Junior Test Analyst

Recruiter:

Data Centrix

Job Ref:

JHB006831/Arnel

Date posted:

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Location:

Pretoria, South Africa

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.

Requirements

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.

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