Technical Analyst

Position Description

Partners with business liaisons to translate software requirements into technical specifications and partners with software developers and IT Testing Analysts to develop logical technical processes.

Job Responsibilities

1. Partners with business liaisons and technical teams to understand and define system goals and technical system requirements
2. Creates technical specifications and processes using structured analysis and data modeling techniques (e.g. activity diagrams, entity-relationship diagrams)
3. Partners with designers to build system functionality and quality attributes
4. Assists technical groups in revising logic for performance efficiency
5. Builds and leverages automation to decrease overall system deployment and support cycle time
6. Participates in system and user acceptance testing efforts
7. Builds standards, processes and procedures, and guidelines for business liaisons and software developers
8. Assists business liaisons evaluate cost-benefit and ROI analyses
9. Understands system interdependencies and collaborate with project teams accordingly
10. Performs other duties as assigned

Job Skills Requirements

• Strong ability to adapt quickly to new technologies and changing business requirements
• Strong to quickly troubleshoot problems that may arise in work products
• Strong to partner with software engineers quality analysts to identify course of resolutions
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent project management and prioritization skills
• Strong communication skills
• Proficient understanding of iterative software development methodologies
• Proficient with object-oriented programming languages
• Proficient experience with modeling Techniques: Object Orientation analysis, UML (e.g. Use Cases, Activity Diagrams)
• Proven experience writing software requirement specifications and test specifications

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field, or equivalent education and experience

Experience Requirements

• Minimum three years relevant experience

Physical & Environmental Requirements

 

 

Briggs & Stratton, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, provides innovative products and diverse power solutions to help people get work done. Briggs & Stratton is the world’s largest producer of engines for outdoor power equipment, and is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of lithium-ion battery, standby generator, energy storage system, lawn and garden, turf care and job site products through its Briggs & Stratton®, Vanguard®, Ferris®, Simplicity®, Snapper®, Billy Goat®, Allmand®, SimpliPhi®, Branco® and Victa® brands. Briggs & Stratton products are designed, manufactured, marketed and serviced in more than 100 countries on six continents.

 

Briggs & Stratton is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity. The Company conducts all employment practices without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran's status, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by law. Briggs & Stratton also undertakes affirmative action to assure equal employment opportunity for minorities and women, for persons with disabilities, and for protected veterans.