Solution Analyst

Absa Group Limited; Randburg; On-site; ZAR 400,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in Gauteng is looking for a Solution Analyst to join their DevOps team. The successful candidate will be responsible for applying analysis and testing tools to define business requirements and collaborate with squads for seamless delivery. A Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology is required. This role involves defining manual testing strategies and participating in peer reviews within the team.

Qualifications

• Proficient in defining and organizing business requirements.
• Experience with manual testing strategies and frameworks.
• Ability to work collaboratively within DevOps teams.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a DevOps team to define and organize business requirements.
• Translate business requirements into detailed systems requirements.
• Define and implement manual testing strategies.

Skills

Business analysis

Testing frameworks

Relationship building

Analytical techniques

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Job description

Job title : Solution Analyst

Job Location : Gauteng, Randburg

Deadline : October 31, 2025

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Job Summary

Work as part of a DevOps team, apply analysis & testing tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements into user stories. And following this analysis, work collaboratively within squads during design & delivery activity with a specific focus on testing.

Analysis (including Business Case)

• Proactively build relationships with business areas & DevOps teams to proactively develop expertise in the various business process.


• Apply analytical techniques to elicit and validate business (product & service) needs


• Translate elicited needs and knowledge acquired into user story format to be used by DevOps teams


• Prepare and prioritise the backlog of requirements for the user stories linked to the proposed solutions & or units of analysis


• Provide input into detailed solution roadmaps, business cases (e.g. effort estimations) & product & service visions (including detailed analysis requirements & solution scope)


• Define measures of success & key outcomes for various solutions / changes including detailed acceptance criteria for all features


• Define & execute testing requirements (pass or fail test cases)


• Document all systems analysis outcomes (requirements, test cases etc.) for specific solutions & support the documentation processes for system analysis for the broader team

Solution Design (within DevOps Context)

• Translate business requirements into detailed systems requirements. Detailed system requirements must include capabilities, interfaces and functionalities within and across technologies.


• Leverage business analysis & modeling tools and apply notation standards such as UML / BPMN to diagrammatically / visually document : business requirements, business processes, system processes & integration.


• Socialize and gain business approval for integrated requirements with key stakeholders


• Proactively learn & leverage knowledge on the organisations technical landscape, environment and broader architecture to systems requirements


• Work collaboratively with project / program teams, squads, scrum masters and engineers to define backlog, release & DevOps / project planning implications of the requirements (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 & implement 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 & implement manual testing frameworks and patterns for the solution


• Execute testing processes 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

Participate in peer reviews & problem solving within and across the broader team

Education

• Bachelor's Degree : Information Technology

End Date : October 22, 2025