Business Analyst (Junior) - Health Systems at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

• The role will work to understand the overall business needs, define and document the requirements, using various approaches such as use cases and then decomposing the requirements to a sufficient level of detail allowing the implementation team to take action. The Business Analyst (Junior) will support the project throughout the project lifecycle and will manage the release as well as post release monitoring. The role also plays a key role in end-to-end testing of new functionality including UAT for business sign-off. 

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

The successful candidate will be required to perform but not limited to the following key outputs in respect of the Healthcare Digital Solutions portfolio:

• Run a requirements gathering/JAD workshop to gather new requirements
• Document business requirement specifications under supervision of a Senior BA
• Accurately document functional requirements specifications clearly defining project objectives
• Construct complex process models and can create UML models and execute user acceptance or system testing
• Resolve requirements conflict through effective stakeholder engagement
• Identify and document project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies
• Identify and perform process improvement work
• Perform quality assurance of business analysis deliverables

Competencies

The successful candidate must demonstrate the following competencies:

• Self-starter who takes ownership, is accountable, and is able to work with minimal supervision
• Results oriented with the ability to work under pressure and juggle multiple concurrent projects with changing priorities and deadlines
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Able to deal with complexity and migrate between detailed and high level requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Presentation and facilitation skills
• Stress management skills
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Project management skills
• Requirements development skills
• Change control skills
• Release management skills
• Solution development skills
• Software Testing skills and experience

Education and Experience

• BCom or BSc in Information Systems or Computer Science; or equivalent 3-year IT qualification
• Minimum of 2+ years’ experience in a Business Analyst role
• Experience with DBMS such as PL/SQL
• Beneficial knowledge and experience of tools such as Enterprise Architect, XML, SOAP UI, Ms Visio and JIRA
• Strong documentation skills in technical and architecture specifications
• Process knowledge of SDLC, Unit testing, database structure design, technical change control
• Unit testing and mocking frameworks
• Experience with industry standard and governance protocols
• Exposure to Agile methodology