Business Analyst at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

Work closely with a passionate development team to design, develop and maintain solutions for a dynamic, multi-national company that sets the benchmark in its industry. Must be a team player and have the ability to work with both vertical and horizontal colleagues both in a formal and informal setting.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

The successful candidate will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following:

• Understanding the business requirements and through a structured process documenting, validating and translating it into Product Requirement Specifications that are used by developers to craft a technical solution.
• Testing and validating the functionality of the technical solution against the business requirements as well as providing testing support to the testing team (defect management)
• Interfacing between the business client and the development team with regards to the customer and functional requirements.
• Ensuring that the customer requirements are delivered in the implemented solution, on time and of the highest quality.
• Working with multiple business areas and multiple teams that require deep integration of solutions.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with the business areas.
• Evaluate and measure efficiencies of business processes and provide recommendations.
• Proactively identify risk pertaining to the project. 

Education and Experience

Education

• Matric
• A Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Computer Sciences/ Information Systems or equivalent IT tertiary qualification
• Formal Java Qualification (Advantageous)

Experience

• 4+ years’ experience in SOAP UI, SQL, PL SQL, Process Mapping and documentation
• 5+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst
• Solid testing experience.

Knowledge

• Processes: ITIL (Incident, Change, Release, Problem Management), CMMI Technologies:
• SQL, UML
• Facilitating JAD sessions, data modelling techniques, UML Process Design, Industry compliance standards and legislation Technical Skills:
• SQL Queries (essential)
• Project Management
• Business Writing Skills
• Presentation and Facilitation Skills
• Process Mapping
• Entity Diagram Mapping
• Software testing pack design and functional testing

Advantageous:

• UML Expert courses, BPMN Advanced course, IIBA certified, PM training or qualification