Senior Technical Test Analyst

Momentum Investments; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 500 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company is seeking a QA Test Engineer to ensure the quality of business and technology solutions. The ideal candidate has a background in testing with an emphasis on financial services, automation experience, and SQL knowledge. Responsibilities include end-to-end testing, documentation of processes, and maintaining quality standards. The role is based in Gauteng, South Africa and offers the opportunity to work within a dynamic team environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years' experience in testing with at least 4 years in test automation.
• At least 2 years of investment/financial services experience.

Responsibilities

• Perform end-to-end manual and automated testing for business solutions.
• Define and ensure quality standards are achieved.
• Document test plans and scenarios.
• Execute and maintain regression tests.
• Report on QA practices and trends.

Skills

SQL knowledge

Test automation experience

Agile work environment

Analytical skills

Teamwork

Education

Degree in BSC / IT

Diploma in Information Technology

Testing qualification ISTQB / ISEB

Tools

Testing tools

Job description

Introduction

Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations. We help people grow their savings, protect what matters to them and invest for the future. We help companies and organisations care for and reward their employees and members. Through our own network of advisers or via independent brokers and utilising new platforms Momentum Group provides practical financial solutions for people, communities and businesses.

Role Purpose

Ensure the quality of all business and technology solutions is functionally and non-functionally tested, in order to meet the requirements and achieve overall sustainable quality of the business solution.

Requirements

• Degree in BSC / IT preferred.
• Diploma in Information Technology.
• Testing qualification ISTQB / ISEB preferred.
• Min 7 years' experience in testing with min 4 years in test automation.
• At least 2 years of investment / financial services experience.
• Exposure to diverse IT projects using a variety of testing tools and techniques.
• Must have SQL knowledge.
• Must have experience in an agile work environment.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end manual and automated testing for the business solutions.
• Test solution in terms of functionality, performance, reliability, stability, compatibility, and integration with other legacy- and / or external systems spanning functional and non-functional requirements.
• Assist with testing gap analysis between requirements and existing environments accurately for all digital / data / application solutions.
• Ensure that user stories are clearly defined and written correctly with acceptance criteria aligned with the team members in preparation for the backlog refinement meeting.
• Define quality standards upfront in the PI and sprint meeting and ensure they are achieved.
• Document the test plan before the start of any project or planned operational work and keep the test plans up to date.
• Document, maintain and monitor test scenarios, acceptance criteria and the final results to warrant the team's applications for the specified warranted functionality.
• Continue to build test automation artifacts.
• Execute and maintain the manual and automation regression tests.
• Demonstrate deliverables to key stakeholders.
• Test big data and ensure the outputs are transposed correctly.
• Report on the team QA way of work, feedback on trends, solutions and continuously optimise the way of work to ensure effective and efficient QA practices in the team and with Momentum Investments IT Quality COP.
• Contribute to the team's predictability by maintaining a view of the team's holistic test coverage.
• Minimise team defects by ensuring upfront code quality.
• Drive collective ownership for testing.
• Ensure / Report and champion the agreed quality standard and practice outlined within the MIIT COPpetencies.

Competencies

• Working with people
• Presenting and communicating information
• Applying QA expertise
• Analysing, planning and organising
• Ability to prioritise and sequence
• Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
• Following instructions and procedures
• Coping with pressures and setbacks
• Can work in a team
• Ability to multi-task
• Out-of-the-box testing thinking patterns
• Skilled with end-to-end testing
• Sharing knowledge
• Ability to drive and enable data quality