IT Test Analyst

Boardroom Appointments; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm in South Africa is looking for a skilled Quality Assurance Specialist. You will perform QA tasks, engage with stakeholders, and ensure a quality product before release. Ideal candidates will have experience in banking/financial services, strong communication skills, and critical thinking abilities. This role involves developing test plans and ensuring compliance with standards, making it perfect for detail-oriented professionals.

Qualifications

• Experience in Banking / Financial Services, particularly with financial products.
• Exposure to compliance and regulatory environment in financial services is beneficial.
• Self-starter who takes ownership of outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Perform Quality Assurance and engage with stakeholders.
• Develop awareness of platform capabilities.
• Translate business requirements into test plans and perform testing.

Skills

Intermediate to Senior-Intermediate test analysis

Good documentation and communication skills

Critical thinking

Education

Degree, Diploma, or relevant Certification

Job description

Qualifications

• Intermediate to Senior-Intermediate test analysis
• Banking / Financial Services experience, particularly with financial products, related trading activities, and life cycle
• Exposure to compliance and regulatory environment in financial services (beneficial)
• Exposure to foreign exchange trading activities (beneficial)
• Degree, Diploma, or relevant Certification
• Good documentation and communication skills
• Self-starter who takes ownership of expected outcomes; self-managed
• Big picture thinking
• Critical thinking

Responsibilities

• Perform Quality Assurance
• Engage with stakeholders (both business and technology)
• Develop awareness of platform capabilities
• Apply client-centric thinking in a banking context
• Translate business requirements and functional specifications into test plans and test packs
• Perform testing on the platform as required, including integration, regression, functional, and end-to-end testing
• Document test results and communicate them to relevant parties (project manager, analyst, vendor, etc.)
• Communicate effectively at both business and technical levels with business analysts, vendors, and business stakeholders
• Ensure a quality product before release by obtaining sign-off on test cases
• Prepare release documentation, including deployment and back-out plans, with support from the business analyst
• Periodically fulfill a support role post-implementation