Test Analyst II | Retail IT | BI at Allan Gray Proprietary Limited

Job Summary

• Allan Gray Retail IT consists of over 150 people who have a wide range of skills and responsibilities. One of the skills we take pride in, is software testing. Retail IT has a passionate testing community, which includes QA Architects, Test Leads, Managers, and mentors that work together with the Test Analysts to innovate, build testing frameworks, and help make our software delivery cycle more efficient so that we deliver good quality software timeously. 
• We believe our Test Analysts play a vital role not just in ensuring the quality of the software we develop, but in making it better, all the way from backend to frontend.
• As a Test Analyst in our team, you will play a critical role in the design of our software to ensure it is developed with quality in mind from the very beginning and solving the many complex challenges along the way, using some of the industry’s latest technologies. Technical testing is a key part of what we do, so we expect our Test Analysts to have a strong technical background to help design, develop, and support the systems that enable us to deliver world class software rapidly.
• Our ideal candidate is very detail oriented, experienced, passionate, innovative, self-driven, curious, is a critical thinker, and willing to both learn and share knowledge. Our space will provide the chosen candidate plenty of opportunities to learn about the asset management industry and our technologies, give space for creativity, and an opportunity to provide tremendous value.

Job Responsibilities

• Take ownership of testing activities within your team across the SDLC.
• Apply and promote best testing practices within the team.
• Participate in defining the testing approach for each sprint:
• Work closely with Business Analysts to derive clear, testable user stories. 
• Collaborate closely with Developers, in identifying, logging, prioritizing, and verifying defects. 
• Contribute meaningfully to team ceremonies and quality discussions.
• Estimate testing effort and manage expectations around scope, risks, and timelines.
• Manage and maintain test data. 
• Contribute to manual and automated tests in-sprint.
• Actively contribute to increasing measurable manual and automation coverage at all levels.
• Maintain existing test packs.
• Document and execute manual tests.
• Create, debug, verify, and maintain automated scripts.
• Review others' Merge requests.
• Keep pipelines healthy and current.
• Report on test execution, risks, and issues.
• Debug test results.
• Follow and drive root cause analysis to prevent future defects, both in Prod and In-sprint.
• Contribute to the use of available tools and technology.
• Implement quality improvement initiatives (supported by Senior testing leadership).
• Actively manage risk. 
• Provide first‑ and second‑line support for production issues when required.

Competencies

• You have strong analytical thinking with the ability to break down complex problems into clear, test artifacts. 
• You have proven experience in API testing.
• You understand microservice architecture.
• You know how to read and write SQL, with experience testing within databases, reports, and applications.
• You have a practical understanding of CI/CD.
• You know where automation adds value (Unit, Integration, Acceptance Testing, E2E). 
• You understand the benefits and costs of manual vs automated testing.
• You are continually trying to improve your testing skills.  
• You have and can work under pressure and manage competing priorities. 
• You have solved complex testing issues. 
• You can drive testing tasks and manage expectations around them.
• You can understand requirements to come up with sufficient and measurable testing coverage.
• You can quickly learn new technologies and apply them effectively in testing.
• You can program.
• You have working knowledge JavaScript.
• You have experience in other scripting languages.

Education

• Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems ideal.