TA32E _ Test Analyst

SUMMARY:
TA32E _ Test Analyst
Location: Gauteng
Contract Term: 1 June 2024 - 31 December 2025

POSITION INFO:
ESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:
- Understanding of systems engineering and testing concepts
- Experience reviewing requirements and developing test cases based on those requirements.
- Ability to break down test cases in buckets and prioties
- JIRA, Confluence and X-Ray experience
- 5-8 years of manual and automation testing experience
- Java automation experience
- API testing mandatory
- Complete understanding of testing lifecycle
- Requirement review & static analysis
- Analyse, build and write full Test Automation Scripts
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- RestAssured/Cucumber framework for front end testing
- Defect management
- Reporting
- Presentation

ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:
- Agile development methodologies
- Development lifecycle
- Understanding of non-functional testing

WHICH QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE DO WE NEED FOR THE ROLE?
- Work experience, A degree or diploma in Computer Science/Information Systems or a related field is preferred.



WHAT WILL BE YOUR ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES?
e.g. Core Role tasks and responsibilities
- Collaboration with Team Lead, Stakeholders, IT PO and Team regarding Testing topics
- Writing test cases, Test Execution, Defect capture.
- Planning and effort estimation for test case execution
- Perform in the manual execution of test cases for SIT and defect retesting when required.
- Conducts UAT session with identified business users
- Obtain sign off from the identified business users
- Communicating, follow up and resolving defects
- Assigning defects to developer
- Retesting of defects after a fix applied by the developer
- Closing the defects that have been fixed and retested
- Using XRay to perform all testing activities
- Defect management and reporting – Communicating defect issues to project team and back to business upon request including reporting (types of defects, the cause, and the severity of the defect), assigning and tracking resolution of software issues. (SIT and UAT)
- Review and provide feedback on requirements documents to ensure completion from a testing perspective
- Coordinate test data creation with the developers
- Track new/changed requirements and ensure these are addressed during testing
- Escalate deviations in the plan to Project Lead, Agile Master / DevOps Lead
- Ensure that project time allocated to testing are utilized efficiently and effectively