TESTER

Compitant Candidates; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Unknown Insurance Company in Cape Town is seeking a skilled Data Engineer with strong testing experience to join the team. You will review specifications, design test cases, and maintain regression suites across releases.

The role requires 5 years of testing experience, SQL proficiency, API testing with Postman, and familiarity with Agile/Scrum processes. Experience in financial services is advantageous, and POPIA data handling is expected.

Qualifications

• 5 years’ hands-on software testing experience within SDLC.

Responsibilities

• Review user stories, specs and acceptance criteria with BA and developer before dev starts.

Skills

SQL queries

API testing

Agile/Scrum

Regression testing

Test planning

Test case design

Education

Matric / NSC

Bachelor’s degree in IT/IS/CS

ISTQB Foundation Level

ISTQB Agile Tester extension (advantageous)

Tools

Postman

Selenium

Playwright

Test management/defect-tracking tools

Job description

An established insurance company is seeking to hire a highly skilled and experienced Data Engineer to join their team.

Your:

Formal Education:

• Matric / National Senior Certificate -essential.

• Bachelor’s degree in in Information Technology,Information Systems, Computer Science or similar.

• ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level -preferred; where not already held, to be obtained within 12 months of appointment.

• ISTQB Agile Tester extension, or a formal SQLor testautomation certification advantageous.

Experience:

• 5 years’ hands‑on software testing experience within structured software development lifecycle.
• Demonstrable experience designing and writing test cases from written functional specifications.
• Experience owning and executing a regression suite across multiple consecutive releases.
• Practical experience with a formal test management and defect tracking tools.
• Working SQL experience -SELECT statements, joins, filtering and aggregate queries -for independent data verification.
• API testing experience using Postman or a comparable REST client.
• Experience testing in an Agile / Scrum delivery environment.
• Experience in financial services -Investment, wealth or insurance platforms -strongly advantageous.
• Exposure to test automation tooling (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress or similar).

Will enable you to:

Responsibilities

• Review user stories, functional specifications and acceptance criteria with the Business Analyst and developer before development starts, and raise ambiguities, gaps and untestable requirements.
• Design and write test cases and test scripts from approved specifications, covering positive, negative, boundary and edge conditions.
• Maintain test cases, test suites and test runs in approved test management and defect-tracking tools.
• Execute functional, integration, regression, cross-browser and basic usability testing on new features and changes.
• Maintain and execute the regression pack for every release and keep it current as functionality changes.
• Verify data outcomes by writing SQL queries against the application database and test REST API endpoints using Postman.
• Log defects in approved test management and defect-tracking tools with clear reproduction steps, expected versus actual result, environment detail, severity, priority and supporting evidence; retest and close on fix.
• Perform smoke and sanity testing after each deployment to test and staging environments.
• Prepare and maintain test data, using de‑identified or synthetic data only, live client data is not used in nonproduction environments.
• Support User Acceptance Testing: prepare the environment and data, guide business users, and triage, record and track their feedback.
• Produce a test summary and release evidence pack for each release, showing what was tested, what passed, what failed and what remains open.
• Participate in sprint planning, refinement, daily stand-ups and retrospectives, and provide test effort estimates for stories.
• Build and maintain automated checks for stable, high-value regression scenarios under the guidance of the CTO, as this capability develops.
• Keep test documentation, standards and process notes current.
• Accountable for the adequacy and completeness of test coverage for assigned features and releases.
• Accountable for the integrity, currency and reliability of the regression suite.
• Accountable for accurate and auditable test records - traceability from requirement, to test case, to result, to defect, for every release.
• Provides an independent quality view: raises release risk clearly and on record, including under delivery pressure, and does not sign off on evidence that has not been produced.
• Escalates defects carrying regulatory, financial-calculation, permission or client-data exposure immediately to the Chief Technology Officer and Project Manager, rather than logging them through the routine queue.
• Responsible for handling all data encountered during testing confidentially and in line with company data protection policy and POPIA obligations, and for reporting any exposure of personal information in a non-production environment.
• Contributes to the improvement of test process, standards, tooling and estimation within the team.
• Supports the Business Analysts by giving early feedback on the testability of specifications.
• The Tester recommends whether testing supports release readiness and may withhold test sign-off where agreed exit criteria have not been met. Final production-release approval remains subject to the approved release governance process.