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Senior Solution Analyst
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Job Title: Senior Solution Analyst
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Johannesburg
The Job
Requirements:
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 & modelling 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.
Desired experience & qualification:
- 6-8 years business & systems analysis experience.
- 6-8 years’ Experience in working with multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience in Agile Methodology & working embedded within an Agile team / team.
- Degree or Diploma in computer science, commerce, or business administration.
- information Systems Analyst certification from Institute for the Certification of Computing Professionals, expert level.
- 6-8 years coaching & mentoring experience.
- Banking domain experience, preferred.
- Expertise in Systems Design & Integration.
- Testing Certification (preferred).
- Expertise in Development.
- Expertise in Business Continuity Management & Disaster Recovery.
- Expertise in Governance, Compliance, & Audit.
- Expertise in Quality Assurance & Testing.
- Expertise in Systems & integration design.
Competencies: (Maximum of 8 competencies):
- Examining Information.
- Documenting Facts.
- Interpreting Data.
- Interacting with People.
- Establishing Report.
- Articulating Information.
- Conveying Self-confidence.
- Producing Output.
Package & Remuneration:
- Will be agreed based on qualifications, applicable banking experience and previous earnings.
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