Technical Test Analyst

About the position

Psybergate is an IT company that builds bespoke software solutions and provides highly skilled resources to its clients.
We are looking for a Technical Test Analyst to join our financial services client based in Centurion for a 12-months contract role.
What you will be doing: 

• 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 within 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. 

What we are looking for:

• Completed Degree or Diploma in IT or other related fields
• 5 - 7 years’ experience in testing with minimum 2 years in test automation.
• 2 years of investment/financial services experience
• Experience in UI Test Automation (Scripting)
• 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. 

 
Please note that if you do not hear from us within 3 weeks, consider your application unsuccessful.

Desired Skills:

• API
• UI Test Automation
• SQL