Test Analyst II | Retail IT | Core (Flex) at Allan Gray Proprietary Limited

• 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

• Good knowledge of investment administration systems and processes, including investor accounts, investments, withdrawals, switches, fees, standing instructions, holdings and balances
• Strong Oracle SQL skills for data validation, reconciliation and defect investigation
• Experience testing batch processes and End-of-Day workflows
• Experience testing user interfaces and end-to-end business processes
• Experience testing SOAP and REST web services
• The ability to investigate problems across applications, services, databases and connected systems
• Experience testing changes delivered by an outsourced development team
• Strong test planning, defect management, test evidence and release reporting skills

Strongly advantageous

The following experience would be beneficial:

• Experience with Flexcube or a similar investment administration system
• Testing Oracle stored procedures and scheduled jobs
• Designing reconciliation queries and reusable validation scripts
• Testing events, message queues and asynchronous processing
• Test automation and CI pipelines
• WireMock or similar service-mocking tools
• Working with Scala, Go, Jest or Docker-based applications