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Analysis (including Business Case)

• Proactively build relationships with business areas & DevOps teams to proactively develop expertise in the various business process.

• Apply analytical techniques to elicit and validate business (product & service) needs

• Translate elicited needs and knowledge acquired into user story format to be used by DevOps teams

• Prepare and prioritise the backlog of requirements for the user stories linked to the proposed solutions & or units of analysis

• Provide input into detailed solution roadmaps, business cases (e.g. effort estimations) & product & service visions (including detailed analysis requirements & solution scope)

• Define measures of success & key outcomes for various solutions / changes including detailed acceptance criteria for all features

• Define & execute testing requirements (pass or fail test cases)

• Document all systems analysis outcomes (requirements, test cases etc.) for specific solutions & support the documentation processes for system analysis for the broader team

Solution Design (within DevOps Context)

• Translate business requirements into detailed systems requirements. Detailed system requirements must include capabilities, interfaces and functionalities within and across technologies.

• Leverage business analysis & modeling tools and apply notation standards such as UML/BPMN to diagrammatically/visually document: business requirements, business processes, system processes & integration.

• Socialize and gain business approval for integrated requirements with key stakeholders

• Proactively learn & leverage knowledge on the organisations technical landscape, environment and broader architecture to systems requirements

• Work collaboratively with project / program teams, squads, scrum masters and engineers to define backlog, release & DevOps / project planning implications of the requirements (what should happen when)

• Continuously improve system requirements mapping (e.g. leverage input from questions asked etc. to consistently improve the quality of the requirements analysis for easier interpretation by the development teams)

• Work as part of the embedded DevOps team throughout the design process to review solution design (features and functionality)

• Facilitate resolution during development & testing phases for any change requirements

Solution Delivery & Testing (manual)

• Define & implement the manual testing strategy & test cases for various solutions (where it makes sense to do so)

• Define & validate quality & testing parameters (+/-) & plans for the solution (socialize & translate these to automation testing teams)

• Develop & implement manual testing frameworks and patterns for the solution

• Execute testing processes for various solutions (e.g. execute test cases, analyse results)

• Provide real time feedback to the DevOps teams on change requirements identified throughout the testing process

• Review & monitor system stability, resilience etc. throughout the testing process (e.g. integration) & in production

• Define & monitor overall backlog planning for effective solution delivery

• Provide Developer & User support during user acceptance testing

People

• Participate in peer reviews & problem solving within and across the broader team