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Job title : EY Catalyst Business Analyst
Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg
Deadline : November 21, 2024
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Essential Functions of the Job
- Requirement gathering: Collaborate with stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document business requirements for new features and enhancements to existing software products.
- Functional specifications: Translate business requirements into clear and detailed software specifications for development teams, ensuring alignment with business goals and user needs.
- Data analysis: Analyze data to identify trends, patterns, and insights that can inform decision-making and product development efforts.
- User Experience optimization: Collaborate with the Product Owners and UX/UI designers to analyze user feedback, usability test results, and user behavior data to identify areas for improving the user experience, leading to increased user engagement and retention.
- User acceptance testing: Work closely with QA teams to ensure that new features and enhancements meet business requirements and are ready for deployment.
- Documentation: Create and maintain software documentation, including user manuals, training materials, and process documentation, to support internal teams and clients.
- Stakeholder management: Engage with stakeholders at all levels to understand their needs, communicate project status, and gather feedback to drive continuous improvement.
Analytical/decision making responsibilities
- Define procedures on how requirements will be managed.
- Determine ‘fit for purpose’ requirements.
- Select the appropriate analysis and specification models and ensuring that requirements are of high quality.
- Assess change requests related to requirements, determine overall impact and make recommendations.
- Analytical skills and problem-solving skills to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Ability to work independently – must be self-managed.
Knowledge and skills requirements
- Demonstrated experience in crafting requirements as related to the business and users, as well as functional and non-functional specifications.
- Experience in selecting and executing elicitation techniques such as interviews, exploratory prototypes, facilitated workshops, focus groups, observation, user task analysis, documentation study and surveys.
- Experience in managing relationships with senior stakeholders internally.
- Solid understanding of the following requirements models: stakeholder categories, actor tables, glossary, context diagram, data model, class model, data dictionary, event response tables, state diagrams, business rules, decision tables, process maps, use cases, and activity diagrams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills – must be able to communicate fluently in English both verbally and in writing. Must be able to produce client facing documentation.
- Strong collaboration skills.
Job Requirements
Education
- An honour’s level degree in computer science, information science or a relevant discipline; or equivalent work experience.
Experience:
- 5+ years in a Business Analyst role in a software development company.
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