Job Description

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 An exciting role that focuses on optimization opportunities into innovative solutions and process optimization efforts. This specialist role allows a colleague to work closely with business process engineers, with a measure of autonomy and work in a multi- disciplinary team both in business and delivery teams. This role will advise business on innovation and latest trends to improve efficiencies. In this role, you will have an opportunity to influence both business and the delivery teams on new change programmes and implementation thereof to address business needs.

• To provide specialist advice and support in the development and implementation of business analysis and associated service delivery processes, methods and techniques.
• 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
• Facilitate communication between the business, technical, and non-technical stakeholders, acting as a bridge to ensure mutual understanding and alignment
• 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
• Monitor overall backlog planning for effective solution delivery
• Provide Developer & User support during user acceptance testing
• Provide coaching & mentoring across the developing analysts across the estate
• Conduct peer reviews & problem solving within and across the broader team

Education
Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (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