Staffing Service USA (SSUSA)  is a locally owned and operated business and has been in business for over 27 years.  SSUSA provides flexible staffing, temp to hire, and permanent placement services specializing in Industrial, Office, and Professional Staffing. Please visit our website for additional information at www.staffingserviceusa.com for additional information.

We are seeking an Application Analyst for a temporary contract position with our client. This position will start immediately and go through September 2014. This is a full time position.

The Application Analyst is responsible for the following:

Plan, design, develop, test, and implement common systems consistent with client business needs. Duties may include administrative controls and requirements, developing charts and reports, costs and utilization, conduct feasibility studies, providing technical support, participating in analyzing and evaluation of requests for improving systems, maintenance changes to existing systems, development of complex new systems or system enhancements, and development of procedures, documentation, and training materials.

Responsibilities include:

- Investigate and recommend improvements to existing systems and operational methods to provide integration, standardization, and conversion of new systems with existing systems.
- Perform system maintenance duties to provide continuous system service.
- Analyze and resolve system problems. Make required corrections or assist a less senior staff member in making corrections to programs to ensure continuous system service.
- Work with the client or other systems personnel to resolve operating problems and reduce systems maintenance cost.
- Analyze current programs, systems, procedures, and practices with an emphasis on continual performance improvement.
- Work with client to develop detailed functional requirements needed to enhance existing systems or develop new systems.
- Assist with or prepare cost estimates, and support resource management utilization to ensure projects are completed on time and conform to company standards and guidelines.
- Plan, design, develop, test, document, and implement complex system enhancements or new systems according to specifications and company standard.
- Develop and/or provide leadership with ongoing projects and assignments.
- Advise on use of system hardware and software; dissemination of technical information; security, restart, recovery, back up and programming, and installation.
- Review test requirements, plan and execute quality assurance testing to ensure the delivery of error-free products to the client community. Duties include:
- Obtain written user verification that changes have been tested by business and they approve.
- Manage all aspects of the IBM change process including written instructions on the change details to put in a ticket, folder set-up locations, IDs, server communications, etc.
- Coordinate and resolve hardware/infrastructure issues related to the change (and application testing of the change if required)
- Written list of the details of the change from the software in business terms that can be sent out to explain the functions.
- Written business procedures related to applying the change to Production and new written application procedures related to change going forward
- Obtain written sign off from the user of the changes in production
- Communication with the business of process interruptions caused by the change.

Requirements:

- 3+ years in computer systems analysis design, programming.

-Degree or equivalent experience

- JD Edwards system qualifications include:
- 5 plus years of experience on JDE world
- 2 plus years of experience on JDE Manufacturing
- AS400 iSeries expert
- Cobol expert Analysis and Programmer
- CL expert Analyst and Programmer
- SQL & iSeries Query Manager Analyst and Programmer
- RPG basic knowledge
- IBM MQ Series basic knowledge

This is a temporary position that runs through September 2014.

Only qualified candidates should apply.

Pay rate is $25 - $35/hour

Submit resume to [email protected]