Requirements Engineer

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEER

Randstad Professionals are one of the leading recruitment companies in Switzerland and with a dedicated IT contracting team in Zurich. We are excited to help you in your search. We focus on finding the best contracts for the best contractors.

Currently we are looking for a REQUIREMENTS ENGINEER to join our client's team in Zurich.

ROLES OVERVIEW:

- supports business in its duties through IT support and documentation to provide a common understanding between the client who use the application and the IT people who built, test and maintain it now and in the future
- understand business drivers and what needs to be delivered from a business and IT point of view
- obtain understanding of and commitment to requirements
- develop, manage, estimate dimensions and consolidate information on the requirements of the project's customers, products and product components according to the requirements engineering process

KEY DELIVERABLES:

- elicit and elaborate requirements
- model and document requirements understandable for clients and subsequence roles within IT
- ensure that specification of the user's needs is accurate, complete and unambiguous
- maintain traceability between requirements and between requirements and requests
- identify impact of changes on the existing requirements
- provide inputs to a first test strategy for the application
- provide input to the Project Manager for prioritizing requirements
- supports testing phase by giving input, review test strategy and test cases

MANDATORY EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

- university degree or similar education preferably in information technology or information management
- requirements engineering experiences on IT side within financial institutions of > 6 years
- well experienced in eliciting requirements from business subject matter experts and writing business rules and interface specifications for the developers
- good understanding of financial instruments like Swaps, Forwards, Options, Warrants, Futures, Notes/Certificates, etc. as well as corporate actions and sell/buy transaction of mentions products
- solid theoretical understanding and practical experience of use case modelling (UML) in IT projects
- understands software development processes

BENEFICIAL EXPERIENCE (ORDERED BY PRIO):

- IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering or a similar certificate
- well banking-knowhow about tax, namely about US Withholding Tax (FATCA, Qualified Intermediary)
- experience in using tools like JIRA, Polarion, Enterprise Architect 9.x
- project management experience

Whether this role is the right fit or you would like to see if there are others that do, our dedicated and expert team is looking forward to hearing from you.

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