Vacancy title:
Business Analyst

Jobs at:
awamo

Deadline of this Job:
Monday 27th November 2017

Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda

Job details:
Overview
The job entails investigating and analyzing awamo’s business requirements towards product development and new feature adaptations and relaying them to the development team for easy implementation.

Qualifications
Academic/Skills

• Bachelors’ degree in computer science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or any other related field – equivalent work experience will be considered as well
  
• Certificate in Project Management
  
• Fluency in English
  Work experience
  
• Min. 3 years working experience
  
• Experience in developing financial software solutions
  
• Experience in project management
  
• Experience in requirements engineering
  
• Experience in software functioning testing and documentation
  
• Experience in agile software development
  

Personality

• Fast thinker/solution oriented
  
• Ability to work with remote teams
  
• Self-motivated
  
• Strong analytical skills & structured approach to work
  
• Willingness to work long or irregular hours
  

Team structure
Direct Supervisor

• CTO
  

Direct Subordinates

• n/a
  

Work hand in hand with

• CPO
  
• Web Developer
  
• Backend Developer
  
• Android Developer
  
• UI/UX Designer
  

Responsibilities & duties

• Assisting with the business case to facilitate product development by quantifying requirements in terms of project scope and timelines
  
• Planning and monitoring by foreseeing product limitations and raising issues to business to adapt support mechanisms to mitigate risk during the project
  
• Eliciting business requirements to best suit developer interpretation
  
• Prioritize requirements based on project scope and timelines
  
• Translating and simplifying requirements
  
• Communicate and update business on development projects
  
• Continuous testing of requirement solutions when completed by developers to ensure adaptation has been implemented according to business needs

Key Performance Indicators

• Spot on translation of business requirements
  
• Following through to ensure business requirements have been adapted
  
• Reporting matrix on currently outstanding requirements versus requirements which have been completed

Job application procedure
Candidates meeting the required qualifications should send their applications, academic documents and resumes (soft copy only) to HR.UG@awamo.com