Manual Test Analyst (CPT and GT) at Sanlam Group

Overall Role Purpose

• This role has the primary responsibility to plan, structure and undertake business- and system testing processes. It will also undertake application testing within Sanlam Corporate’s application and integration testing with other systems. This role works closely with other Business Analysts, System Analysts, IT development and Audit to ensure business requirements for new solutions/changes are met and implemented correctly.

What will you do?

•     Identify, define and design new functionality and regressive test requirements
•     Perform test scheduling and execution
•     Identify and create test data
•     Perform test case preparations and design, assist with the scripting of automated test cases, conditions and checkpoints
•     Develop test scenarios to test each software component and demonstrate the business condition under test and the expected results
•     Perform test reporting based upon coverage and clearance statistics
•     Perform test documentation compilation
•     Identify and analyse defects, log defects and track defect resolution within release time frames
•     Risk identification and reporting
•     Perform scope and test effort estimations
•     Analyse risks, develop contingencies, and plan testing accordingly

What will make you successful in this role?

•     Testing Knowledge &Tools
•     Knowledge of test automation, comparison and performance tools
•     Working knowledge of Software Quality assurance
•     MS: Office (Excel, PP, Word, Outlook)
•     Microsoft SQL server management studio – ability to write SQL queries and understand the data
•     Mapping and Comparison tools
•     Experience with non-gui test frameworks and SoapUI / Postman

    Testing Processes

•     Working knowledge of Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
•     Working knowledge of Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC)

    System Knowledge

•     Working knowledge of software engineering best practices and frameworks
•     Workflows
•     Rules Engines
•     Databases
   

Qualifications and Experience

•     MatricAn appropriate tertiary qualification
•     A relevant testing related qualification such as ISTQB/ISEB qualification will be an advantage
•     2+ years testing experience is preferred
•     Automation Testing experience will be an advantage

Knowledge and Skills

• IT testing
• IT Data Analysis
• Reporting and Administration
• Business processes

Personal Attributes

• Communicates effectively - Contributing dependently
• Decision quality - Contributing dependently
• Action orientated - Contributing dependently
• Optimises work processes - Contributing dependently

Build a successful career with us

• We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping  our employees to realise their worth. Through its four business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies

• Cultivates innovation - Contributing dependently
• Customer focus - Contributing dependently
• Drives results - Contributing dependently
• Collaborates - Contributing dependently
• Being resilient - Contributing dependently

Turnaround time

• The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers. 

Our commitment to transformation

• The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity.  This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa.  The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.