Open Positions at Allan Gray Proprietary Limited

Job Responsibilities

• Assist in implementing best testing practices in the team. 
• Participate in defining the testing approach for each sprint. 
• Collaborate with Business Analysts to extract testing requirements for user stories. 
• Collaborate with other Testers in the team.
• Estimate effort for testing tasks.
• Manage and maintain test data. 
• Contribute to automation of 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.
• Report on test execution, risks, and issues.
• Debug test results.
• Collaborate closely with developers, identifying, logging, prioritizing, and verifying defects in a defect tracking system. 
• 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 the PO with sign-off of for releases.
• Be first- and second-line support for production issues 24/7 on a rotational basis.

Skills and Experience Required

• You have experience testing data within databases, reports, and applications.
• You know how to read and write SQL.
• You have a practical understanding of CI/CD.
• You know where it is most effective for an automated test to live (Unit, Integration, Acceptance Testing, E2E). 
• You understand the benefits of manual testing but also the costs. 
• You are continually trying to improve your testing skills.  
• You have and can work under pressure. 
• 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.
• Experience in API integration testing.
• Understanding of microservice architecture.
• You can program.
• You have JavaScript skills.
• You have experience in other scripting languages.

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Responsibilities

• Checking and accurately processing all incoming or pending instructions. These include:
• New business transactions, e.g. opening a new investment account
• Existing business transactions, e.g. where a client adds or withdraws money or makes changes to their investment
• Providing clients and advisers with a superior level of client service through call and email communications, e.g. responding on time and diligently to all requests from clients, advisers and internal business teams
• Maintaining accurate record-keeping on internal systems of all interactions with clients and advisers
• Knowledge of various legislative requirements relating to investment products
• Supporting members of your team and the team leader, e.g. assisting with technical queries, workflow and processes

Job specification

• Relevant business degree and/or job-related experience
• Sound knowledge of the life insurance industry (including pension funds) and/or the unit trust industry would be an advantage