Software Test Specialist needed at Capitec Bank

Purpose Statement

• To enable software quality assurance through ownership of the end-to-end testing process by creating a set of activities and scenarios, manual or automated, ensuring that developed software meets and complies with the defined or standardised quality specifications within the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• To collaborate with the Business Analysts to define test scenarios, and prepare, participate in, and oversee the execution of test cases within a feature team, the validation of functional and non-functional test requirements, the preparation of test data in terms of input and expected outcome data, and required test environments.

Education (Minimum)

• Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational
• A relevant tertiary qualification in Software Testing or Information Technology

Education (Ideal or Preferred)

• National Diploma in Information Technology

Knowledge and Experience

Minimum:

• Understand the end-to-end processes being tested to achieve successful testing
• Knowledge of Capitec’s Way of Work (WoW) during projects
• Knowledge of and exposure to impact analysis when introducing software changes 
• Understand the full Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Understand common software failures and faults
• Understand various software domains
• Understand system or application under test
• Understand variety of testing efforts 
• Best practice / industry standard in software and hardware testing, reporting, tracking and follow up, and Software Quality Assurance (SQA)
• 6+ years’ experience in Quality Assurance (QA) testing within a business context
• Experience in or exposure to coaching and mentoring other test team members

Ideal:

• Experience in continuous delivery environment
• Application of test tools
• Test Automation
• Financial/Banking Systems
• Reinforce with stakeholders/feature team appropriate testing environments and timelines
• Supervise testers and test analysts
• SQL Query/Fundamentals

Skills

• Analytical Skills
• Communications Skills
• Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills
• Problem solving skills
• Numerical Reasoning skills