Agile Functional Analyst

Agile Functional Analyst - Function Description
For its development team working on in-house developed products, our client is actively looking for an functional analyst who will be able to:
Blend in with an agile software development team, developing business products in short development cycles (using scrum)
Understand and model business requirements related to gas flow management processes (specifically allocations, billing and business intelligence), while respecting the existing architecture and systems.
Interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational specifications, leveraging modelling tools.
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
Participate in support interventions on (critical) production systems
Help to produce test scenarios for system and integration testing
Assist the testing expert in and execute system tests and 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, information models and sequence diagrams.
Produce functional system specifications compliant to our client's methodology standards, CBD oriented (Component Based Development)
Produce business component interface specifications
Produce & follow-up test scenarios on a component and system level
Review functional system specifications of peers
Review business component interface specifications of peers

Experiencelistening 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
Goal directed attitude
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 communicate in Dutch (spoken) or French (spoken) and English (written).

Customer, solution and improvement minded
Team player