Absa Group Specialist Solution Analyst - Sandton Jobs in South Africa

Absa Group Specialist Solution Analyst - Sandton Jobs in South Africa

Job Summary

CIB Global Markets - Post Trade Services (PTS) Team is currently looking for Specialist Solution Analysts to work as part of the Change Team. The Specialist will leverage analysis & testing tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements.

They will also translate & document business requirements into user stories & specifications (using Agile Methodology) detailing integration points, business & associated risk / opportunities to be realised. And following this analysis, work collaboratively within squads during design & delivery activity including assuming responsibility for manual application testing and automated testing processes, frameworks & outcomes.

Education and experience required

4-6 years business & systems analysis experience

4-6 years Experience in working with multidisciplinary teams

Experience in Agile Methodology & working embedded within an Agile team / teams

Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Commerce or Information Technology.

Banking or Financial Markets domain experience, preferred

Job Description

Analysis (including Business Case)

Proactively build relationships, apply analytical techniques to elicit and validate business (product & service) needs ahead of demand

Implement routines to get to know / become an expert in various business processes (e.g. spend time in business & with users)

Translate elicited needs and knowledge acquired into user story format that is immediately usable for DevOps teams (right languaging, format for building & testing)

Prepare and prioritise the backlog of requirements for the user stories linked to the proposed solutions

Work collaboratively with Tribe Leads (Technical Product / Service Owners) to build a roadmap & vision for the products and services (including detailed analysis requirements & solution scope)

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

Define testing requirements (pass or fail test cases)

Support the development of detailed business cases (including defining solution characteristics, effort estimations etc.)

Solution Design (within DevOps Context)

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

Build detailed user stories to be leveraged for system requirements design (modular)

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

Facilitate processes to ensure integrated requirements are socialized, understood & approved across the broad range of stakeholders

to be impacted (this includes various processes e.g. risk / governance forums, change council, scrum meetings / DevOps team capability building, solution design sessions etc.)

Understand & leverage knowledge on the organisations technical landscape, environment and broader architecture to define integration points across tech stacks for various requirements

Work collaboratively with project / program teams, squads, scrum masters and engineers to define backlog, release & DevOps / project planning implications of the requirements development & roadmap (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 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 manual testing frameworks and patterns for the solution

Lead the manual testing process 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

Provide coaching & mentoring across the DevOps team as well as to developing analysts across the estate

Conduct peer reviews & problem solving within and across the broader team

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

How to Apply

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