- Company
- Discovery
- Location
- Sandton, Gauteng
- Job type
- Permanent
- Minimum qualification
- Informatics or other relevant degree
- Closing date
- 16 November 2026 (2 days left)
About this role
Discovery is hiring a Business Analyst for its Group Information Services team in Sandton. The CRM D2C team is a service-focused group that solves problems quickly and works closely with clients. This role links business needs, technical design and software development.
What you’ll do
- Study technical requirements and document, check and convert them into functional specifications that developers can build from.
- Test and validate the finished solution against the technical and business requirements.
- Act as the link between the Systems Architect, clients where relevant, and the development team.
- Help define business cases and technical designs, including the benefits the business wants to achieve.
- Turn requirements into Agile epics and stories, plan sprints, and spot integration risks across systems.
- Prepare test cases, test scenarios and test data, and get stakeholder sign-off on the Agile story board.
- Write and publish release notes, and keep the story board up to date.
What you need
- An Informatics or other relevant degree.
- 3 to 5 years’ experience as a Business Analyst.
- Agile methodology certification (advantageous).
- One year of software development experience (advantageous).
- An Honours degree (advantageous).
- Working knowledge of Agile, ITIL (incident, release and problem management), and SQL on Oracle and IBM Netezza.
- Experience with Enterprise Architect, Visio, SoapUI or a REST client, and the Atlassian suite (Jira and Confluence).
- Understanding of UML, XML, JSON, software architecture, JAD sessions and data modelling.
- Strong business writing, presentation and facilitation skills, plus process mapping and entity diagram mapping.
Is this job for you?
This role suits an experienced analyst who enjoys fast change and taking ownership. You should be comfortable talking to both business people and developers. You should also enjoy solving problems with urgency and bringing new ideas to the table.
Tips before you apply
- Have your degree certificate and a copy of your Agile certification ready if you hold one.
- Show your BA experience with specific projects, including the systems you worked on and your role in them.
- List the tools you have used, such as SQL, Jira, Visio or SoapUI, and say how you used each one.
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