Business Analyst

Teraco; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 500 000 - 700 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in South Africa, Gauteng is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to serve as a crucial link between business objectives and internal system development. Responsibilities include gathering business requirements, ensuring quality assurance and compliance with ISO 27001 standards. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in business analysis and document management, with strong skills in communicating with technical teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in the Business Analyst role for internal applications and systems.
• Proficient in gathering and documenting business requirements.
• Ability to translate technical requirements for developers.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the link between business objectives and internal system development.
• Elicit and document business requirements from stakeholders.
• Ensure quality assurance and testing on applications.

Skills

Business analysis

Requirements elicitation

Quality assurance

Documentation

ISO 27001 standards

Job description

Purpose of the Role

Your roles and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Perform the Business Analyst role for internal Business Applications, being the vital link between our business objectives and enabling our organisation's internal system development or third-party systems providers; serving as the intermediary between the system stakeholders, end-users and software developers.
• Elicit & document business requirements
• Create and develop functional requirements of systems to improve quality, performances, external interfaces, and constraints
• Translate requirements into a format that is suitable for Teraco's developers or third-party service provider developers to understand
• Working with the Business Systems Test Analyst in ensuring applications are developed & tested according to spec
• Staff coaching of Internal Business Application

Main Functions of the Job

Create and design specifications

• Gathering, validating, and documenting various system information and requirements as the intermediary between the business / product owners and the development team
• Participate and run workshops & meetings alongside business owners
• Assess and analyse the business implications involved

Document the requirements for approval by requesters

• Manage requirements and ensure they are stored centrally
• Establish requirements baseline and timelines for development delivery
• Supervise requirements traceability information and record requirements status during the development phase
• Monitor changes to baseline requirements with the use of effective application of change control processes and tools
• Quality assurance and testing on all internally developed applications
• Make contributions in the development of Test Plans with the Test Analyst;
• Perform test execution when required;
• Support the Applications Development Manager & Test Analyst in establishing testing methodologies;
• Own the business requirements tickets and ensure the sprintr tickets correlate. Ensure the Ozone business requirement tickets are organized, up to date and appropriate level of detail for decision making. Ensure users / requestors have clear indication on status and are regularly updated.
• Compile test and release communication for business users, for user acceptance testing and go-live releases
• Ensure that the ISO 27001 best practices are implemented in all aspects of responsibility.