(647) Business Quality Assurance Specialist x2 - BSTD at South African Reserve Bank

Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Plan and execute business analysis and quality testing activities.
• Facilitate workshops and consult with business owners and other stakeholders to understand business objectives, drivers, functions and structures as well as to identify business requirements.
• Review business processes and procedures, analyse business requirements/needs and associated data, and identify possible solutions.
• Analyse the feasible solution options, recommend viable solutions, validate these with stakeholders, and develop the supporting business cases.
• Manage stakeholder relationships to ensure the delivery of high-quality service and fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Develop systems training material and training plans and present training courses in support of new application functions.
• Consult with business and technical stakeholders to elicit, analyse, communicate, document and validate requirements for changes to business processes or systems requirements.
• Participate in the creation, maintenance and execution of testing and quality plans, and application benchmarks to ensure the correct product testing approach.
• Develop progress and quality reports (encapsulating test results and statistics) to support the final approval for the implementation of the solution.
• Help identify likely product quality problems ahead of time and assist in potential requirement and process changes.
• Stay abreast of changes to analytical tools and methodologies and identify opportunities to improve and standardise work processes and apply these in the course of own work.

Qualifications

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Bachelor’s degree (NQF 7) in Information Technology (IT) or an equivalent qualification;
• a relevant Business Analysis certificate;
• five to eight years’ experience within the business analysis environment; and 
• at least three years’ experience in test analysis and execution.

The following would be an added advantage:

• an International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) foundation certificate would be an added advantage.

Additional requirements include:

knowledge and skill in:

• industry, organisational and business awareness;
• quality assurance;
• continuous improvement;
• continued learning and professional development;
• business analysis practices, methodologies and tools; and 
• IT enablement legislation and governance, risk and compliance.