Test Data Analyst at Discovery Limited

Job Purpose

The purpose of the role is to develop scripts using services or using GUI’s to automate the creation of test data, and provision data to development and testing stakeholders in various environments.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Analysis of services to select best automation point to create test data
• Creating and maintaining test scripts in a shared, version-controlled script repository
• Working with the test automation team to coordinate automation data requirements
• Executing data creation scripts and validating output to ensure data is provisioned correctly
• Providing test data to project stakeholder
• Maintaining the data master repository for data reuse
• Maintenance of data to ensure that data provisioned remains relevant

Personal attributes and skills

• Ability to work and deliver under tight deadlines
• Attention to detail
• Business Writing Skills, Presentation and Facilitation Skills
• Customer Service Orientation, Result Orientation, Negotiation skills
• Personal organisation and time management skills
• Professional Communication (written, verbal/presenting and listening)
• Ability to build relationships with people from all different backgrounds and at different job levels

Education and Experience

• Matric/Grade 12 and relevant university qualification
• ISTQB Certification (advantageous)
• Experience in use of scripting and execution tools with associated programming languages:
• VUGen / LoadRunner
  • UIPath
  • Jenkins
  • Maven
  • Restassured / Java programming / JSON
  • Selenium
  • SourceTree / GitBash
  • Postman
  • XML
  • C programming