KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS (KPAs)

The Feature Analyst – Intermediate duties includes the following:

Responsibilities within the Agile Team

·         Collaborate with the Product Owner to create and refine user stories and acceptance criteria

·          Participate in PI Planning and create Iteration plans and Team PI Objectives

·          Develop and commit to Team PI Objectives and iteration goals

·          Estimate the size and complexity of features

·          Use pairing and other practices for frequent review

·          Determine the technical design in their area of concern, within the architectural guidelines

·         Conduct research, design, prototype, and other exploration activities

·         Implement and integrate changes in small batches

·         Create and test the work products defined by their features

·         Build and maintain test suites including full regression testing for both manual and automated testing for relevant applications/software features

·         Test the work products defined by their features

·         Support operational business solutions

·         Support and/or create the automation necessary to build the continuous delivery pipeline Continuously improve the team’s process

·         Stand in time to time or when requested for the Scrum Master

Prioritize and Plan work activities within the Agile Team

·         Facilitate and participate in discovery/inception workshops to create a shared understanding of user needs and the potential technology solution required to deliver to these needs

·         Identify user journeys which map out how a user will go through the system

·         Work ahead of the team to get clarity on some (not all) requirements before the next iteration

·         Collaborate with cross-functional teams comprised of product management, / UX, technology, support, testing and other subject matter experts to gather and analyze functional needs and user story requirements

·         Groom user stories through business interviews, workshops or procedures and map user stories ensuring they come together as a cohesive whole.

·         Provide the Product Owner with key information for prioritization and estimation.

·         Facilitate and participate in iteration meetings (product backlog grooming, planning meeting, daily stand up, review meeting and retrospective).

·         Obtain sign off during iteration review sessions.

·         Manage the stories (in Azure DevOps), ensuring that all requirements are loaded as stories, ensuring the stories are assigned to epics.

·         Support showcasing stories to stakeholders

·         Work very closely with user experience team to ensure that processes, wireframes, and content are optimally intuitive to end-users

Manage the Backlog for the Agile Team

·         Ensure that the activities needed to fulfil each item in the backlog are identified, outlined, and prioritized before the next sprint.

·         Identify missing requirements

·         Clarify the goals and business value of Minimum Marketable Features/Minimal Viable Products.

·         Clarify any ambiguity until it is understood by the team

·         Review user stories with the Product Owner with a strategic point of view

·         Capture and keep the business and data rules up to date

·         Ensure that where stories are blocked, these stories are prioritised to other iterations and new stories identified to replace them in the current iteration

Test Cases for System

·         Work with users to develop acceptance criteria or test cases for the system

·         Produce acceptance tests from acceptance criteria

·         Provide regular feedback by testing the deliverables against a user story’s acceptance criteria.

·         Provide regular feedback by validating that the product meets the business goals.

·         Provide support and input into system testing activities including participating in the development of the testing approach, development of test cases as well as the creation of testing scenarios

Collaborate with the team to deliver on backlog

·         Wear different hats: designer, tester, facilitator, product owner, etc

·         Create a shared understanding of what the product is supposed to do

·         Collaborate with the rest of the agile team to ensure that stories are delivered effectively, and quality standards are adhered to

·         Collaborate with developers, testers, and user experience team to ensure that they are engaged ‘in the work’ to understand business context