Absa Group
Absa Group
Absa Group is an African financial services company operating across banking, finance, and fintech. Its business spans Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia, with additional offices and entities in China, Namibia, Nigeria, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The group also maintains technology support operations in the Czech Republic and serves its markets with an outlook that extends beyond the African continent.

Solution Analyst, Banking DevOps

Translate banking needs into DevOps user stories, system requirements, and manual tests. Support solution delivery by working with business partners and multidisciplinary squads.

Description

  • Turn business requirements into user stories with the DevOps team
  • Build business-process knowledge through relationships with business units and DevOps teams
  • Analyze and validate business, product, and service needs
  • Prepare and prioritize requirements backlogs
  • Contribute to solution roadmaps, business cases, estimates, and product or service visions
  • Set success measures, expected outcomes, and acceptance criteria
  • Define testing requirements, carry out tests, and document systems analysis
  • Translate business needs into detailed system requirements for capabilities, interfaces, and functions
  • Use business analysis and modeling tools, including UML and BPMN, to document processes and integrations
  • Secure stakeholder approval of integrated requirements
  • Coordinate backlog, release, and project planning with project and program teams, squads, scrum masters, and engineers
  • Review solution features and functionality as designs develop
  • Help resolve changing requirements during development and testing
  • Develop and apply manual testing strategies, cases, frameworks, and patterns
  • Run tests, assess results, and give DevOps teams timely feedback
  • Track system stability and resilience during testing and in production
  • Support solution delivery through backlog planning
  • Assist developers and users during user acceptance testing
  • Take part in peer reviews and problem solving

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology
  • Ability to gather and validate business, product, and service needs
  • Ability to turn business requirements into user stories and detailed system requirements
  • Knowledge of business analysis and modeling tools
  • Knowledge of UML and BPMN notation standards
  • Understanding of technical environments, landscapes, and broader architecture
  • Experience developing manual testing strategies and cases, and executing tests
  • Ability to set and validate quality and testing parameters and plans
  • Ability to work with DevOps teams, squads, scrum masters, engineers, project and program teams, and stakeholders
  • Ability to define acceptance criteria and success measures
  • Ability to document systems analysis and requirements
  • Ability to support developers and users during user acceptance testing

Benefits

  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Reasonable accommodations during recruitment
  • Preference may be given to candidates from designated underrepresented groups, including people with disabilities

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