Business Analyst

• Provide business analysis support within the iterative and agile project delivery phases
  
• Report progress of assignment on a regular basis to Project and Product Management, raise any issue and concerns and propose mitigation strategies.
  
• Conduct feasibility analysis, project scoping and provide project work estimates.
  
• Conduct Joint Requirements Planning and Joint Application Design sessions.
  
• Analyze and map processes / data for current state and future state.
  
• Requirements development involving requirements elicitation, elaboration, analysis, specification and validation.
  
• Use of ministry mandated requirement management tools and templates for requirements (Microsoft DevOps)
  
• Review and feedback of technical design documents.
  
• Assist in managing backlog of user stories (epics, features, and story points)
  
• Conduct and/or participate in walkthroughs for each iteration
  
• Knowledge transfer to MEAB, MTO clients and I&IT Cluster at all stages of the assignment.
  
  The Deliverables include (but are not limited to):
  
  
• Business requirements / rules
  
• Business process models
  
• System Requirements specifications
  
• Business / Data Glossary
  
• Business and System use cases
  
• User epics, stories and themes / Product backlog and sprint plans
  
• Data requirements / models (conceptual / logical)
  
• Functional and Non-functional requirements
  
• Requirements Traceability Matrices\
  
• User Interface specifications, low and high-fidelity prototypes
  
• Report specifications
  
• Test plan/strategies, test cases
  
• Risks and Issues
  
• Status reports
  
• Work plans, e.g. requirements management plan
  
• Artefacts/documents required for enterprise architecture development from a business needs point-of-view (contextual and conceptual), as required for the Architecture Governance Point review process
  
• Other artefacts as determined by the project
  

Support to Development and Operations teams in following areas (but are not limited to):

• Building and testing support to development team
  
• Reviewing test strategy, test plan and cases
  
• Management of defect logs
  
• Testing Applications
  
• Supporting end-user inquiries
  
• Defining the integration test plan
  
• Defining the user acceptance test plan
  
• Identification and resolution of problems/issues
  
• Document and manage risks and liaise with other project teams to coordinate project interdependencies.
  
• Documentation of all artefacts in a shared project library
  
• Working with solution vendors (SaaS and COTS) to resolve issues and implement enhancements
  

 Support to Development and Test teams in following areas (but are not limited to):

• Building and testing support to development team
  
• Reviewing test strategy, test plan and cases
  
• Management of defect logs
  
• Testing Applications
  
• Supporting end-user inquiries
  
• Defining the integration test plan
  
• Defining the user acceptance test plan
  
• Identification and resolution of problems/issues
  
• Document and manage risks and liaise with other project teams to coordinate project interdependencies.
  
• Documentation of all artefacts in a shared project library.
  

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience working on iterative and agile software development projects utilizing common tools(MS DevOps) and techniques (product backlog)
  
• Experience with documenting user stories, planning and managing product backlog, planning and managing sprints, and implementing in an iterative manner
  
• Proven experience with sprint facilitation, interpretation of business needs to technical requirements, facilitation of project meetings for reviews
  
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills.
  
• Experience in conducting feasibility analysis, project scoping and providing project work estimates
  
• Experience with requirements development involving requirements elicitation, analysis, specification and validation
  
• Experience in reporting progress of assignment(s) on a regular basis to Project/Product Management and raise any issues / concerns and propose mitigation strategies.
  
• Can work effectively independently and in a team environment.
  
• Strong communication, interpersonal, collaboration, and negotiation skills to work seamlessly in an agile cross-functional team, with clients, vendor(s) and other stakeholders.
  
• Excellent facilitation, presentation, time-management and problem-solving skills.
  
• Able to build strong and trusting relationships while liaising effectively with internal and external stakeholders and solution delivery vendor(s).
  
• Strong leadership skills to provide advice and guidance on all aspects of user experience and design, assessing user characteristics, needs, goals, and opportunities.
  
• Creative, innovative, and can think outside the box to visualize solutions that meet business needs.
  
• Knowledgeable in design thinking, have a user-centric mindset and attention to detail.
  
• Creative, analytical approach and strong understanding of interaction design principles, including ability and experience to deliver mock-ups using advanced tools
  
• Able to resolve issues on time, provide options and recommendations.
  
• Able to prioritize change requests from clients and guide the team in determining how best to address them.