Agile Business Analyst at Mukuru

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with stakeholders across all levels and business areas to elicit requirements.
• Assist stakeholders and Scrum team in prioritization of work in order to maximize return on investment (ROI).
• Analyse business needs, document requirements and translate needs into functional and non-functional specifications/user stories.
• Facilitate requirements gathering through interview, requirements workshops, etc.
• Maintain a steady backlog of requirements that are ready to go into sprints for the Scrum team.
• Support the day-to-day needs of Scrum teams in understanding customer and business requirements.
• Liaise with the development team for estimation on work.
• Work with the QA department to ensure functionality matches business requirements.
• Assist in drafting user and training documentation.
• Liaise with various industry partners around service integration and product offerings.

Requisite Skills:

• An undergraduate degree preferably with an Information Systems focus.
• Minimum 3 years solid experience as a Business Analyst.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to manage stakeholder expectations.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to obtain descriptive and exhaustive requirements from stakeholders.
• Ability to translate requirements into user stories, activity diagrams and use cases.
• A good understanding of project scoping, project management, prioritisation.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum).

Desired Personal Traits:

• A strong personality.
• A self-organising attitude and a strong will to get the job done.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Should be a self-starter, quick learner, capable of setting priorities and remain efficient while multi-tasking.

Bonus / Beneficial:

• Recognized business analysis or information systems qualification.
• Business analysis experience in the financial or retail industry.
• Payments experience.
• Experience dealing with compliance regulations.