System Analyst

Systems analysts investigate and analyse business problems and then design information systems that provide a feasible solution, typically in response to requests from their business or a customer. They gather requirements and identify the costs and the time needed to implement the project. The job needs a mix of business and technical knowledge, and a good understanding of people. It’s a role for analyst programmers to move into and typically requires a few years’ experience from graduation.

Key skills include:

ability to extract and analyse information,
good communication
persuasion
sensitivity

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What System Analyst can do?

A systems analyst may:

Identify, understand and plan for organizational and human impacts of planned systems, and ensure that new technical requirements are properly integrated with existing processes and skill sets.
Plan a system flow from the ground up.
Interact with internal users and customers to learn and document requirements that are then used to produce business requirements documents.
Write technical requirements from a critical phase.
Interact with designers to understand software limitations.
Help programmers during system development, e.g. provide use cases, flowcharts or even database design.
Perform system testing.
Deploy the completed system.
Document requirements or contribute to user manuals.
Whenever a development process is conducted, the system analyst is responsible for designing components and providing that information to the developer