Junior Feature Analyst at Standard Bank Group

Job Purpose

• The Feature Analyst is driven by delivering value in the form of business outcomes by collaborating within the feature team and key stakeholders. Also, responsible for ensuring that requirements map back to the business value and that the entire feature team knows what and how they are implementing towards the desired requirement.

Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities

• Prioritise and Plan work activities within the Feature Team
•  Facilitate and participate in discovery/inception workshops to create a shared understanding of user needs and the potential technology solution required to deliver to these needs
•  Work ahead of the team to get clarity on some (not all) requirements before the next iteration
•  Create relevant analysis documentation resulting from elicitation sessions.
•  Collaborate with cross-functional teams comprised of product management, /UX, technology, support, testing and other subject matter experts to gather and analyse functional needs and user story requirements.
•  Groom user stories through business interviews, workshops or procedures and map user stories ensuring they come together as a cohesive whole.
•  Provide the Product Owner with key information for prioritisation and estimation.
•  Facilitate and participate in iteration meetings (product backlog grooming, planning meeting, daily stand up, review meeting and retrospective).
•  Obtain sign off during iteration review sessions.
•  Manage the stories (in JIRA), ensuring that all requirements are loaded as stories, Tasks and that the stories are assigned/linked to epics.
•  Support showcasing of stories to stakeholders

Manage Backlog for the feature team

•  Ensure that the activities needed to fulfil each item in the backlog are identified and outlined before the next sprint.
•  Identify missing requirements
•  Clarify any ambiguity until it is understood by the team
•  Review user stories with the Product Owner
•  Capture and keep the business and data rules up-to-date
•  Ensure that where stories are blocked, these stories are identified for prioritisation to other iterations and new stories identified to replace them in the current iteration

Test cases for system

•  Work with users to develop acceptance criteria or high level test cases for the system
•  Provide regular feedback by validating that the product meets the business goals.

Collaborate with the team to deliver on backlog

•  Create a shared understanding of what the product is supposed to do
•  Stand-in for users only when they're unavailable (as opposed to being the “permanent “bridge between developers and users)

Report on progress of backlog

•  Capture Epics, Stories and tasks onto Jira.
•  Produce periodic Stats and Reports

Preferred Qualification and Experience
Qualifications:

•  Degree in IT and Computer Sciences
•  Appropriate tertiary qualification aligned to Agile methodologies; or
• 3-year degree in Business Analysis.

Experience:

• 3-4 years practical experience in working in a variety of business areas within IT. Understanding and experience of the various disciplines within IT and how they relate to each other.
• 1-2 years experience with requirements elicitation, gathering, documentation and management

Knowledge/Technical Skills/Expertise

• Data Analysis
• Stakeholder Management
• Research and Information Gathering
• IT Risk Management
• Requirement Validation