SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:
Feature Analyst/Solution Analyst Needed: FTC 1 year: Banking Industry: Johannesburg
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
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Key Responsibilities:
Manage the Backlog for the Feature Team
- Facilitate and participate in discovery/inception workshops to create a shared understanding of user needs and the potential technology solution required to deliver to 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 (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 analyse 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 prioritisation 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 are assigned to epics.
- Support showcasing stories to stakeholders
- Work very closely with user experience team to ensure that processes, wireframes, and content are optimally intuitive to end-users
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 deliverables 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: designer, 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 ‘in the work’ to understand business context
Work alongside Solution Architecture discipline to support end to end solution engineering
- Document analytical insights gained from requirements elicitation sessions as well as options or
- design considerations discussed or shared so that these can be used further through the solution engineering process.
- Identify current and future state business processes, functional context views and system
context views, as required.
- Collaborate architects, developers, and subject matter experts to establish the technical solution views and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
- Help the business stakeholders envision the solutions will address the requirements.
- Facilitate the elicitation of non-functional requirements. Engage in unpacking the scenarios and aspects that contribute to those requirements.
- Contributing to upfront sizing and assessment of work items (user stories and or tasks) in the Engineering Runway process for the purpose of informing planned delivery and discussion with business.
- Baselining of any requirements or systems specifications irrespective of its level of completion and evolving to a point of completion.
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
- Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal parties / stakeholders to analyse information needs and functional requirements and deliver the necessary artefacts as needed or agreed: Functional requirements (Business Requirements Document), Use Cases, GUI, Screen and Interface designs, System flows / Sequence flows and Context Views
- Utilize experience in using enterprise-wide requirements definition and management systems and methodologies required.
- Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
- Work independently with users to define concepts and under direction of solution architectures
- Assess and challenge assumptions that based on analysis do not appear to be feasible either technically or from a planned execution perspective.
- For system focused analysis, delivering elements of systems design, including data mapping between systems, analysing interface specifications, validation and rules mapping, data transformation requirements
- Ability to work well with ambiguity typically found in the initial stages of projects or business demand items.
- Assisting in the shaping of scope, requirements and impacts shout priorities need to be reshuffled.
- Ability to provide review of interviews and planning session outputs including review of the Business Objectives (the business risks, problems, and opportunities to be addressed in the new proposal), walkthrough and review of Business Requirements Specification, walk through and review of Benefits Realisation Plan.
Qualifications:
- Relevant Degree or Diploma in Information Technology and Computer Sciences
- Must have knowledge of Agile Methodology.
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Recruitment Note:
- Communication will only be with shortlisted candidates
- Please apply with a detailed cv
- By applying for this position, you confirm that you have no, criminal, civil or credit record
- Please confirm your disability in your cv
- It will be assumed that you have a drivers’ license unless otherwise indicated
- Please mail your cv to: jino.swart@isilumko.co.za
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