Business Analyst
Discovery
Sandton - 1 Discovery Place, GP, 2196
Salary not specified - Full-time
Job Description
About the Role
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. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.
Responsibilities
- Business Case
- Assist the Systems Architect and/or business to articulate the benefits they wish to realize with the solution. Facilitating the development of a Technical Design or Business Case.
- Agile Methodology
- Design and validate the functional solution using Agile Methodology.
- This involves interpreting the product / technical requirements into Agile Epics and Stories
- Plan Agile Sprints and Stories for the Sprint
- 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 Agile Story Board by interview business and technical owners, as well as experienced members of the development team (Development Manager, Architect, Snr BA).
- Design a set of test cases/scripts, test scenarios and test data sets to accompany the Agile Story Board
- Validate the Agile Epics and Test Basket with the 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. Maintain and update the Agile Story Board (Epics and Stories) with any added content.
Requirements
- Behavioral Skills
- Time management and prioritization
- Creativeness
- Curiosity
- Learning orientation
- Negotiation skills
- Innovation
- Technical Skills
- Agile Methodology
- Project Management
- SQL queries
- Business Writing Skills
- Presentation and Facilitation Skills
- Solution Architecture
- Process Mapping
- Entity Diagram mapping
- Software testing pack design, functional testing
- Informatics or other relevant degree
- 3
- 5 years Business Analyst experience
- Agile Methodology Certification
- 1 year Software Development experience
- Honours degree
- 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
