Junior Test Analyst

SUMMARY:
Are you a motivated Junior Test Analyst ready to take the next step in your QA career? We’re offering a 24-month contract opportunity to work on a groundbreaking initiative transforming the digital payments landscape in Southern Africa. In this role, you’ll be involved in the end-to-end testing of a mission-critical payments system — covering everything from backend processes to front-end reporting. You’ll gain hands-on experience with functional, performance, and regression testing, while also playing a key role in user acceptance testing (UAT) coordination and reporting. This is a rare chance to build deep expertise in a fast-evolving domain while contributing to meaningful, high-impact work.

POSITION INFO:
Requirements

• 3 to 6 years’ experience in Test Analysis execution and Test Lead.
• 3 to 6 years’ experience in Test execution of reports.
• 3 to 6 years experienced in conducting functional testing, performance testing, and regression testing as well as co-ordinating and reporting on User Acceptance testing preparation, execution and sign off.
• Extensive knowledge of HP ALM.
• Experience in working on banking and payment system projects.
• An understanding of ETL.
• Experience in developing the SQL queries for validating data and testing back-end data advantageous.
• Knowledge of UFT and LoadRunner advantageous.

• Participate in the project throughout the remaining life cycle of a project. The Junior Functional Test Analyst will be responsible to support the Test Analyst with planning, execution of all testing deliverables.
• Define the test approach for the project and highlighting and mitigating risks.
• Prepare test data to align to the testing scenarios in each technical environment.
• Assist with enforcing the Testing Centre of Excellence (TCoE) standards within the project.
• Maintenance of testing defects and testing results.
• Report and obtain sign off for each test cycle.
• Operate in DevSecOps environment.
• Develop and configure test automation networks.
• Develop and execute test automation through UFT – HPALM plugin.
• Estimate test accurately and coordinate with team members for work activities.
• Apply, design and develop automated testing strategies and build automated testing frameworks.
• Analyse and verify best automated and manual test approaches and execute understand test objective requirements.
• Define regression packs based on critical business processes.
• Automate the regression suite and maintain these scripts accordingly.
• Any other services or task secondary to or closely related to the above.