Test Analyst II

Allan Gray Proprietary Limited; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 620,000; Full time

Job summary

Allan Gray Proprietary Limited is seeking a detail‑oriented Test Analyst to join the Retail IT testing community. You will own testing activities across the SDLC, define sprint testing approaches, and collaborate with Business Analysts and Developers to ensure high‑quality software delivery.

You will contribute to both manual and automated testing, maintain test data and pipelines, review merge requests, and drive quality improvements.

Qualifications

• Strong attention to detail and passion for quality software.
• Experience in testing across SDLC and collaborating with Business Analysts and Developers.
• Ability to create and maintain automated tests and scripts.
• Experience reviewing merge requests and improving CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of testing activities within your team across the SDLC.
• Apply and promote best testing practices within the team.
• Participate in defining the testing approach for each sprint.
• Work closely with Business Analysts to derive clear, testable user stories.
• Collaborate with Developers to identify, log, prioritise, and verify defects.
• Contribute to team ceremonies and quality discussions.
• Estimate testing effort and manage scope, risks, and timelines.
• Maintain and manage test data.
• Contribute to manual and automated tests in-sprint.
• Create, debug, verify and maintain automated scripts.
• Review others' Merge requests.
• Keep pipelines healthy and current.
• Report on test execution, risks and issues.
• Debug test results.
• Root cause analysis to prevent future defects.
• Contribute to use of available tools and technology.
• Implement quality improvement initiatives (supported by Senior testing leadership).
• Actively manage risk.
• Provide first‑ and second‑line support for production issues when required.

Skills

Quality assurance

Test automation

SDLC testing

Defect logging

Collaboration

Tools

Automation frameworks

CI/CD

Bug tracking systems

Job description

Allan Gray Retail IT consists of over 150 people who have a wide range of skills and responsibilities. One of the skills we take pride in, is software testing. Retail IT has a passionate testing community, which includes QA Architects, Test Leads, Managers, and mentors that work together with the Test Analysts to innovate, build testing frameworks, and help make our software delivery cycle more efficient so that we deliver good quality software timeously.
We believe our Test Analysts play a vital role not just in ensuring the quality of the software we develop, but in making it better, all the way from backend to frontend.
As a Test Analyst in our team, you will play a critical role in the design of our software to ensure it is developed with quality in mind from the very beginning and solving the many complex challenges along the way, using some of the industry’s latest technologies. Technical testing is a key part of what we do, so we expect our Test Analysts to have a strong technical background to help design, develop, and support the systems that enable us to deliver world class software rapidly.
Our ideal candidate is very detail oriented, experienced, passionate, innovative, self-driven, curious, is a critical thinker, and willing to both learn and share knowledge. Our space will provide the chosen candidate plenty of opportunities to learn about the asset management industry and our technologies, give space for creativity, and an opportunity to provide tremendous value.

Job Responsibilities

• Take ownership of testing activities within your team across the SDLC.
• Apply and promote best testing practices within the team.
• Participate in defining the testing approach for each sprint:

• Work closely with Business Analysts to derive clear, testable user stories.
• Collaborate closely with Developers, in identifying, logging, prioritizing, and verifying defects.
• Contribute meaningfully to team ceremonies and quality discussions.
• Estimate testing effort and manage expectations around scope, risks, and timelines.
• Manage and maintain test data.
• Contribute to manual and automated tests in-sprint.
• Actively contribute to increasing measurable manual and automation coverage at all levels.
• Maintain existing test packs.
• Document and execute manual tests.
• Create, debug, verify, and maintain automated scripts.
• Review others' Merge requests.
• Keep pipelines healthy and current.

• Report on test execution, risks, and issues.
• Debug test results.
• Follow and drive root cause analysis to prevent future defects, both in Prod and In-sprint.
• Contribute to the use of available tools and technology.
• Implement quality improvement initiatives (supported by Senior testing leadership).
• Actively manage risk.
• Provide first‑and second‑line support for production issues when required.