Senior Business Analyst (iOCOOO152)

iOCO; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

iOCO is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join our Johannesburg team. You will build strong client relationships, act as a consultant, and help shape business requirements within a custom software environment.

With Scrum and Agile practices, you will write user stories, maintain a prioritized backlog, and analyze the product to identify improvements. You will collaborate across teams and support innovative solutions.

Qualifications

• Formal qualification such as a B. Com or BSc, diploma or certification (IIBA or similar)

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with clients and act as a consultant on projects or applications.
• Challenge the business to clarify intent of requirements.
• Elicit, gather, analyse, document, validate and communicate business requirements (User Stories and Acceptance Criteria).
• Write clear user stories, epics, and features aligned with INVEST for agile development.
• Collaborate to maintain a well-prioritized backlog and ensure continuous value.
• Conduct product analysis to identify improvements and innovations.

Skills

User stories & acceptance criteria

Agile / Scrum

Stakeholder management

Backlog management

Requirement elicitation

JSON / XML reading

BDD & TDD knowledge

Communication skills

Cross-team collaboration

Education

B.Com / BSc or equivalent

IIBA certification

Tools

OpenAPI (OAS) specs

JSON

XML

Job description

We're seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join our team!

What you’ll do:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and act as a consultant on the projects or applications.
• Challenge the business in their thinking, especially to understand the intent of the business requirement.
• With little supervision, elicit, gather, analyse, document, validate and communicate business requirements (User Stories and Acceptance Criteria)
• Write clear and concise user stories, epics, and features aligned with the INVEST principles to support effective agile development.
• Collaborate with the business to build and maintain a well-prioritized backlog, ensuring delivery teams have a continuous flow of valuable work.
• Conduct in-depth product analysis by developing strong knowledge of the existing product and identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation.

Your expertise:

• At least 6-7 years’ experience in Business Analysis across a custom software development environment.
• Experienced with Scrum Principles in an Agile Environment.
• Proven project experience in writing user stories, epics, features, in line with the INVEST principles of agile
• At least 3 years’ experience in Agile Projects
• Working knowledge of (OAS) Open API specification 2.0 and 3.0
• Able to read and interpret JSON and XML files
• Able to understand and work using the Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) & Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach for new requirements that require development.

Qualifications:

• Formal qualification such as a B. Com or BSc, diploma or certification (IIBA or similar)

Personal Attributes:

• A proven ability to work across multiple project teams at a given time
• Demonstrated ability of high levels of communication skills – both verbally and written
• Strong problem solving, communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work under pressure towards predetermined/ established business objectives

Other information applicable to the opportunity:

• Contract position
• Location: Johannesburg

Why work for us?

Want to work for an organization that solves complex real-world problems with innovative software solutions? At iOCO, we believe anything is possible with modern technology, software, and development expertise. We are continuously pushing the boundaries of innovative solutions across multiple industries using an array of technologies.?

You will be part of a consultancy, working with some of the most knowledgeable minds in the industry on interesting solutions across different business domains.?

Our culture of continuous learning will ensure that you will have all the opportunities, tools, and support to hone and grow your craft.?

By joining IOCO you will have an open invitation to developer inspiring forums. A place where you will be able to connect and learn from and with your peers by sharing ideas, experiences, practices, and solutions.?

iOCO is an equal opportunity employer with an obligation to achieve its own unique EE objectives in the context of Employment Equity targets. Therefore, our employment strategy gives primary preference to previously disadvantaged individuals or groups