Feature Analyst (m/f)

Description

• The Feature Analyst is accountable for guiding the clarification of the business requirements, through in-work collaboration with the business stakeholders, and working within the Agile team to ensure these are delivered effectively end-to-end. The Feature Analyst will provide a comprehensive view of the features within an Epic, the functionality required to implement it, and the benefits it delivers to the business. Feature Analysts have broader end-to-end understanding of an Epic/project, can work across multiple Agile teams and Product Owners, and own the process from start to finish, while getting involved at a technical level of implementations

Duties

Responsibilities within the Agile Team

• Collaborate with the Product Owner to create and refine user stories and acceptance criteria
• Participate in PI Planning and create Iteration plans and Team PI Objectives
• Develop and commit to Team PI Objectives and iteration goals
• Estimate the size and complexity of features
• Use pairing and other practices for frequent review
• Determine the technical design in their area of concern, within the architectural guidelines
• Conduct research, design, prototype, and other exploration activities
• Implement and integrate changes in small batches
• Create and test the work products defined by their features
• Test the work products defined by their features
• Support operational business solutions
• Support and/or create the automation necessary to build the continuous delivery pipeline
• Continuously improve the team’s process

Prioritize and Plan work activities within the Agile Team

• Facilitate and participate in discovery/inception workshops to create a shared understanding of user needs and the potential technology solution required to deliver these needs
• Identify user journeys which map out how a user will go through the system
• Work ahead of the team to get clarity on some (not all) requirements before the next iteration
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams comprised of product management, UX, technology, support, testing, and other subject matter experts to gather and analyze 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 prioritization and estimation
• Facilitate and participate in iteration meetings (product backlog grooming, planning meeting, daily stand-up, review meeting, and retrospectives
• Obtain sign-off during iteration review sessions
• Manage the stories, ensuring that all requirements are loaded as stories, and ensuring the stories are assigned to epics
• Support showcasing stories to stakeholders
• Work in collaboration with user experience team to ensure that processes, wireframes and content are optimally intuitive to end-users

Manage the Backlog for the Agile Team

• Ensure that the activities needed to fulfil each item in the backlog are identified, outlined and prioritized before the next sprint
• Identify missing requirements
• Clarify the goals and business value of Minimum Marketable Features/Minimal Viable Products
• Clarify any ambiguity until it is understood by the team
• Review user stories with the Product Owner with a strategic point of view
• Capture and keep the business and data rules up-to-date
• Ensure that where stories are blocked, these stories are prioritized 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 test cases for the system
• Produce acceptance tests from acceptance criteria
• Provide regular feedback by testing the deliverables against a user story’s acceptance criteria.
• Provide regular feedback by validating that the product meets the business goals.
• 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.
• Collaborate with the team to deliver on backlog
• Wear different hats: designer, tester, facilitator, product owner, etc
• Create a shared understanding of what the product is supposed to do
• Collaborate with the rest of the agile team to ensure that stories are delivered effectively and quality standards are adhered to
• Collaborate with developers, testers and user experience team to ensure that they are engaged ‘in the work’ to understand business context

Requisites

• Minimum requirements:
• Core Competencies
• Critical Thinking
• Problem Solving
• Oral & Written Communication
• Teamwork/Collaboration
• Information Technology Application
• Leadership
• Professionalism/Work Ethic
• Career Management
• Experience/Knowledge & Skills:
• Knowledge of Agile methodology
• Understand the impact of features across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Have the relevant technical and business skills to communicate with a variety of stakeholders
• Good understanding and experience of IT terminology and processes
• Ability to prioritize workloads and work with minimum supervision
• Analytical skills for transforming defined business needs into technical requirements
• 3 - 4 years' Business Analysis and Design. Experience with requirements elicitation, gathering, documentation and management
• 3 - 4 years' Business Support. Understanding business needs and be able to analyze requirements
• 3 years' banking experience
• Qualifications:
• Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent
• Lean Six Sigma Certification will be an added advantage
• SAFe certification will be an added advantage
• Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team will be an added advantage

Notes

• Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted