Business Unit: Discovery Central Services
Function: Business Analysis
Date: 12 Sep 2024
Discovery – Group Information Services: Digital Channels
Business Analyst
About Discovery
Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best.
About Digital Channels
The Digital Channels team works on dynamic new projects and product enhancements within the web and mobile platforms in order to improve business inefficiencies, gain competitive advantage on our products and ultimately to provide better service to our clients.
Key Purpose
Understanding the business requirements, and through a structured process documenting, validating and translating it into functional specifications that are used by developers to craft a technical solution. Testing and validating the functionality of the technical solution against the business requirements. Interfacing between the business client and the development team with regards to the business and functional requirements.
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
Business Case
- Assist business to articulate the benefits they wish to realize with the solution. Facilitating the development of a Business Case.
Product Requirements Specification (PRS)
- Design and validate the functional solution.
- This involves interpreting the CRS into a set of Product Requirements Specification (PRS).
- Apply knowledge of the system, interfaces and dependencies to highlight integration aspects that must be considered.
- Identify a set of stakeholders that need to be involved in creating and validating the PRS.
- Design a set of test cases/scripts, test scenarios, and test data sets to accompany the PRS.
- Validate the PRS and Test Basket with the client and identified stakeholders and obtain sign-off.
Release Notes & Training Material
- Update and publish release notes related to the current system changes implemented, and notify impacted parties.
Personal Attributes and Skills
Behavioral Skills
- Stress Management
- Time management and prioritization
- Creativeness
- Learning orientation
- Negotiation skills
- Innovation
Technical Skills
- Project Management
- SQL queries
- Business Writing Skills
- Presentation and Facilitation Skills
- Solution Architecture
- Process Mapping
- Entity Diagram mapping
- Software testing pack design, functional testing
Education and Experience
Minimum
- Informatics or other relevant degree
- 3 year business analyst experience
- Mobile App project delivery experience (Android and iOS)
Methodologies
Tools
- Enterprise architect
- Visio
- SoapUI (SOAP) / REST client (JSON)
- Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence)
Processes
- ITIL (Incident, Release, Problem Management)
Technologies
- SQL (Oracle and IBM Netezza)
- UML
- XML
- JSON
Other
- Software architecture
- JAD sessions
- Data modelling techniques
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