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Livingston International lists this Software Analyst - Cheektowaga, NY opportunity in town of cheektowaga, New York. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
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Join Livingston and to grow your career and your knowledge about the constantly changing world of international trade. Livingston is a market leader offering customs brokerage, consulting and compliance, and freight forwarding services across North America and around the world. Livingston has over 3,200 employees at more than 100 key border points, seaports, airports and other strategic locations in North America, Europe and Asia. Our fast-paced and collaborative environment offers you the opportunity to work with a great team, learn, and develop your expertise in the complex and evolving world of trade.
SmartBorder, a division of Livingston International. is looking for a Software Analyst who has a passion for delivering great software products that meet customer requirements. The Software Analyst acts as a requirements engineer for one or more development teams by identifying customer needs, eliciting and defining product requirements, identifying product options, and helping the development team transform them into working software. The Software Analyst works directly with internal and external stakeholders including the product owner, users, Marketing, program management, software developers and software testers to analyze information, generate functional requirements, and derive solutions.
The successful candidate must be a self-motivated positive person who puts team goals ahead of individual accomplishments, understands Freight and/or Customs Brokerage systems, has excellent written and verbal communication skills, is able to work independently, and has strong influencing skills.
Responsibilities
Work with stakeholders to identify solutions to customer needs and develop concepts for features and products
Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the true underlying needs
Collaborate with scrum team members on solution designs for data structure, data mapping/transformation, screen and batch solution design.
Create user stories, acceptance criteria and ensure that stories meet the Definition of Ready
Collaborate with product owner to develop, prioritize and manage features and user stories
Collaborate with product owner to prioritize and re-evaluate requirements throughout the software development lifecycle to ensure project objectives and product vision are being met
Participate in planning and execution of QA/user acceptance testing, triage issues and work with test and development teams to resolve
Participate as a Scrum team member to deliver incremental functionality for every sprint
Work with other Software Analysts to increase business analysis acumen across the group
Demonstrate finished work to stakeholders
Provide status reports as needed and present data at appropriate meetings
Qualifications
4+ years of experience working in any software development and / or product development role
2+ years of experience with and understanding of Freight and/or Customs Brokerage software
Demonstrated creative and innovative problem solving ability
Effective interpersonal, leadership, and influencing skills especially the ability to gain acceptance from others without harming relationships
Experience with software and systems development lifecycles
Experience utilizing a requirements management software tool is preferred
Experience in Agile Scrum software development processes preferred
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills are a must
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