Product Analyst | Olivedale

Experience & knowledge required- Minimum of 6 years Business Analyst or Product Analystexperience- Minimum of 2 years JIRA and Confluence experience- Ideally 2 years Team Lead/Supervisory/ManagementexperienceMinimum qualification- Diploma or Degree in computer sciences or any other related professional and recognized I.T. qualification (advantageous)- At any time in your life someone must have referred to you as "smarty-pants"Competencies- Very strong commitment to high quality documentation- Strong writing skills- Excellent technical analysis skills- High attention to detail and commitment to accuracy- An undeniable need to understand how things work and ideally break them from time-to-time- Passion for IT and software development- Customer/user-orientated- Results orientation- Leadership skills- Ability to solve problems and apply logical thinking- Strong ability to plan and organise- Presentation and communication skills- Curious- Self and time management skills- Ability to display emotional resilience and the ability to withstand pressure on an on-going basis- Receptive to changeJob responsibilities- Create strong and detailed product scope documents, which incorporate the following:o Requirements analysiso Background and strategic fito User stories and taskso Risks analysiso User interaction, design and flowo Non-functional requirementso Wireframeso Emoji and / or animated gifs in smart ways to make technical document less boring and lame- Work with the development team to understand technical requirements, estimated timelines and risks- Work with the QA testers to understand testing requirements, estimated timelines and risks- Work with the Projects team to understand customerrequirements and to deliver customer-facing (nontechnical)scope documents- From time-to-time work with clients (those pesky people who pay us money to blow them away) to understand technical requirements and manage design expectations- Master table dancing, Potjie cooking, Karaoke Singing, Tequila drinking and/or dodging, tenpin bowling and "high fiving" from time to time in social engagements as and when required. (technical peeps can dance too weve witnessed this phenomenon on multiple occasions!)- Constantly improve our scope documentation process to give better clarity to the development and QA teams- Work within the Agile and scrum methodologies and frameworks- Serve as a knowledge resource on Smoke CIs software product (Eyerys) and demonstrate relevant industry and/or product knowledge to present software features, components, capabilities, and functionality to offer new and creative solutions to meet client needs and evolve the product- Financial Benefits: Funeral, Death and Disability Policy- Other Benefits:o 15 Days annual leave per annumo Company social committee managed by the staff to decide how we do social events and team building driving our amazing company cultureo Hybrid working model