My client based in Bellville (Northern Suburbs) is currently looking for a Technical Test Analyst to join them on a fixed term contract
IT / Finance
Responsibilities
- Identify how the project and test team align within the organisation and to determine how they would achieve the roadmap identified for the project
- Identify the scope of the testing required for a particular release based on the varying architectural and requirements documents
- Develop test plans / strategies after discussions with the project and test team and have it reviewed and approved by the management / development team
- Identify the required metrics and work to have them in place
- These metrics are the inherent goals for the test team
- Identify the testing effort required by calculating the sizing needed for the given release and plan the required effort for the same
- Identify skills required and balance the test resources according to those needs
- Identify if there are any skill gaps and determine training and development needs
- Identify the tools needed to enhance manual testing (web and mobile), test case management, test reporting and test automation
- Initiate the test planning activities for test case design and encourage the team to hold review meetings and ensure that the review comments are incorporated
- During the testing cycle, monitor the test progress by constantly assessing the work assigned and re-balance or re-allocate them as required
- Check if there might be any delays in achieving the schedule and hold discussions with the project and test team to identify and resolve issues that the team may be facing
- Present the status reports to the project and test team and / or stakeholders and the management team
- Prepare risk mitigation plans
- Identifying products to be assessed in the software review process
- Defining the appropriate test to be carried out including the test data to be used
- Managing the test data by documenting the results of each test cycle to identify flaws
- Liaising with the software development team
- Running diagnostic and system testing and presenting the information to the relevant stakeholders
- Interacting with and coordinating the development and validation team and ensuring that effective communication takes place
- Identifying and eliminating redundant functions and components
- Improving knowledge of business applications and user needs and expectations
- Understanding and implementing industry standards and protocols
- Able to understand how to and / or design, develop and run automated scripts
- Able to understand how to and / or collaborate with software developers and test analysts
- Able to understand how to and / or prepare test automation reports and analysis
- Able to understand and/or use test automation frameworks
Experience
- Grade 12 – while a degree / diploma in IT will be advantageous
- An appropriate testing qualification (e.g., ISTQB Foundation, ISTQB Advanced, etc.) will be advantageous
- Experience in financial services is required
- Experience in life insurance and / or banking will be advantageous
- Experience in testing with automated testing tools will be advantageous
- Experience in testing Dynamics 365 will be advantageous
- Experience in testing Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be advantageous
- A minimum of 2 to 4 years’ experience in testing within a solutions design division
- Any working knowledge of the following tools will be a strong recommendation:
- HP Quality Centre and / or Xray (or similar test management tools)
- JIRA (or similar defect management tools)
- SoapUI
- Postman
- Swagger
- Selenium (or similar automation tools)
- SQL Server Management Studio (or similar database management tools)
- IT testing and data analysis
- Reporting and Administration
- Business processes
- Test automation knowledge and / or experience (the latter is not a prerequisite)
Competencies
- Professionalism
- Results Driven
- Accuracy
- Analytical thinking
- Quality of decisions
- Customer service
- Communication skills
- Conceptual thinking
- Pro-activity and Initiative
- Ability to work independently
- Interpersonal Relationships
- Planning and organizing
If you are ready for the next exciting step in your career, and would like to apply, please send us your updated CV to review
Desired Skills:
- SQL
- Jira
- Amazon Web Services
- Testing
- SDLC
- HP Quality Center