow CUSTOMER approved change and release processes • Responsible for ensuring all Service Requests have an up-to-date status prior to the scheduled bi-weekly meeting with the CUSTOMER TGL and business partners • Responsible for ensuring awareness of all major incidents as they happen o If Level 2 has been working a Major Incident, engage if sufficient progress towards RETURN TO SERVICE has not been achieved and drive the MI to RETURN TO SERVICE o Lead all RETURN TO SERVICE activities escalated to Level 3; engage all resources required to RETURN TO SERVICE an MI • For new capabilities ensures regression test scripts are updated if impacted • Strong oral and written communication skills o Ability to communicate effectively with Technical and Business Architects, Functional Analysts, Developers, Testers, other IT teams and business customers o Ability to document the design artifacts, unit test cases and implementation plans • Experience coaching less experienced team members with things like troubleshooting, problem solving, proper coding techniques, design review do’s and don’ts, etc Experience developing custom applications • Experience troubleshooting and solving problems with custom developed applications and vendor delivered applications • Ability to create multiple design options (when appropriate) and making recommendations as to which option would be best for the individual situation • Knowledge and experience conducting / documenting design reviews and code reviews (peer reviews) • Experience working with industry standard code repositories o Experience checking code in and out of the repository o Experience merging code with other project code • Experience developing and implementing rollout plans and back-out plans Experience leading trouble calls (Major Incidents/Outages) o Ability to identify resources required to Return to Service (RETURN TO SERVICE) quickly o Ability to identify potential problems and solutions o Ability to ask the right questions to get people thinking potential root cause or fixes o Ability to lead debrief activities after RETURN TO SERVICE has been achieved, identifying root cause, long-term solutions o Ability to work with different suppliers and vendors to resolve problems • Experience leading both small and large development projects from a technical perspective • Experience leading teams o Understanding workload of the team and individual resources o Ability to prioritize team deliverables and activities o Experience assigning work to team members understanding their current workload, skill sets and experience • Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies quickly • Experience reviewing requirements and analysis artifacts o Ability to identify gaps in the artifacts o Ability to identify risks and mitigation strategies associated with a project • Experience designing, coding and testing solutions o Knowledge of how good design artifacts are constructed o Knowledge of and experience delivering industry standard code techniques o Knowledge and experience developing and executing quality unit test cases • Generic Managerial Skills Good Communication Skills Education Under/Post Graduation Degree Start date (dd-mmm-yy) 17-Nov-14 Duration of assignment (in Months) 12 months (Long Term and might get extended) Work Location San Antonio, USA http://idc.zoniac.com/Companies/1259/custom/customerLogo.gif Amar IDC Technologies, Inc 1851 McCarthy Blvd, Milpitas, CA 95035 P-:408-668-9228 E-: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SAP ABAP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sap-abap. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
