Finance Systems QA & UAT Specialist

Centrax Group

Johannesburg

On-site

ZAR 420,000 - 700,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Centrax Group in Johannesburg is seeking an experienced QA Tester to plan, design and execute testing across finance and actuarial systems, including SIT and UAT support, to ensure regulatory compliance and data integrity.

The role requires 5+ years in software testing with 3+ years in finance systems, strong SQL data validation, API testing, and hands-on test automation experience. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute to go-live readiness.

Qualifications

5+ years in software testing or quality assurance, with 3+ years testing finance systems in insurance or financial services.
Strong understanding of finance business processes, accounting principles and financial reporting.
Proven experience designing and executing test cases for ERP finance implementations and system integrations.
Hands-on data validation using SQL, including reconciliation of source-to-target data.
Experience testing integrations via APIs and message-based interfaces using tools such as Postman, SoapUI or REST Assured.
Test automation experience with Selenium, Playwright, Tosca, Cypress or a comparable framework.
Proficiency in test management and defect tracking tools -- Jira with Xray or Zephyr, Azure DevOps or Micro Focus ALM.
Experience leading or supporting UAT and SIT with business stakeholders.
Strong analytical, problem-solving and documentation skills, with high attention to detail.
Proficiency in MS Office and both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Responsibilities

Test Planning & Strategy - Contribute to test strategy and produce test plans, estimates and entry/exit criteria for assigned workstreams.
Apply risk-based testing to prioritise coverage against business criticality and regulatory impact.
Define test data requirements and work with data teams to provision compliant, representative test data.
Test Design & Execution - Analyse requirements, user stories and functional specifications to design test scenarios, cases and scripts with full traceability to requirements.
Execute functional, regression, integration, end-to-end and negative testing across finance platforms and interfaces.
Validate financial calculations, postings, reconciliations and reporting output against expected results.
Perform data validation and back-end verification using SQL, and test interfaces using API testing tools.
Automation & Tooling - Identify automation candidates and build, maintain and execute automated regression suites.
Maintain test artefacts in test management tooling and keep traceability matrices current.
Support performance, security and non-functional test execution where required.
Defect Management & Reporting - Log, triage, retest and close defects, driving them to resolution with development and vendor teams.
Produce clear test progress, coverage and quality reports for project and steering forums.
Provide an evidence-based quality assessment to support go/no-go decisions.
UAT & Business Readiness - Support and coordinate UAT and SIT cycles, including business user onboarding, scenario walkthroughs and daily defect triage.
Provide guidance and training to business testers on tooling, process and evidence capture.
Contribute to post-implementation verification and hypercare support.