Business Analyst - Will consider remote candidates - Contract
Overview
Reference
PDG2000482941
Salary
ZAR450 - ZAR520/hour
Location
- South Africa -- City of Cape Town -- Cape Town
Job Type
Contract
Posted
29 February 2024
Closing date
22 Mar 2024 23:59
Our Client, a Global Tech firm, is seeking a Business Analyst to join their team in Cape Town (will consider remote candidates) on a contract basis. They offer stability, growth, attractive rates, and a great working environment.
The Business Analyst's key function is to work with internal and external clients to determine requirements and define solutions to address complex business, process, and systems problems, as well as improvements in the organisation. The Feature Analyst is accountable for guiding the clarification of the business requirements through in-work collaboration with business stakeholders and working within the feature team to ensure these are delivered effectively.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Prioritize and plan work activities within the Feature Team/Product owner.
- Facilitate and participate in discovery/inception workshops to create a shared understanding of user needs and the potential technology solution required to deliver these needs.
- Identify user journeys that map out how a user will navigate through the system.
- Work ahead of the team to gain clarity on some (not all) 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 analyze functional needs and user story requirements. Groom user stories through business interviews, workshops, or procedures and ensure 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).
- Support showcasing stories to stakeholders.
Test Cases for System: - Clarify the goals and business value of Minimum Marketable Features/Minimal Viable Products.
- Review user stories with the Product Owner from a strategic point of view.
- Input into developing acceptance criteria or test cases for the system.
- Provide regular feedback by testing the deliverables against a user story's acceptance criteria.
- Validate 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, and creation of testing scenarios.
Collaborate with the Team to Deliver on Backlog: - Wear different hats: designer, tester, facilitator, product owner.
- 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.
- Engage with developers, testers, and the user experience team to ensure they understand the business context.
Skills Summary: Data Warehousing (DW), Integration Development, Process Mapping, Project Integration, Structured Query Language (SQL), Systems Integration, Use Case Development, Workflow Design.#J-18808-Ljbffr