Senior Business Analyst

SUMMARY:
The Role:

A focus client is looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join for a 12 month contract. 

12 Month Contract - Remote until further notice
Preferably Gauteng Based

Essential:

• Matric
• NQF Level 7: Relevant Bachelorâ??s Degree and BA Certification or BA Diploma or Advance...
  
  

  POSITION INFO:
  The Role:

  A focus client is looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join for a 12 month contract. 

  
  12 Month Contract - Remote until further notice
  Preferably Gauteng Based

  Skills and Experience:

  Essential:

  • Matric
  • NQF Level 7: Relevant Bachelorâ??s Degree and BA Certification or BA Diploma or Advanced BA Qualification

  Technical Skills:

  • Visio
  • Jira
  • Business writing skills
  • Communication (Presentation and facilitation skills)
  • Process mapping
  • Stakeholder management
  • End User Acceptance Testing (BAV)
  • Technologies: Enterprise architect, SoapUI / REST, XML, JSON, SQL
  • Processes: ITIL     (Incident,    Change,    Release,    Problem Management),
  • Test Analyst skills

  
  
  

  Key Accountabilities:

  Interaction with People:

  • Lead requirements-gathering sessions and workshops, brainstorming sessions and status meetings with business stakeholders
  • Interact with technical team members such as solution architects, developers and system

  analysts

  • Work with the Experience Design and design team on requirements for new customer journeys, giving input on business
  • Interface with offshore development teams in different time zones
  • Work with external partners regarding data integration efforts
  • Communicate relevant information regarding project impacts to business stakeholders
  • Provide mentorship regarding best practices for documentation, story structure, and analysis processes for other Analysts
  • Interact with business stakeholders at all levels of the organization

  Documentation:

  • Document business requirements in the form of BRDs, use cases, user stories and business rules
  • Create as-built specifications for consumption by business and operations stakeholders
  • Create educational and reference content for internal departments and functions
  • Create specifications for technical system functionality
  • Document business requirements for data integration purposes
  • Complete documentation for â??Definition of Doneâ? under the business analyst tasks

  Process:

  • Lead agile ceremonies as part of the SDLC
  • Produce estimates for proposed work to inform enhancement costs
  • Perform risk analysis on proposed development initiatives
  • Identify and drive process or other solutions to improve business results, product performance and client satisfaction
  • Employ critical thinking and problem-solving skills during analysis to inform creative solutions

  Technology:

  • Understand mobile interface and application technologies for iOS and Android
  • Understand data exchange formats (XML, CSV) and protocols (FTP, HTTP)
  • Understand browser-based technologies, g., HTML, HTML forms, CSS and JavaScript
  • Understand UML Process Design and data modelling

  Project knowledge:

  Key skills and expectations:

  • On time delivery with rigorous attention to detail is a must
  • Manage multiple concurrent tasks and projects
  • Be optimistic, outgoing, confident, curious and self-driven
  • Gathers requirements from business on big and small projects
  • Drafts and gets peer buy-in for functional requirements specifications
  • Reviews unit testing pack
  • Facilitates UAT and JAD session for implementation and roll
  • Oversees and reviews post implementation testing, support and maintenance
  • Produce an accurate Business Requirements document with approval from all stakeholders
  • Accurately document functional requirements specifications clearly defining project objectives
  • If required, revert back to client or other stakeholders if technical issues require business decisions in order to proceed. Answer queries from the development team on business or functional aspects of the required
  • Defends the client business
  • Identifies and design a set of test cases/scripts, test scenario''s and test data sets to accompany the
  • Validates the BRD and Test Basket with the client and identified stakeholders and obtain sign-off.
  • Presentations and walk-through Obtain sign-off on documents
  • Perform project estimation for BA tasks
  • Make recommendations for requirements approaches
  • Present to senior stakeholders and team
  Personality and Attributes:
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Accurate
  • Ability to grasp concepts quickly
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • An ability to prioritise tasks and work under pressure
  • Proactive
  • Must be willing to work overtime when required (including weekends where necessary)
  • An openness to work with others and build on team input.
  • Must have pride in their work and a desire to deliver perfection at all times. Quality is non-negotiable
  • Able to establish a collaborative relationship with the systems area
  • The individual must have a strong desire for self-learning
  • Good work ethic
  Other:

  Behavioral Skills

  • Stress Management
  • Time management and prioritization
  • Learning orientation
  • Innovation
  • Bias for action
  • Teamwork and co-operation
  • Strong management skills
  
  
  

   

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