spring-boot yaml configuration standalone

Is it possible to leverage Spring-Boot's YAML configuration outside a spring-boot application? i.e Can we use just the YAML config feature adding the spring-boot dependency?

My usecase is a small utility project which needs configuration and YAML approach is apt. If I wire this to the master project (which is a Spring-Boot app), all is fine. But if I want to test this utility project separately (simple java-app) it doesn't get the configuration wired. Any thoughts? may be I'm missing something basic here.

Sample code snippet below. The below package is part of the component-scan.

@Component
@ConfigurationProperties(prefix="my.profile")
public class TestConfig {

    private List<String> items;

    public List<String> getItems() {
        return items;
    }

    public void setItems(List<String> items) {
        this.items = items;
    }
}

YAML Config

my:
    profile:
        items:
            - item1
            - item2