AISB - 1072 - Senior Business Analyst & Tester

Abakus IT-Solutions; Namen; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Abakus IT-Solutions in Belgium seeks a Senior Business Analyst & Tester to support the update of a digital planning and environmental permits IT solution within a regional administration program. You will model processes, define requirements, write specifications, and help prepare a tender for the solution.

You will facilitate workshops, assist the testing team with acceptance criteria, and ensure deliverables are validated by business teams across multiple departments.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a functional analyst on complex IT projects.
• Confirmed level in Business Analysis.
• Experience writing specifications for complex IT solutions.

Responsibilities

• Support the project manager in steering the update of the IT solution.
• Draft and/or refine specifications for a new competitive tender.
• Model business processes and data flows across departments.
• Define functional and non-functional requirements with business teams.
• Write and share the requirements specification.
• Prepare, facilitate and document workshops with business teams.
• Support testing by writing acceptance and validation test scenarios.
• Assist business teams in executing test scenarios.
• Have deliverables validated by the business teams.
• Verify that the selected solution meets stated requirements.
• Coordinate with architects, Product Owners and other analysts for consistency.
• Suggest ways to simplify and pool processes within project constraints.

Skills

Functional analyst experience

Requirements gathering

Workshop facilitation

Cross-department collaboration

Education

Business Analysis level confirmed

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

AISB - 1072 - Senior Business Analyst & Tester

Context and project

A regional public administration is running a programme to digitalise planning and environmental permits. The programme’s IT solution needs to evolve to remain sustainable over time. A new competitive tender for this solution is being considered.

The role sits within the programme’s digital team. It involves direct work with the business departments in charge of the environment and spatial planning, as well as with their external partners.

Role and responsibilities

• Support the project manager in steering the update of the IT solution.
• Draft, if required, the specifications for a new competitive tender for the solution.
• Understand the context, objectives, concepts, terminology and rules of the business areas involved.
• Model business processes, including all data flows and exchanges between internal and external stakeholders, across several departments.
• Define functional and non-functional requirements in agreement with the business teams and the digital team.
• Write, maintain and share the requirements specification.
• Prepare, facilitate and document workshops with business teams.
• Support the testing team in writing acceptance and validation test scenarios, in line with the programme’s test and quality strategy.
• Assist business teams in executing test scenarios.
• Have all deliverables validated by the business teams.
• Verify that the selected solution meets the stated requirements.
• Coordinate with architects, Product Owners and other analysts to ensure a consistent analysis.
• Suggest ways to simplify and pool processes, within the project’s constraints.

Candidate profile

Education and experience

• Significant experience as a functional analyst, as a main activity, on complex IT projects.
• Confirmed level in Business Analysis.
• Experience writing specifications for complex IT solutions.

Essential technical skills

• Knowledge of the environmental permit domain: regulatory framework (decree) and processes.
• Experience in application testing, ideally with a structured testing method.
• Hands-on experience with JIRA and Confluence.
• Command of presentation, training, application demonstration and application documentation techniques and tools.
• Comfortable facilitating workshops and working with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Ability to work across several departments.
• Proactive approach and focus on simplification.
• Rigour in documenting and validating deliverables.

Languages

• French: full proficiency (C2).

Location and conditions

• Hybrid working, with at least 60% on-site presence, more if needed.