POSITION TITLE: Business/Functional Analyst
REPORTING TO: Program Manager
REPORTING LOCATION: Bangalore
WORKING LOCATION: Bangalore
NUMBER OF FTEs UNDER RESPONSIBILITY: NA
SUMMARY OF POSITION AND OBJECTIVES: (maximum 500 characters (not including spaces) for short position posting and introduction of posting on Eurofins website and career portals)
We expect this role to work with business users. Elicits, analyse business needs of stakeholders. Document and work with different teams for solution implementation. Act as key bridge between business users and project development team.
POSITION & OBJECTIVES: (maximum 1000 characters (not including spaces) for posting on Eurofins website and career portals):
Job description:
- Understand high level objective of the business needs and expectations.
- Conducts interviews to gather customer requirements via workshops, questionnaires, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios etc
- Document the requirements in standard format for consumption (including use case, flowcharts etc.,)
- Works with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements in successful completion of the project.
- Ensuring good practices and high-quality standards are implemented and followed.
- Performing other related duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: (maximum 500 characters (not including spaces) for short position posting and for posting on Eurofins website and career portals)
QUALIFICATIONS
- Engineering Degree in Computer Science/MCA or any other Bachelor’s degree with the relevant experience.
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:
- 4 to 6 years of experience as Business Analyst / Functional Analyst for software solutions in development project or product.
- At least two full years of contribution to a single product / project a must.
- Experience with eliciting business requirements, creating Epics, Themes and User Stories. Eurofins follows Business requirements >> User Requirements >> User Stories as requirements flow.
- Must be able work with influence without authority
- Collaborate with Business Process Owners (GSC Compensation and Benefits Team) to elicit, review and document requirements.
- One should process strong documentation skills which should be easier to understand by business users as well as development team.
- Produce Scope and detailed requirements documented and signed-off by process owners
- Prepare and perform functional tests and make sure that acceptance criteria are met before releasing to end-user for UAT.
- Ensure that User Stories prepared and updated during the development life-cycle in order to have UpToDate specifications.
- As required, Review Test Scenarios and Test Cases provided by QA team.
- Should be able to make wireframes, mock-ups, flow diagrams and facilitate prototypes as necessary for a given situation.
- Strong background in Software Development/Engineering.
- Experience in testing the functionalities delivered by development team
- Knowledge of process modelling
- Escalate and follow-up on timely manner any and all issues that might be a blocker, issue, deviations for completion of software development.
- Contribute to the troubleshooting, tests and documentation of selected applications functions, at a high-quality level.
- Work with the development team to resolve issues.
- Will be an added advantage if worked on Human Resource related products/project and possess good understanding of Annual Review Process.
- Understand overall requirements and help in preparation of automation strategy (framework, priorities, planning which is to be integrated with overall project plan)
- Prepare Test schedules in accordance with project scope/delivery dates, if needed
- Strong analytical, problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Collaboration with Software Architect(s) and other technical groups within Eurofins (Includes design, documentation, prototyping and validation)
- Usage of MS Azure DevOps
*Mandatory Skills*
PERSONAL SKILLS
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal/written Communication, Interpersonal and Presentation skills. And can explain complex functional/technical concepts with ease (via diagrams, flowcharts etc.,).
- Should be a self-motivated, independent, detail oriented, responsible team-player and exhibit exceptional relationship skills
- Candidate to have do-it-done attitude; the ability to think critically; enjoy working with teams spread globally and across cultures; a desire to learn in new areas; and the discipline to pay attention to deadlines, details and quality.
- Experience in Agile (Scrum) methodologies needed.
- Ability to adapt quickly to an existing, complex environment.
- Ability to quickly learn new concepts and software is necessary
Methodology skills
- AGILE Development (Scrum)
PREFERED CANDIDATES:
- The successful candidate will have a self-motivated, get-it-done attitude; the ability to think critically; enjoy working with teams spread globally and across cultures; a desire to learn in new areas; and the discipline to pay attention to deadlines, details and quality.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills to interact with team in Europe
TRAVEL:
- Ready to travel to Europe (~10%) if project demands (requirements elicitation and possibly during production go-live)
About the Project:
ARP Tool is Human Resource Solution developed and in use from past 3+ years and caters to the unique Annual Review Process (ARP) of Eurofins. Due to success and value addition of the software, new enhancements are being requested/developed.
This is in-house software development project using state-of-the-art technologies and methodologies. Major focus areas are: Complex business rules, Workflow, UI/UX – intuitiveness, Security, Performance, etc.,
