Professional Career Opportunities - Job Title Details

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Business Systems Analyst 1

Occupation Group

Information Technology

Salary Information

Career Ladder Information

Salary Information for Business Systems Analyst Trainee 1
Title Grade Hiring Rate/yr Job Rate/yr
Business Systems Analyst Trainee 1 13 $49,363 $63,169
Business Systems Analyst Trainee 2 14 $52,198 $66,634
Business Systems Analyst 1 18 $65,001 $82,656
Business Systems Analyst 2 23 $84,156 $106,454
Business Systems Analyst 3 25 $93,530 $117,875
Business Systems Analyst 4 27 $103,784 $127,830

All salary grades for trainees titles are non-statutory (NS) equated to the salary grade identified. These grade equations apply to the starting salaries in their respective salary schedule for the traineeship levels.

Job Description

Individuals in this job title work as a liaison between stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies and information systems. Duties may include: conducting general requirements gathering activities for improvement or automation of simple processes or functions; researching and documenting the current or "as-is" state of the relevant business process or function; utilizing basic requirement elicitation techniques such as individual interviews, surveys, and documentation reviews; functioning as a recording analyst on more complex group interviews; assisting senior analysts in gathering requirements for larger more multi-faceted projects or systems and internal or external interfaces with these systems; creating process, data, or other models utilizing modeling techniques requiring a lower level of training and experience; participating in the implementation of system or interface change and enhancements; conducting specific system tests utilizing test scenarios developed by senior analysts; developing test data and document test results; training on new procedures and software and the creation of procedure manuals; post implementation review and assessment; and identifying, analyzing, and resolving issues for existing systems resulting from errors detected during implementation or in production.

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