software analyst
Code 2512.2
The software analyst (analista funcional o analista de sistemas) translates business needs into requirements, use cases and acceptance criteria for the delivery team. Use this Job Dictionary profile to differentiate functional analysis from pure development.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- Modelado estadístico y predictivo
- Técnicas de normalización y análisis de datos
- software design methodologies
- software architecture models
- data models
- ICT system user requirements
- legal requirements of ICT products
- business requirements techniques
Skills and competences
- Analizar datos para la gestión de programas
- Atender inquietudes sobre ciberseguridad
- Presentar los resultados del análisis de datos
- analyse business processes
- create software design
- create data models
- define software architecture
- define technical requirements
- develop software prototype
- design information system
- execute feasibility study
- develop documentation in accordance with legal requirements
- manage ICT legacy implication
- identify ICT user needs
- interact with users to gather requirements
- translate requirements into visual design
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What to assess for this role
Assess documentation clarity, strong stakeholder questioning and spotting ambiguity before build.
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Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.
- What does a software analyst do?
- Elicits requirements, models processes, prioritises with product and checks delivery against agreements.
- Is it the same as business analyst?
- They overlap. Software analysts sit closer to the system; BAs sometimes closer to the business process.
- What to assess when hiring?
- Ability to write testable requirements and mediate between business and engineering.
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences