Junior Feature Analyst

 

Standard Bank2,294 reviews - Johannesburg, Gauteng

Overview

Job ID:

50193

Job Sector:

Information Technology and Services

Country:

South Africa

Region/State/Province/District:

Gauteng

Location:

Johannesburg

Job Details

Standard Bank is a firm believer in technical innovation, to help us guarantee exceptional client service and leading edge financial solutions. Our growing global success reflects our commitment to the latest solutions, the best people, and a uniquely flexible and vibrant working culture. To help us drive our success into the future, we are looking for a Junior Feature Analyst to join our Finance & Procurement Technology team at our Johannesburg offices. Standard Bank is a leading African banking group focused on emerging markets globally. It has been a mainstay of South Africa's financial system for more than 150 years, and now spans 18 countries across the African continent.

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

PLEASE NOTE: All our recruitment and selection processes comply with applicable local laws and regulations. We will never ask for money or any form of payment as part of our recruitment process. If you experience this, please contact our Fraudline on +27 800222050 or forward to TransactionFraudOpsSA@standardbank.co.za

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