Senior Specialist: HRIS Business 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.
Job Summary
Work in high complexity environments, fully embedded in a DevOps team, leveraging specialist analysis tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements, across multiple stakeholder groups. Translate & document these 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 to ensure the business requirements are met through DevOps design & delivery activity & lead the application of testing processes & frameworks ensuring all products & services are effectively tested.
Job Description
Analysis (including Business Case):
- Lead the analysis process for complex business areas.
- 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.
- Translate elicited needs 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.
- Proactively scan the internal & external environment to predict change requirements & opportunities for improvement.
- Work collaboratively with Tribe Leads to build a roadmap & vision for the products and services.
- Define measures of success & key outcomes for various solutions / changes including detailed acceptance criteria.
- Define testing requirements (pass or fail test cases).
- Support the development of detailed business cases.
Solution Design (within DevOps Context):
- Translate business requirements into an integrated system vision & detailed systems requirements.
- Build detailed user stories to be leveraged for system requirements design.
- Leverage business analysis & modeling tools to document business requirements, business processes, system processes & integration.
- Facilitate processes to ensure integrated requirements are socialized, understood & approved across stakeholders.
- Understand & leverage knowledge on the organisations technical landscape to define integration points across tech stacks.
- Work collaboratively with project / program teams to define backlog, release & DevOps / project planning implications.
- Work as part of the embedded DevOps team to continuously improve system requirements mapping.
- Facilitate resolution & decision making during development & testing phases.
Solution Delivery & Testing (manual):
- Define the manual testing strategy & test cases for various solutions.
- Define & validate quality & testing parameters for the solution.
- Develop manual testing frameworks and patterns for the solution.
- Lead the manual testing process for various solutions.
- Provide real time feedback to the DevOps teams on change requirements identified throughout the testing process.
- Review & monitor system stability throughout the testing process.
- Define & monitor overall backlog planning for effective solution delivery.
- Provide Developer & User support during user acceptance testing.
Process Design & Modelling:
- Provide input & or lead the development / improvement of organization wide process design approaches.
People:
- Provide coaching & mentoring across the DevOps team.
- Build strong analysis capability across the analysis team.
- Conduct peer reviews & problem solving within and across the broader team.
- Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Analysts.
- Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and Absa Policies and Policy Standards.
- Understand and manage risks and risk events (incidents) relevant to the role.
Education
Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology (Required)
Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised.
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