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Eurofins Functional Analyst in Dublin, Ireland
Why are we here?
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.
In a nutshell
As a Functional Analyst, you will define the functional specifications in close cooperation with the business analysts and the scrum teams. You will analyse the system in an Agile way, focus on functional software needs and decompose complex requirements into User Stories that the scrum team can work on.
Where will you be based and what business will you support?
Based in Dublin, you will be joining our geographically dispersed ComLIMS team, one of our IT Solutions that manages our commercial, sales and communications of our users and clients across laboratories.
How can you help us?
You will:
Collaborate with business analysts and architects, through and Agile approach- on functional analysis, solution design, implementation plans, gap and data analysis;
Write clear and well-structured specifications (user stories) for bugs and new functionalities including detailed acceptance criteria;
Follow up with user stories end to end in the 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;
Closely interact with QA team members during acceptance criteria refinement meetings, test case reviews, sprint demo meetings;
Assist business analysts in UML modelling and service contract creation and review;
Provide assistance to the third line support of the application;
Manage bug reports;
Assist with the qualification of releases in close cooperation with the program's release management team and key stakeholders;
Manage documentation with a high quality level: release notes, second line support release presentations, online help, etc;
Work on reporting, including reporting on delays and implementation risks.
Are you our kind of extraordinary?
You have:
At least 3 years of experience within software development, either as a functional analyst, business analyst or project manager;
Hands- on SQL experience;
Understanding of, and experience with UML;
Good listening and communication skills (oral and written);
Natural ability to go into details;
Strong focus and commitment;
Strong interest to go further;
Critical/analytical mind set;
Problem-solving skills;
Clear and concise documentation and specification skills;
Relationship building skills and facilitation skills;
Self-management including time and priority management skills.
What else should I know?
The following skills are an advantage:
Experience with Scrum;
Knowledge of Service-Oriented-Architecture;
Experience with software development management tools (e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps);
Experience in testing the functionalities delivered by development teams.
What can we offer you?
A competitive salary package, including bonus and benefits;
Extensive on-the-job coaching and training opportunities;
A hybrid working setup;
Challenges within a multi-cultural and cross-regional team as part of the international and fast-growing Eurofins organization;
A dynamic working environment with a good team spirit where personal development and growth are highly encouraged.
Your application:
As the role and Eurofins' IT Talent Acquisition team are international, please ensure to submit your application in English.
Want to know more about us?
We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.
We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.
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!
Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/
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. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.
In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 62 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.
In 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.