IT Business Analyst

**Company Description**
Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier, and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.
**Job Description** In a nutshell**

**IT Business Analyst ‑ Specific Assignments**:

- Write clear and well-structured specifications (user stories) for prioritised functionalities/projects including their mock-ups and detailed acceptance criteria;
- Follow up on your projects, together with scrum team you are involved in, including: user story priority management, preparing and leading various scrum meetings, assisting developers and QA team members during user story implementation phase;
- Collaborate with business analysts within the team to successfully deliver complex projects;
- Coach other business analysts with the purpose of sharing knowledge, best practices and expertise;
- Closely interact with QA team members during acceptance criteria refinement meetings, test case reviews, sprint demo meetings;
- Align with project stakeholders on design proposals;
- Assist Business Analysts in UML modelling and service contract creation and review;
- Assist with the qualification of releases in close cooperation with the program's release management team and key stakeholders;
- Manage bug reports and request for changes;
- Prepare and deliver presentations and training sessions on end-users’ features;
- Manage end user documentation with a high quality level: online help, release notes, customer forum, release presentations, etc.

**Project Deployment Coordinator ‑ Specific Assignments**:

- Perform stakeholder analysis;
- Define and maintain communication plan;
- Meet expectations set by Product Owner defining deployment actions, priorities, etc.;
- Maintain standardised deployment action plan and consider continuous improvements of it;
- Align with team colleagues and co-operate in the creation of all required stakeholders’ communication (e.g., training sessions, end-user documentation tools, release updates, etc.);
- Define, follow up and support migration activities required as part of the deployment projects;
- Closely follow up on defined actions list until their completion;
- Perform regular status updates for each deployment project to deployment project stakeholders and the internal program management;

**Qualifications** Are you our kind of extraordinary?**
- ** Bachelor or Master's Degree in Science, Engineering**, IT, etc. or equivalent;
- ** 3 to 5 years of experience in a similar role, as an IT Business Analyst** OR **Deployment Manager** OR **Project Coordinator**;
- Experience in **software implementation methodologies** is required;
- Experience in professional environments with **complex system integrations** is a strong asset;
- Experience in a **Service Oriented Architecture** (SOA) environment is a strong asset;
- Experience with **Scrum** is a plus;
- Understanding of and experience with **UML** is an asset;
- Knowledge of **SQL** is an asset;
- Experience in **Project Deployments**, **Product Release methods** and activities is a plus;
- Clear and concise **documentation and specification skills;**:

- Fluent **English**communication skills (written/oral) required. Knowledge of another language is a plus.

**Sustainability matters to us**We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal

**Company description**:Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services.