Solution Analyst

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time. With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group. Belonging at Absa Absa is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from suitably qualified individuals from diverse backgrounds. In support of our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) commitments and Employment Equity objectives, preference may be given to candidates from underrepresented designated groups, including persons with disabilities. We encourage applicants who may require reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process to let us know so that appropriate support can be provided.

Work as part of a Dev Ops team, apply analysis & testing tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements into user stories. And following this analysis, work collaboratively within squads during design & delivery activity with a specific focus on testing.

• Proactively build relationships with business areas & Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops 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

• 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 & Dev Ops / 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 Dev Ops team throughout the design process to review solution design (features and functionality)
• Facilitate resolution during development & testing phases for any change requirements

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