Business Analyst

” The Job Description”

1. Translating  business requirements into detailed functional specifications.
2. Simplify and understanding of business complexity and project interdependencies.
3. Gather, document, and analyse business software requirements based on the industry’s standard.
4. Understanding and implmentation of the change management process through the lifecycle.
5. Ensuring requirements issues are tracked, reported, and resolved in a timely manner.
6. Follows and adhers to the SDLC.
7. Manages risk within each project.
8. Uses the latest business analysis methodologies and techniques for an optimized and concice requirement.
   Supporting users’ participation in deployments and implementation activities.
9. Implementing effectively communicating plan, status, risks, and issues to the stakeholder in a precise and timely manner.
10. Supporting the Project Manager in delivering the project plan on time and on-budget.
11. Resolves issues and priorize along the process flow and escalate to propor channles where necessary to not pose an impact on  deliveries.
12. Analysing matrix into reports for major/medium projects with risk mitigation plans.
13. Manages the feedback loop for up to date project trackers.

    Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, Management Information Systems or related field.
• Strong analytical skills applied to understanding business functionality and translating them into application requirements.
• Ability to create compelling business cases with accurate cost and effort estimations.
• Excellent understanding of business complexity and project interdependencies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to quickly troubleshoot problems that may arise in work products.
• Ability to partner with software engineers’ quality analysts to identify course of resolutions.
• Strong understanding of basic system engineering, object-oriented design, information risk and security guidelines, and architecture standards.
• Modelling Techniques: Object Orientation analysis, UML (e.g., Use Cases, Activity Diagrams).
• In depth understanding of the various software development lifecycles (e.g. Agile, RUP, and Waterfall).
• Demonstrated experience in writing software requirements and test specifications.

Tagged as: agile, IT, RUP, UML, waterfall