Test Analyst x3 – BSTD needed at South African Reserve Bank

Brief description

• The main purpose of this position is to oversee the design, development and implementation of test strategies, test plans, test cases and defects management processes to ensure software and infrastructure meet the defined acceptance criteria (i.e. system behaviours), feature design specifications and application standards, ultimately supporting the delivery of quality solutions for the South African Reserve Bank.

Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Conduct various forms of testing, including functional, non-functional, integration, system integration, regression and user acceptance  testing.
• Analyse business requirements and perform gap analyses to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Compile test strategies, plans and cases to maintain a structured approach during testing.
• Evaluate, plan, design, develop and deploy testing techniques for new solutions, products, applications and enhancements to existing applications throughout the development life cycles.
• Manage defects and improve testing quality through early defect detection.
• Keep abreast of information and communications technology trends, specifically within infrastructure technical testing, to design and develop appropriate test approaches and solutions. 
• Prepare progress and quality reports, summarising test results and statistics to support the final approval for solution implementation.
• Compile user manuals and conduct training to support solution usage.

Qualifications
Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Bachelor of Computer Science degree (NQF 7) in IT or an equivalent qualification;
• five to eight years’ experience in technical testing; and 

these added advantages:

• general application security knowledge and experience; 
• server performance testing experience and/or working with monitoring tools;
• manual and automated application programming interface (API) testing experience; and.
• experience with tools such as Postman, UFT, Selenium, LoadRunner and J-Meter.

Additional requirements include:

knowledge and skill in:

• industry, organisational and business awareness;
• quality assurance;
• continuous improvement;
• continued learning and professional development;
• IT enablement legislation and governance, risk and compliance;
• application design and development;
• infrastructure testing; and 
• operations.