• Develops and documents a detailed statement of requirements for the proposed alternative recommended in the preliminary analysis report;
• Analyses functional requirements to identify information, procedures and decision flows;
• Evaluates existing procedures and methods, identifies and documents data base content, structure, and application subsystems, and develops data dictionary;
• Defines and documents interfaces of manual to automated operations within application subsystems, to external systems and between new and existing systems;
• Defines input/output sources, including detail plan for technical design phase, and obtains approval of the system proposal.

• Designs and documents in detail all system components, their interfaces and operational environment;
• Designs data structures and files, subsystems and modules, programs, batch, on line, and production monitoring procedures, testing strategy and systems;
• Documents system design, concepts and facilities, presents and obtains approval of detailed system design;
• Writes user manual covering manual processes and operational procedures, defines user acceptance testing checklist and obtains user acceptance thereof;
• Identifies and documents system specific standards relating to programming, documentation and testing, covering program libraries, data dictionaries, naming conventions, etc.;
• Initiates hardware/software acquisition, develops conversion plans and parallel operation procedures, estimates resource and cost requirements.
• Duties of Implementation Analyst
• Produces an operational system including all forms, manuals, programs, data files, procedures and training material;
• Creates system production library, operations manual, training manuals, and test system;
• Implements quality assurance standards to be used during implementation phase, designs programs and presents program design, and writes modules and procedures;
• Develops test system and test modules, programs, subsystems, system and procedures, analyses performance and tunes system, and completes system documentation;
• Performs independent verification and validation (IV & V) of software applications and systems function and performance.

• Reviews documentation standards and the existing project documentation;
• Determines documentation requirements and makes plans for meeting them;
• Gathers information concerning the features and functions provided by automated information systems from users and system developers;
• Assesses the audience for the manuals which are required and prepares a statement of purpose and scope for each manual;
• Develops a table of content for each manual and writes or edits the required content;
• Investigates the accuracy of the information collected by making direct use of the system being documented;
• Assists the development team in testing the application prior to implementation;
• Prepares or coordinates the preparation of any required illustrations and diagrams;
• Designs the layout of the manuals. Uses word processing, desk top publishing and graphics software packages to produce final camera-ready copy;
• Prepares training materials;
• Establishes, presents and obtains approval of detailed plan for installation phase.

• Works very closely with the users in order to maintain and safeguard the database;
• Identifies requirements for improvements to existing databases by determining users' information requirements and system performance and functional requirements;
• Maintains data dictionaries;
• Develops and implements procedures that will ensure the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of data stored in the database;
• Mediates and resolves conflicts among users' needs for data;
• Develops and implements security procedures for the database, including access and user account management;
• Advises programmers, analysts, and users about the efficient use of data;
• Maintains configuration control of the database;
• Performs and/or coordinates updates to the database design;
• Controls and coordinates changes to the database, including the deletion of records, changes to the existing records and additions to the database;
• Develops and coordinates backup, disaster recovery and virus protection procedures.

As a member of the system development team and in conjunction with the project team headed by a project leader and/or project manager, supervises the activities of systems analysts, programmer-analysts and programmers engaged in the planning, development and implementation of significant new and modified computer systems.