Business/FEature analyst - Durban
IT Recruitment Specialists | Kontak Recruitment is currently recruiting and hiring for a Business/Feature Analyst based in Durban. The Analyst is accountable for guiding the clarification of the business requirements, through in-work collaboration with the business stakeholders , and working within the feature team to ensure these are delivered effectively.
Business Analyst (FEature analyst) (JB316) - post filled
Job Details for Business/FEature analyst
Business Analyst (Feature) (JB316)
Durban
R60 000 – R65 000 Per Month
The Feature Analyst is accountable for guiding the
clarification of the business requirements, through in-work collaboration with
the business stakeholders, and working within the feature team to ensure these
are delivered effectively.
Requirements:
Bachelor degree or relevant post graduate diploma in
Information Technology or Computer Science
Knowledge of agile
Experience with requirements elicitation, gathering,
documentation and management
Understanding business needs and be able to analyse
requirements
Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities:
Prioritize and plan work activities within the feature
team
Facilitate and participate in discovery/inception
workshops to create a shared understand of user needs and the potential
technology solution required to deliver these needs
Identify user journeys which map out how a user will go
through the system
Work ahead of the team to get clarity on some
requirements before the next iteration
Create relevant user stories
Collaborate with cross functional teams comprised of
product management, UX, Technology, support, testing and other subject matter
experts to gather and analyses functional needs and user story requirements.
Groom user stories through business interviews, workshops or procedures and map
user stories ensuring they come together as a cohesive whole.
Provide the product owner with key information for
prioritization and estimation
Facilitate and participate in iteration meetings (
product backlog grooming, planning meeting, daily stand up, review meeting and
retrospective)
Obtain sign off during iteration review sessions
Manage the stories (in JIRA), ensuring that all
requirements are loaded as stories, ensuring the stories as assigned to epics
Support showcasing stories to stakeholders
Work very closely with user experience team to ensure
that processes, wire frames and content are optimally intuitive to end users
Manage the Backlog for the feature team
Ensure that the activities needed to fulfil each item in
the backlog are identified, outlined and prioritized before the next sprint
Identify missing requirements
Clarify the goals and business value of minimum
marketable features/ minimal viable products
Clarify any ambiguity until it is understood by the team
Review user stories with the product owner with a
strategic point of view
Capture and keep the business and data rules up to dat3e
Ensure that where stories are blocked, these stories are
prioritized to other iterations and new stories identified to replace them in
the current iteration
Test cases for system
Work with users to develop acceptance criteria or test
cases for the system
Produce acceptance tests from acceptance criteria
Provide regular feedback by testing the deliverable against
a user story’s acceptance criteria
Provide regular feedback by validating that the product
meets the business goals
Provide support and input into system testing activities
including participating in the development of the testing approach, development
of test cases as well as the creation of testing scenarios
Collaborate with the team to deliver on backlog
Wear different hats: design, tester, facilitator, product
owner etc.
Create a shared understanding of what the product is
supposed to do
Collaborate with the rest of the feature team to ensure
that stories are delivered effectively and quality standards are adhered to
Collaborate with developers, testers and user experience
team to ensure that they are engaged ín the work’ to understand business context
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