Technical Test Analyst (Automation)

Swan IT is searching for a Technical Test Analyst  to join a client in Johannesburg. The ideal candidate must have automation experience and previous financial services experience is highly beneficial. This position will ensure the quality of all business and technology solutions is functionally and non-functionally tested, in order to meet the requirements and achieve overall sustainable quality of the business solution.

Responsibilities:

• End-To-End manual and automated testing for the business solutions. The solution should be tested in terms of functionality, performance, reliability, stability, compatibility, and integration with other legacy- and/or external systems.


• Assist with the testing gap analysis between requirements and existing environments accurately for all digital solutions.


• Ensure that user stories are clearly defined and written correctly with acceptance criteria in preparation for the backlog refinement meeting.


• Define quality standards upfront in the PI and sprint meeting and ensure they are achieved


• Document the test plan prior to the start of any project or planned operational work and keep the test plans up to date.


• Document, maintain and monitor test scenarios, acceptance criteria and the final results.


• Continuously build test automation artifacts.


• Execute and maintain the manual and automation regression tests.


• Demonstrate deliverables to key stakeholders.


• Test big data and ensure the outputs are transposed correctly.


• Report on the team QA way of work, feedback on trends and solutions and continuously optimize the way of work to ensure effective and efficient QA practices in the team and with the company.


• Contribute to the team’s predictability by maintaining a view of the teams wholistic test coverage.


• Minimise team defects by ensuring upfront code quality.


• Drive collective ownership for testing.


• Ensure the agreed quality standard is maintained always.

Requirements:

• Degree/Diploma in IT


• ISTQB/ISEB.


• 5 - 7 years’ experience in testing with min 2 years in test automation.


• At least 2 years of investment/financial services experience


• At least 1 year experience in API Testing.


• Exposure to diverse IT projects using a variety of testing tools and techniques.


• Must have SQL knowledge.


• Must have experience in an agile work environment.


• Must have business process automation experience.