Senior Test Analyst - Onsite Contract (Cape Town)

Datonomy Solutions; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Datonomy Solutions is seeking a Senior Test Analyst to join our team in Cape Town. This contracting, onsite role focuses on owning complex test scopes, delivering manual and automated testing, and strengthening regression coverage to support risk-based releases.

You will design risk-based tests, execute functional and exploratory testing, develop automated tests within the existing framework, and verify interfaces using SQL and API checks.

Qualifications

• Substantial hands-on software testing experience with ownership of complex test scope.
• Manual testing and practical automation development experience, maintaining tests as the system changes.
• Experience with an automation framework and the programming or scripting language used by that framework.
• Strong test design, defect investigation and requirements traceability skills.
• Ability to validate integrations or APIs and interrogate data using SQL where needed.
• Evidence of working independently, reviewing others' work and explaining release risks clearly.

Responsibilities

• Analyse requirements and acceptance criteria, identify gaps and design risk-based tests for complex business journeys.
• Execute functional, integration, exploratory and regression tests, including exception paths and recovery scenarios.
• Develop and maintain automated tests in the agreed framework, prioritising repeatable, valuable regression coverage.
• Use API checks and SQL validation where relevant to verify interfaces, transaction states and underlying data.
• Investigate defects, provide reproducible evidence and work with developers and analysts to resolve root causes.
• Maintain test data and coverage records, review automation reliability and contribute to release quality reporting.
• Review test design, guide less experienced testers and improve testing practices with the Test Manager or delivery lead.

Skills

Senior

Test

Analyst

Automation

API testing

SQL

Education

ISTQB certification

Tools

Automation framework

Job description

Datonomy Solutions is seeking a Senior Test Analyst to join our team in Cape Town. This contracting, onsite role focuses on owning complex test scopes, delivering manual and automated testing, and strengthening regression coverage to support risk-based releases.

You will design risk-based tests, execute functional and exploratory testing, develop automated tests within the existing framework, and verify interfaces using SQL and API checks.