• Develops and prepares diagrammatic plans for solution of business, scientific and technical problems by means of computer systems of significant size and complexity;
• Analyses the problems outlined by the systems analysts/designers in terms of such factors as style and extent of information to be transferred to and from storage units, variety of items to be processed, extent of sorting, and format of final printed results;
• Selects and incorporates available software programs;
• Designs detailed programs, flow charts, and diagrams indicating mathematical computation and sequence of machine operations necessary to copy and process data and print the results;
• Translates detailed flow charts into coded machine instructions and confers with technical personnel in planning programs;
• Verifies accuracy and completeness of programs by preparing sample data, and testing them by means of system acceptance test runs made by operating personnel;
• Corrects program errors by revising instructions or altering the sequence of operations;
• Tests instructions, and assembles specifications, flow charts, diagrams, layouts, programming and operating instructions to document applications for later modification or reference.

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