Description
Senior Agile Functional Analyst/Business Analyst - 6 months - Brussels
The functional/Business Analyst must:
- have an IT Development background in .Net
- have been working with Agile/Scrum as a Functional/Business Analyst
- have used UML modelling
- speak English and either French or Dutch
- have very good communication skills as she/he will have to work with both the Business team and the Development team
For its development team working on in-house developed products, my client is actively looking for an agile functional analyst with IT development background who will be able to:
- Blend in with an agile software development team, developing business products in short development cycles (using scrum)
- Interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational specifications, leveraging modelling tools and adhering to the internal methodology.
- Assist the developers in producing high quality products, based on defined specifications.
- Contribute to the definition of enhancements for applications and team operations.
- Participate in estimating and prioritizing development activities required to address the business requirements
- Help to produce test scenarios for system and integration testing
- Assist the testing expert in executing acceptance tests with end users Responsibility
- Business requirements are analyzed, understood and documented in Epics and User Stories
- Writing effective user stories that are very clear and concise and are easy to understand and implement by the development team
- Analyze existing documentation and gather information from within the Project Team and from the business
- Take initiatives for meetings with the business and be responsible for the follow up.
- Document business processes using Activity Diagrams
- Produce functional system specifications compliant to the client methodology standards, CBD oriented (Component Based Development)
- Produce business component interface specifications compliant to the client methodology standards (CBD)
- Produce & follow-up test scenarios on a component and system level
- Review functional system specifications of peers
- Review business component interface specifications of peers Experience & expertise
- background knowledge on gas flow management domain is an asset
- knowledge of GUI design and user-friendliness oriented design
- knowledge of architectural techniques and structures
- Good technical affinity, able to do bottom-up reconstruction of application functionalities, starting from technical documentation or even code base.
- Analytical and synthesizing skills to clearly define problems and requirements and determine solutions for them that suit the with controllable impact on mission-critical applications.
Technical Skills:
- the ability to analyze functional problems and to choose the most appropriate solution
- the ability to produce precise and formal specifications for systems or business components compliant to the client methodology standards (CBD)
- fluency in the use of the following tools:
o documentation-communication tools (Microsoft Office or equivalent)
o modelling tools (UML based Case Tools like Enterprise Architect)
o change and configuration management tools (MS VSTS)
o project reporting tools (timesheet reporting)
- Sound knowledge of technical matters like databases, database queries, .NET architectures, code sourcing.
- Needed to be able to do bottom-up research for problem diagnostics and/or requirements impact analysis.
If you are interested in this exciting and challenging project send me your CV and I will call you.