Description:
Technical/Functional Skills :
- Create the design, implementation, and ongoing management of systems that deliver against strict requirements for functionality, scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Contribute to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software and to clearly articulate the implications of design/architectural decisions, issues and plans to technology leadership.
- Using activity diagrams, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, flowcharts, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, interviews, and workflow analysis to Induce and manage requirements.
- Gathering information from multiple sources and critically evaluating it, reconciling conflicts, disseminating high-level information into details and distinguishing user requests from their true needs
- Driving and challenging the presumptions of business units on how they will successfully execute their plans.
- Interpreting business needs of customers and translating them into the application and operational requirement with the help of strong analytical and product management skills.
- Establishing the technical vision and analyzing tradeoffs between usability and performance needs by teaming up with developers and subject matter experts.
- Liaisoning between technology teams, support teams and business units.
- Using standard templates and natural language to develop requirement specifications.
- Serving as a channel between the internal-external customers and the software development team through which requirements flow
- Communicating and collaborating Proactively with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and delivering Use Cases, GUI, Screen, and Interface designs as and when required.
- Serve as a top-tier technical escalation point for critical pre-production issues and drives escalation/resolution of problems into Development, QA, and Operations teams.
- Resolve problems that arise with existing production applications in a timely manner to ensure the efficient and proper functioning of application components.
- Delivering work products throughout the project life cycle.
- Analyzing information from surveys and workshops, task analysis, and business process description.
- Conferring with project managers to define concepts and using enterprise-wide requirements definition and management systems.
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