Agile Functional Analyst | Contract | Belgium

Agile Functional Analyst

Contract

Belgium

Ability to communicate in Dutch (spoken) or French (spoken) and English (written)

Function Description

For its development team working on in-house developed products; actively looking for an agile functional analyst with IT development background who will be able to:

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Blend in with an agile software development team, developing business products in short development cycles (using scrum)
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Understand and model business requirements related to gas flow management processes (specifically contracting, and data publishing), while respecting the existing architecture and systems.
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Interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational specifications, leveraging modelling tools and adhering for Agile methodology.
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Assist the developers in producing high quality products, based on defined specifications
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Contribute to the definition of enhancements for applications and team operations.
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Participate in estimating and prioritizing development activities required to address the business requirements
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Participate in support interventions on (critical) production systems
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Help to produce test scenarios for system and integration testing
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Assist the testing expert in executing acceptance tests with end users

Responsibility

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Business requirements are analysed, understood and documented in Epics and User Stories
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Writing effective user stories that are very clear and concise and are easy to understand and implement by the development team
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Analyse existing documentation and gather information from within the Project Team and from the business
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Take initiatives for meetings with the business and be responsible for the follow up.
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Document business processes using Activity Diagrams
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Produce functional system specifications compliant to Agile methodology standards, CBD oriented (Component Based Development)
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Produce business component interface specifications compliant to Agile methodology standards (CBD)
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Produce & follow-up test scenarios on a component and system level
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Review functional system specifications of peers
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Review business component interface specifications of peers

Experience & expertise

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background knowledge on gas flow management domain is an asset
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experience as agile analyst in a software development team
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sound knowledge of the UML modelling language
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sound knowledge of Business Process Modeling techniques (including Role Activity Diagrams)
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sound knowledge of the CBD principles
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knowledge of GUI design and user-friendliness oriented design
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knowledge of architectural techniques and structures
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Good technical affinity, able to do bottom-up reconstruction of application functionalities, starting from technical documentation or even codebase.
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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

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the ability to analyze functional problems and to choose the most appropriate solution
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the ability to produce precise and formal specifications for systems or business components compliant to the Agile methodology standards (CBD) fluency in the use of the following tools:
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documentation-communication tools (Microsoft Office or equivalent)
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modelling tools (UML based Case Tools like Enterprise Architect)
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change and configuration management tools (MS VSTS)
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project reporting tools (timesheet reporting)
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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.