Business Analyst

Recruiter:

A 1L Realization (Pty) Ltd

Job Ref:

JHB000250/VB

Date posted:

Thursday, June 30, 2022

Location:

Midrand, South Africa

JOB SUMMARY:
Our client in the Telecommunications sector requires a Business Analyst on a contract basis.

The Business Analyst helps to support and maximize the effectiveness of the Product Owner, supporting the creation of user stories to an adequate level of granularity, assessing options for technical and business feasibility, and ensuring development is aligned to business outcomes. This role is responsible providing business information during release and iteration planning, as well as supporting the review, refine and re-prioritization of the release backlog. This role provides regular feedback by testing deliverables against a user story’s acceptance criteria and provides regular feedback by validating that the product meets the business goals. The incumbent is responsible for supporting everyday reporting, facilitation, and communication.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

User story definition and refinement and team backlog management
Agile software development environment and methods, e.g. Scrum, TDD, BDD, Kanban
Business and systems analysis in a large digital environment
Development of software systems in Web-scale environments
User and technical acceptance test design, execution, and validation
Market research, design thinking, and lean start-up methods (MVPs)
Customer experience design of digital products and services
Analytics / AB / multivariate testing and related tools
Data-driven decision making
Expertise in supporting team facilitation and management tools, e.g., JIRA/Confluence, MS Project
Understanding of fundamentals of software development processes and procedures, as well as supporting systems and architecture
Strong facilitation and organization skills
Strong relationship building and communications skills
Excellent verbal and written communications and collaboration skills, with the ability to work closely with the delivery team to deliver user stories
Strong time-management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple balls, and comfortable working under pressure
Strong problem-solving skills
A strong customer-centric focus, with an entrepreneurial and ROI mindset
Good understanding of the business capability / user journey, wider organizational goals, and desired product business outcomes
Flexible with planning, controlling the activities of the team and work estimation, able to continuously balance between the customer and commercial needs
Strong understanding of both the current Telecommunications and digital services market and emerging business and technology trends

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field
A total of at least five years relevant work experience of which at least two or more years is in supporting successful delivery in Business Analysis (or equivalent role) across full product lifecycles, from MVP to marketable products in iterations, including support transition
Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, BDD and ATDD
Experience in the use of analytics and AB / multivariate testing preferred
Experience managing senior stakeholders
Professional experience and knowledge of the telecommunications industry strongly preferred
JIRA/Confluence, MS Project, or equivalent experience preferred

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