Educational requirements: Bachelor
English requirements: Competent English
Requirements for skilled employment experience for years: 1-3 years
Required residence status: Temporary visa, Permanent resident, Citizen
Accept remote work: unacceptable
About the role
The IT Business Analyst plays a key role within the product development team, acting as the main conduit between the development team and the business by understanding and translating business needs into software requirements, ensuring that the requirements, designs and specifications are captured, defined and well understood by the development team, using agile practices.
Day to day activities Work with stakeholders to prioritise the product backlog and defects based on business value, ensuring the value of the work that the team performs. Work closely with the project team members to ensure that the product meets the agreed requirements and to ensure the product is of a high quality. Accurately describe the problem statement, business impact and client experience. Work with the business to clearly identify success criteria for each milestone the team are working on. Define the acceptance criteria for user stories and requirements to ensure clarity for the development team Assist with the definition of the testing strategy and test execution including participation in testing activities and release readiness assessments. May lead agile ceremonies (stand up, retro, showcases, workshops, inceptions etc.) through visualisation techniques Gain a thorough understanding of the clients’ business and be able to gather, refine and articulate their needs Analyse user requirements and deliver artefacts to assist with understanding - including domain modelling, workflows, user stories and interface design, by liaising with a range of people including users & product managers, drawing together information needs from across the organisation. Skills Required:
Minimum 2 years experience working as an IT Business Analyst Solid experience in gathering requirements Strong knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle Strong SQL knowledge Agile values and principles: Agile SDLC, Teams, Roles, Ceremonies and Artefacts. Jira (working with multiple projects: Scrum and Kanban boards) Strong knowledge of testing and automation of testing Confluence, Slack, Google Suite, Excel. Presentations: project pitches, internal and external demos, feature reviews, design critiques. Nice to have experience with wireframes and design tools: Balsamiq/Adobe XD/InVision Nice to have experience working with cloud technologies
