Mobile Business Analyst (Senior)
About Discovery
Discoverys 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.
About Vitality RSA Systems
Discovery Vitality RSA Systems is a dynamic and energetic environment which encourages an ownership attitude. The environment provides innovative systems development, architecture, support and infrastructure to our internal clients. This environment thrives on customer engagement and customer experience as well as mutually beneficial relationships with our business units and other key stakeholders. It is important for our employees to provide a world class service to our internal and external clients, thereby ensuring long and sustainable relationships.
Key Purpose
Understanding the business requirements and through a structured process documenting, validating and translating it into functional specifications that are used by developers to craft a technical solution. Testing and validating the functionality of the technical solution against the business requirements. Interfacing between the business client and the development team with regards to the business and functional requirements. Ensuring that the business requirements are delivered in the implemented solution. Working with multiple business areas and multiple teams that require deep integration of solutions. Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients and acting as a consultant on the application.
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
Business Case
- Assist business to articulate the benefits they wish to realize with the solution. Facilitating the development of a Business Case.
- Design and validate the functional solution.
- This involves interpreting the CRS into a set of Product Requirements Specification (PRS).
- 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 PRS. 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 scenario's and test data sets to accompany the PRS.
- Validate the PRS and Test Basket with the client and identified stakeholders and obtain
- Update and publish release notes related to the current system changes implemented, and notify impacted parties. Maintain and update the BRS and PRS with any added content.
Behavioural competencies
- Stress Management
- Time management and prioritization
- Creativeness
- Learning orientation
- Negotiation skills
- Innovation
- Project Management
- SQL queries
- Business Writing Skills
- Presentation and Facilitation Skills
- Solution Architecture
- Process Mapping
- Entity Diagram mapping
- Software testing pack design, functional testing
Minimum
- Informatics or other relevant degree
- 5 years business analyst experience
- Mobile experience
- Dip.BA (FTI or equivalent)
- 1 year user interface analyst experience
- Honours degree
- Business experience and product knowledge
- Waterfall and Agile
- Enterprise architect
- Visio
- SoapUI (SOAP) / REST client (JSON)
- Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence)
- ITIL (Incident, Release, Problem Management)
- Technologies
- SQL (Oracle and IBM Netezza)
- UML
- XML
- JSON
- Software architecture
- JAD sessions
- Data modelling techniques
The Companys approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
