Software Test Analyst - Stellenbosch at Capitec Bank

Purpose Statement

• To enable software quality assurance 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 (and/or members of the Feature Team) 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 qualification in Software Testing or Information Technology

Education (Ideal or Preferred)

• A relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology

Knowledge and Experience

Minimum:

• Understand the end-to-end processes being tested to achieve successful testing
• Knowledge of and exposure to impact analysis when introducing software changes 
• Understand the full Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Best practice / industry standard in software and hardware testing, reporting, tracking and follow up, and Software Quality Assurance (SQA)
• 3 years’ experience in Quality Assurance (QA) testing within a business context
• Knowledge of SQL Query/Fundamentals
• Knowledge of working with API Services

Ideal:

• Experience in continuous delivery environment
• Application of test tools
• Test Automation
• Financial/Banking Systems exposure
• Reinforce with stakeholders/feature team appropriate testing environments and timelines
• Good understanding of data structures

Skills

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