Open Roles at PPS

Job Advert Summary    

• Reporting into the Gemini: Test Lead, the Test Analyst is independently able to Support the team with carrying out all levels of software testing as part of the full SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) to deliver high-quality solutions on projects.

Minimum Requirements    
Formal Qualifications:

• Matric – essential
• 3 Year IT degree or diploma – advantageous
• Practical Software Testing – essential
• ISTQB Foundation Certificate – essential
• ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst – advantageous
• ISTQB Agile tester – advantageous
• ITIL Foundation – advantageous
• SAFe Practitioner – advantageous

Knowledge and Experience:

• Minimum 3 - 4 years’ experience in a financial industry
• Minimum 3 - 4 years’ experience in broad testing methodologies
• Minimum 3 - 4 years’ experience in testing specification creation experience
• Working knowledge of a Test management tool, e.g. Selenium, Gitlab, etc.

Duties and Responsibilities 

Test Strategy & Process

• Review of supporting documentation for accuracy
• Identification of system functions for testing
• Identification and extraction of test requirements
• Risk analysis and identification
• Specification of test data requirements
• Test case design
• Integration test case design
• Confirmation of test environment readiness
• Sequencing and scheduling of test cases
• Execution of test cases
• Logging of defects
• Mentoring of less experienced testers
• Knowledge transfer to client and team
• Compilation of test plans and models
• implementation of the test & defect management processes
• Testing Matrices
• Defect Management
• Liaison with development & business analysts and other stakeholders.

Strategic Orientation:

• Review of supporting documentation for accuracy
• Identification of system functions for testing
• Identification and extraction of test requirements
• Test case design and maintenance
• Test scheduling
• Execution of test cases
• Defect Management
• Test Matrices