Our client in the Technology sector has a position available in their organization for an Agile Business Analyst.
Requirements:
- Matric/Grade 12
- Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent coursework in a related specialized field.
- Valid driver’s license and own transport.
- 3-5 years’ work experience in a relevant field
- Broad IT domain experience in three or more of the following areas: Business Analysis, Project Management, Business Intelligence, Quality Assurance, Maintenance and Support.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Interaction with and support the Product Owner to analyze their need and find solutions and fulfil the role of the Product Owner when deemed necessary for the prioritization of requirements.
- Work with business stakeholders to gather business requirements.
- Works with subject matter experts to get functional and non-functional requirements.
- Communicate these needs clearly and effectively to both business and technical
stakeholders. - Interact with users to get end-user requirements and feedback.
- Use various requirements gathering, analysis and elicitation methods to gather and validate requirements considering Agile best practices. Setup and run JAD sessions in an Agile to gather requirements in consideration of various stakeholders.
- Assists analyzing stakeholder objectives and the underlying issues arising, including investigations into business requirements and problems, and identifying potential benefits and available options for consideration.
Requirements Documentation
- Breakdown high-level requirements into smaller manageable tasks using the TIES method (Theme, Initiative, Epic, User story).
- Create User stories with various types of requirements, process flow, UI/UX designs and wireframes, and relevant acceptance criteria which serve to define the scope of the required works.
- Consolidate and confirm requirements, changes and sign-off from various sources and platforms, and maintain one source of truth and reference for documentation.
- Document risks, decisions and actions within the project scope and the strategy and management.
- Produce specific business cases and scenarios and defines and documents system acceptance criteria.
Prioritization or Backlog Grooming
- Ensures that issues, blockers, and uncertainties are mitigated effectively in an Agile approach.
- Works with the Product Owner, or works as a Product Owner to prioritize delivery.
- Supports the day-to-day needs of Scrum teams in understanding customer and business requirements.
- Liaise with the development team for estimation effort of work using appropriate sizing methods.
- Maintains a steady backlog of User Stories, tasks and bugs that are ready to go into sprints for the Scrum team.
- Performs backlog quality assurance of ensuring items going into sprints have all the required detailed information necessary for the planned and successful implementation of them.
- Identifies and assesses risks to the success of the project. Agrees on the project approach with stakeholders, prepares realistic plans (including quality, risk, and communications plans), and tracks activities against the project schedule, managing stakeholder involvement as appropriate.
Testing
- Ensures a comprehensive test coverage in acceptance criteria type, platforms, and devices for effective testing.
- Performs System Integrated and Unit Testing and checks before user testing with business stakeholders.
- Works with business stakeholders and QA (Quality Assurance) in leading User Acceptance Testing follows up on testing progress and defect resolution.
- Test analysis, risk prioritization, analysis of defect trends, and identification of risks associated with issues identified in the project.
Implementation / Delivery
- Ensures committed work is within the scope and manages scope creep during implementation.
- Works on projects using available frameworks and tools and establishes plans for projects with on-time and on-budget project goals.
- Maintains the status of projects and guides the work of junior team members.
- Delivers project to the client in the form of demos and sprint reviews after each iteration.
Required competencies:
- Stakeholder management
- Project management
- Financial management
- Risk management
- Team management
- Reporting & feedback
- Best practice UX principles
- Business rules and acumen
- Agile methodology
- Process mapping
- Build relationships
- Take the lead
- Unite and mobilize
- Communicates with diplomacy
- Provide support
- Anticipate challenges
- Innovate
- Take initiative
- Plan and organize
- React swiftly
- Handle stress
If you are not contacted within two weeks of applying, please consider your application unsuccessful.