Description
For its development team working on in-house developed products, our client is actively looking for a functional analyst/testing with IT development background who will be able to:- Understand and model business requirements related to gas flow management processes (specifically metering business), this with regards to the existing models and systems.
- Participate in support interventions on (critical) production systems.
- Participate in sorting, prioritizing and sizing the developments required to answer the requirements.
- Participate in definition of possible points of improvements either for applications or for team operations.
- Produce IT specifications based on the CBD principles and making use of the most suited modeling tools following the client's methodology.
- Assist the developers in producing a quality code, based on the specifications.
- With assistance of the testing team, produce test scenarios to be used for system and integration testing.
- With assistance of the testing team execute acceptance tests with end users.
- Participate in the accreditation process of one product against international standards (testing, documentation, ...)
Tasks:
- Analyze, understand and document business requirements or problems.
- Analyze existing documentation and gather information from within the Project Team and from the business.
- Take initiatives for meetings with the business and the team and be responsible for the follow up.
- Document business processes using Activity Diagrams
- Produce functional system specifications
compliant to the client's methodology standards, CBD oriented (Component Based Development)
- Produce business component interface specifications compliant to the client's (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
- Follow accreditation process and produce needed IT documentation
Requirements:
EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE:
- 3 languages are MANDATORY: Ability to communicate in Dutch (spoken) AND French (spoken) AND English (written).
- Background knowledge on gas flow management domain is an asset
- Sound knowledge of the UML modeling language
- Sound knowledge of Business Process Modeling techniques (including Role Activity Diagrams)
- Sound knowledge of the CBD principles
- 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 codebase.
- Analytical and synthesizing skills to clearly define problems and requirements and determine solutions for them that suit the controllable impact on mission-critical
applications.
- Experience in software testing
- Sound knowledge of a test methodology (TMap, STBox, ISTQB, ...)
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's methodology standards (CBD)
- Fluency in the use of the following tools:
o documentation-communication tools (Microsoft Office or equivalent)
o modeling 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.
- The ability to identify crucial parts of the systems and develop a testing strategy to ensure the system quality.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
- Skills when interviewing users; listening actively to their needs, asking the right questions and interpreting the answers accurately
- Ability to communicate the semantics of formal and precise models to users in a digestible form
- Ability to communicate the details of the specifications to developers
PERSONAL SKILLS
- Ability to work relatively independently and proactively following the priorities and timing of the project plan, under supervision of the project leader.
- Ability to detect priority conflicts, be able to advise on possible options and discuss
solution with stakeholders
- Analytical skills allowing rapid learning of various and new businesses or technical matters in the context of multi products maintenance.
- Ability to work in a structured way following the procedures of the project (check-in, check-out, time sheet reporting, punctuality)
- Ability to work according to rules, standards and guidelines defined in the architecture
- Good balance between methodological approach and respect for practical constraints.
- Ability to communicate realistic predictions about the analysis work
- Ability to adapt to the evolving set of methods and tools.
- Customer, solution and improvement minded
- Team