Business Analyst - Bellville at Pragma Global

Job Advert Summary    

The Business Analyst is responsible for understanding business problems and coordinating solutions within the software development team. The role requires key business analysis skills, including stakeholder management, requirements engineering and problem solving. The role also requires a sufficient level of technical and domain knowledge to allow the analyst to operate as a facilitating ‘hub’ for the whole development team. The analyst isn’t necessarily responsible for designing or implementing a solution. Instead the business analyst’s job is to ensure that the designed and delivered solutions are aligned with the needs of the stakeholders and/or clients.

The analyst should be able to obtain a good understanding of business requirements and through a structured process be able to translate these requirements into business requirements and functional specifications.

Minimum Requirements    

• Relevant Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant experience in related field
• Previous working experience as a AC Engineer or a Business Analyst
• Strong communication skills, dealing with all levels of management and peers within an organisation
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet tight deadlines
• Experience of working with teams following an agile methodology
• Experience in the asset management industry
• Experienced in delivering/implementing products that meet users’ needs in a relevant domain
• Experienced of specifying and shaping new software features
• Experienced of working with software support/development teams
• Industrial engineering background would be an advantage
• Business / Systems Analysis certification would be an advantage
• Graduates would be preferential

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Conduct business analysis    
• Support user experience designers and facility user collaboration sessions    
• Partake in quality assurance and issue resolution processes    
• Build knowledge of new analysis process and tools on a continuous basis     
• Participate actively in the scrum process    
• Transfer knowledge to other stakeholders