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• 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 

Additional Responsibiliites

• Agile experience in a feature team mandatory
• Analyst experience mandatory
• SAFe framework experience preferred
• Scrummaster exposure advantageous
• Use of JIRA tool advantageous

Preferred Qualification and Experience
Qualifications

• Degree in IT and Computer Sciences

Experience

• 3-4 Years experience in Information Technology

Knowledge/Technical Skills/Expertise
Technical Competencies

• Data Analysis - Ability to analyse statistics and other data, interpret and evaluate results, and create reports and presentations for use by others.

• Stakeholder Management - The coordination of relationships with and between key stakeholders, during the design, management and implementation of business change.

• Research and Information Gathering - Ability to review and study relevant information from various sources to develop new information; Ability to identify primary and secondary authorities to validate the research.

• IT Risk Management - The planning and implementation of ganization-wide processes and procedures for the management of operational risk.

• Requirement Validationor - Knowledge and understanding of the techniques for validating requirements for form and content.

Behavioural Competencies

• Exploring Possibilities
• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Team Working