Onsite Test Analyst

Centrax Digital UK; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

Centrax Digital UK is seeking a Test Analyst to plan, design and execute testing across finance and actuarial systems. You will own test coverage from functional and integration testing through to SIT and UAT support, ensuring robust quality for go-live decisions.

Key focus areas include risk-based test planning, requirements traceability, validation of financial calculations and reporting, and automation of regression suites with coordination of UAT with business users.

Qualifications

• Our client seeks a Test Analyst with deep finance domain experience and strong QA discipline.
• Need ERP finance/test design, integration testing, and data validation capabilities.
• Experience validating financial calculations and reporting output.

Responsibilities

• Plan, design and execute testing across finance and actuarial systems.
• Own test coverage from functional and integration testing through SIT and UAT support.
• Implement risk-based test planning with full requirements traceability.
• Coordinate UAT with business users and manage defects across teams.

Skills

Test design

Finance systems

SQL data validation

API testing

Test automation

UAT coordination

Tools

Postman

SoapUI

REST Assured

Selenium

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

Our client, a leading financial services and insurance group, requires a Test Analyst to plan, design and execute testing across finance and actuarial systems. Reporting into the Head: Centre IT via the Test Manager, you will own test coverage from functional and integration testing through to System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) support, providing the quality assurance that underpins confident go-live decisions.

Key focus areas: risk-based test planning, test design with full requirements traceability, validation of financial calculations and reporting output, automation of regression suites, defect management, and UAT coordination with business users.

Requirements

Our client, a leading financial services and insurance group, requires a Test Analyst to plan, design and execute testing across finance and actuarial systems. Reporting into the Head: Centre IT via the Test Manager, you will own test coverage from functional and integration testing through to System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) support, providing the quality assurance that underpins confident go-live decisions.

Key focus areas: risk-based test planning, test design with full requirements traceability, validation of financial calculations and reporting output, automation of regression suites, defect management, and UAT coordination with business users.

Requirements

• 5+ years in software testing or QA, with 3+ years testing finance systems in insurance or financial services
• Proven test design and execution for ERP finance implementations and system integrations
• Hands-on data validation using SQL, including source-to-target reconciliation
• API and message-based interface testing using Postman, SoapUI or REST Assured
• Test automation with Selenium, Playwright, Tosca, Cypress or comparable frameworks
• Test management and defect tracking in Jira (Xray/Zephyr), Azure DevOps or Micro Focus ALM
• Experience leading or supporting UAT and SIT with business stakeholders
• Strong understanding of finance processes, accounting principles and financial reporting
• High attention to detail and strong documentation skills
• Agile and Waterfall methodologies

Benefits

Market related benefits.