Feature Analyst at Standard Bank Group

JOB PURPOSE

To clarify business requirements, documenting associated user stories and acceptance criteria, through in-work collaboration with business stakeholders, cross functional teams and product owners contributing to the accurate and effective end-to-end delivery of expectations. To assume the role of scrum master within the Feature team if required.

KEY RESPONSIBILITES

• Identify user journeys which map out how a user will go through the system and support showcasing stories to affected stakeholders in collaboration with user experience teams. Support user experience team to ensure that processes, wire frames and content are optimally intuitive to end-users
• Manage the backlog for the feature team, accounting for the identification of activities needed to fulfil each item in the backlog, outlining and prioritising these before the next sprint, identifying missing requirements and or blocked stories and clarifying any ambiguity ensuring requirements are fully understood and delivered by the team. overlap with scrum master
• Contribute to product management by prioritising blocked stories to other iterations and identify new stories to replace them in the current iteration, enabling flow and achievement of objectives
• Provide support and input into system testing activities including participating in the development of the testing approach, development of test cases as well as the creation of testing scenarios.
• Continuously improve the team's process through individual contribution and retrospectives in support of Product Owner, influence and steer the various team members (developers, testers and user experience team) ensuring the business context is fully understood and delivery on the backlog achieved.
• Implement the necessary controls, standards and processes ensuring that requirements map back to the business value and that all stakeholders understand and concur with the desired requirement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams comprised of product management, User Experience (UX), technology, support, testing and other subject matter.
• Guide the clarification of business requirements, design and document requirements, aligning effective end-to-end delivery of expectations in line with achievement of business strategy

QUALIFICATIONS

• First Degree in Information Technology
• Agile certification
• 5-7 years proven experience in requirements elicitation, gathering, documentation and management and analysing business needs and provide solutions, working in an agile environment.
• 5-7 years good understanding of Agile working practices and LEAN and SCRUM proficiency and working collaboratively across teams.