SQS Group: Business Analyst

SQS Software Quality Systems AG is a consultancy company based in Cologne, Germany. The company describes itself as the largest independent provider of software testing and Quality Managed services.

Purpose of the Job:

To gather, analyze, document and manage the business requirements for technology enhancements/changes on financial/and insurance’s systems, by acting as the catalyst/link between various business units and development teams including vendors to ensure that all business requirements are delivered and fully tested in the system.

Business Requirements Specification (BRS) :

• Document functional requirements
• Gather requirements
• Facilitate a JAD workshop or meeting
• Develop high level requirements
• Evaluate user requirements in terms of scope and complexity
• Develop business case
• Document proposed solution in business terms, including alternative solutions
• Provide high level – visionary business requirements specifications and account of costs and benefits

Detailed Requirements Specifications (DRS)

• Restate business issues to be addressed
• Document and model functional requirements preferably in terms of use cases
• Document and specify non-functional requirements, e.g. Response times
• Document and model informational requirements
• Document interfaces
• Map TO-BE processes
• Document needs in terms of resources, people, marketing, change management, etc.
• Produce accurate and detailed DRS documents to enable developers to scope the initiative

Management of Requirements Traceability

• Compile detailed requirements summary
• List and categorize requirements (requirements matrix)
• Assign priorities to requirements
• Source, identify and record origin of requirements
• Trace requirements to use cases
• Trace requirements to build
• Trace requirements to testing

Project Execution

• Change management
• Analyze change requirements
• Document detail requirements for change requests
• Add requirements to repository and ensure traceability
• Test cases -Provide input into the development of test cases and validate test cases
• Test execution – Participate in the execution of tests as per test cases and identify and log defects
• Integration of product enhancements within the integrated product architecture
• Play an active role on innovation projects to identify the impact of changes/enhancements on processes and technology and contribute to the architectural integration thereof

Post Implementation Support

• Provide on-going support to ensure ideas/recommendations realize the best results and stakeholders realize ‘return on investment’.

 

• Minimum of 4yrs experience in an insurance or financial industry performing a business analyst role and using applicable methodologies.
• Knowledge depth in :
  • Information Modelling
  • Business Analysis Methodologies
  • Software Development Life Cycle
  • Banking Systems Understanding
  • Business Process Design & Mapping

• Matric + IT Diploma. Preferably an applicable Tertiary qualification (B.Com or B.SC).
• Computer Knowledge in :
  • Unified Modeling Language
  • IT Architecture
  • Writing of use cases
  • Entity Data Modeling
  • Used Cases/Used Case Modeling