Senior Test Strategist – Banking & Payments

JCM Consultants; Rosebank; Híbrido; ZAR 900.000 - 1.200.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

JCM Consultants is seeking a Senior Test Analyst to lead test strategy, end-to-end testing, and defect management in a complex banking and payments environment. The role focuses on governance, quality assurance and stakeholder collaboration across multiple teams and vendor platforms.

You will review requirements and APIs, develop test cases and traceability, and coordinate across participant systems to ensure regulatory and industry standards are met.

Formación

• 7-10 years' experience in Software Testing and QA.
• Experience in Agile, Scrum and Waterfall environments.
• Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, Eng, BIS or related field.
• ISTQB or equivalent certification advantageous.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in Banking/Fintech/Payments environments.

Responsabilidades

• Develop and maintain test strategies, plans, schedules, entry/exit criteria, and governance processes.
• Review requirements, APIs, and interfaces to identify test scenarios and coverage.
• Develop and maintain test cases, data requirements and traceability matrices.
• Coordinate and execute functional, integration, end-to-end, regression and conformance testing.
• Manage defects from identification to closure and retesting.
• Coordinate testing across participant systems, vendors and external interfaces.
• Support UAT preparation, execution, reporting and sign-off.
• Coordinate environments, data availability and access requirements.
• Identify risks and mitigation strategies; work with stakeholders across teams.

Conocimientos

Test strategy

Agile/Scrum/Waterfall

Defect management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Analytical thinking

Coordination

Attention to detail

Educación

Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, Eng, BIS or related

Herramientas

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft Office

SharePoint

Test-management tools

Postman

Swagger

SQL

Descripción del empleo

JCM Consultants is seeking a Senior Test Analyst to lead test strategy, end-to-end testing, and defect management in a complex banking and payments environment. The role focuses on governance, quality assurance and stakeholder collaboration across multiple teams and vendor platforms.

You will review requirements and APIs, develop test cases and traceability, and coordinate across participant systems to ensure regulatory and industry standards are met.