Business Analyst - IT (Qatari Nationals Only)

Description

About the Role

Responsible for managing business requirements and ensuring that the IT solutions meet the stated business objectives. Activities may involve requirements gathering, analysis, documenting functional and interfaces specifications, non-functional requirements, preparing test scenarios and test cases, executing system tests, support business user acceptance tests, support business roll‑out and provide post go‑live 2nd level system support. Responsible for analysing and documenting business cases, business processes and new system requirements for assigned business areas. Works with the business to define requirements and develops business cases for divisional projects.

Key Responsibilities

Operational

• Investigate and analyse business operational requirements, identify problems and opportunities.
• Capture and document business requirements in conjunction with internal and external stakeholders.
• Assist in the analysis of stakeholder objectives and business priorities.
• Support business units in preparation of business cases for automation, IT solution procurement processes.
• Support business units in preparation of business cases for automation, including where procurement processes are involved, and identify tangible & intangible benefits, project NPV, ROI etc.
• Work along‑side QRIT Account Management team to deliver IT solutions that meet the business needs.
• Analyse and document the business requirements, system interface specifications and non-functional requirements, strictly following the QRIT SGI guidelines and templates.
• Ensure timely reviews and sign-off of the documentation.
• Conduct domain and requirements training sessions for the software delivery teams.
• Discovers and analyses requirements for fitness for purpose as well as adherence to business objectives and consistency, challenging positively as appropriate.
• Manage interactions with external / internal IT teams for designing and documenting the system interfaces.
• Identify and document test scenarios, test data and test case.
• Contributes to selection of the most appropriate means of representing business requirements in the context of a specific change initiative, ensuring traceability back to source.
• Analyse and document business process models (as is and to be) using techniques such as UML modelling and tools.
• Conduct system testing and manage the defect lifecycle, work with the development team to ensure timely closure of the defects.
• Conduct system integration tests and sign-off by concerned stakeholders.
• Support user acceptance testing and timely sign-off.
• Support business users in the review of production data and configuration set‑up (system parameters, access privileges, seed data set‑up etc).
• Assist business areas in identifying potential IT opportunities exploiting use of new technologies.
• Conduct train‑the‑trainer sessions, support end user training and review of standard operating procedures.
• Prepare Change Requests and conduct regression tests to ensure that fixes do not break existing functionality.

Qualification

About You

Minimum Qualifications & Experience

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent without prior experience

Job Specific Skills:

Essential

• Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Software Quality Assurance processes.
• Must have hands‑on experience in requirements analysis and documentation.
• Must have good analytical skills.
• Managerial skills - Ability to delegate work, set clear direction and manage workflow. Strong mentoring and coaching skills. Ability to train and develop subordinate's skills. Ability to foster teamwork among team members.

Preferred

• Communication skills.
• Airline systems and business processes.