Specialist Solution Analyst - Investor Services at Absa South Africa

Job Summary

• We are seeking a Specialist Solution Analyst to work with the DevOps team and use specialist analysis and testing tools, frameworks, techniques, and practices to elicit, define, and structure business requirements.
• The role involves translating business requirements into user stories and specifications across full-stack and cross-system solutions, clearly documenting integration points, business needs, and associated risks and opportunities.
• The successful candidate will work collaboratively within squads throughout design and delivery, including taking responsibility for manual application testing processes, frameworks, and outcomes.

Job Description

Your key accountabilities will include the following;

• Proactively building relationships, apply analytical techniques to elicit and validate business (product and service) needs ahead of demand
• Establishing regular routines to build deep understanding of key business processes, including spending time with business teams and end users
• Translating identified needs and acquired insights into clear, actionable user stories that DevOps teams can readily use for building and testing
• Preparing and prioritising the backlog of requirements for the user stories linked to the proposed solutions
• Translating business requirements into detailed system requirements that define capabilities, interfaces, and functionalities within and across technologies
• Building detailed user stories to be leveraged for system requirements design (modular)
• Leveraging business analysis and modeling tools and apply notation standards such as UML/BPMN to diagrammatically/visually document: business requirements, business processes, system processes and integration
• Defining the manual testing strategy and test cases for various solutions (where it makes sense to do so)
• Defining, validating quality and testing parameters as well as plans for the solution. Socialising and translating these to automation testing teams.

If you have the relevant experience and meet the criteria below, we invite you to send us your CV.

• B Degree / NQF Level 7 in Information Systems, Computer Science, Informatics, Business Analysis, Business Management, Finance, Engineering or a related discipline.
• Relevant professional certification in Business Analysis, Agile/Scrum, Testing, UML/BPMN process modelling, or Risk/Compliance would be advantageous.
• 5 years working experience in banking, financial services, payments, or regulated technology environments would be preferred

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

End Date: July 24, 2026