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| Overview: |
The Solutions Design Architect-Functional Specificatin Writer is responsible for the creation of comprehensive, well analyzed functional specifications used by software engineers, Quality Assurance specialists and other stakeholders as a blueprint for creating software applications that meet or exceed project requirements. All other software development artifacts will be measured for accuracy and completeness against these specifications.
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| Responsibilities: |
• Writes comprehensive functional specifications from requirements documents and input from other domain and technical design sources.
• Insures accuracy, completeness, clarity and simplification of functional specifications.
• Presents functional specifications to internal stakeholders for review/acceptance and compliance with requirements.
• Revises functional specifications as necessary throughout the development lifecycle.
• Provides development expertise in bridging domain requirements to developer/QA-ready functional specifications.
• Creates well-defined, well-written and well-organized functional specifications.
• Conducts analytical review meetings as required with domain experts to acquire the details needed to write functional specifications.
• Facilitates the clarification of functional specification issues as they arise during the development process.
• Creates visual models, charts, flow diagrams and other specification components that facilitate simplification and abstraction.
• Creates initial business object (entity) diagrams that can be used to initiate database design.
• Creates user interface mockups and associated behavioral rules to define navigation, validation, data relationships and trigger events.
• Defines business rules that are complete and unambiguous including supporting formulas, algorithms, data queries, process steps and decision points.
• Presents functional specifications to internal stakeholders.
• Identifies exception conditions and alternate use case paths not identified in requirements documentation.
• Provides report layouts, filters, groupings, subtotals and data mapping rules.
• Defines impact of enhancement/project to other integrated applications.
• Maintains revision history
• Defines glossary of significant terms as a component part of the functional specification.
• Insures traceability of requirements throughout the functional specification.
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| Qualifications: |
Education: • BS/BA in computer science, informatics or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Commercial software development experience
• Experience defining Use Cases Experience: • 6 or more years experience developing functional specifications for commercial software products Skills: • Strong analytical skills.
• Strong communication, presentation and writing skills
• Strong abstraction, organization and simplification skills
• Detailed understanding of business processes
• Healthcare domain knowledge
• Knowledge of fundamental relational database design concepts
• Ability to read and interpret fundamental SQL queries
• Understanding of event-driven, object-oriented technologies
• Understanding of functional specification approaches that lead to successful technical design and test case development.
• Strong process definition skills
• Knowledge of UML concepts
• Skilled at abstracting process details from domain experts
• Skilled at analyzing and mapping complex processes
• Skilled at identifying exception conditions
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle and common SDLC methodologies
• Knowledge of commercial software company operations
Physical Requirements: Normal Office Conditions, Work in Pittsburgh Office, occasional travel may be necessary
AA/EOE
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