Specialist Solution Analyst – Sandton

Company: Absa Group Limited Absa
Location: Saudi Arabia
Employment Type: Full-time
Description:
Job Summary
• Work as part of a DevOps team, leverage specialist analysis & testing tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements. Translate & document business requirements into user stories & specifications Full Stack, Cross System 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 processes, frameworks & outcomes

Job Description
• CIB Payments Technology – Core Banking Multi-Currency is looking for a passionate, motivated and engaged Solution/System Analyst.
• We are a legacy application evolving to more modern applications, our area provides forex payments capabilities through various systems and processes.
• As a team we continuously strive to streamline our processes and ways of working, and creating room for innovation.

Key… Responsibilities:
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• Facilitate processes to ensure integrated requirements are socialized, understood & approved across the broad range of stakeholders to be impacted
• 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
• Continuously improve system requirements mapping e.g. leverage input from questions asked etc. ensuring continues improvement
• 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

Technical Skills and Experience required:
• Min 5 year business & systems analysis experience in a tech environment
• Experience in software and business analysis and tools
• Proficiency in SQL for data querying and manipulation
• Knowledge of data modeling and database schemas
• Familiarity with ETL processes and data warehousing
• Experience in working with multidisciplinary teams
• Experience in Agile Methodology & working embedded within an Agile team / teams
• Banking domain experience, preferred.
• Expertise in Systems Design & Integration, Business Continuity Management & Disaster Recovery

Payment Systems Knowledge beneficial:
• Understand ISO standards related to financial transactions.
• Familiarity with Swift payments and messaging protocols.

Education
• Bachelor’s Degree: Information Technology

Source: MyJobMag

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