Senior Test Analyst at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

Description of the role: 

The Senior Test Analyst will join our QA team and work closely with the business analysts, developers and project managers in different delivery streams. 

Role responsibilities: 

• All manual testing activities during all phases of the SDLC from analysing business requirements to designing and executing test cases in different environments. 

• Creating and maintaining test plans on waterfall projects. 

• Creating and updating test cases to meet the business functional requirements. 

• Assisting Junior Test Analysts in identifying functional scenarios.

• Reviewing and signing off test cases design and execution suits. 

• Identifying, maintaining and glag test cases for regression and automation purpose.

• Identifying, preparing and maintaining test data in different test environment.

• Performing manual execution of the functional test cases within all test cycles (Unit, System Integration, UAT, Regression, Smoke).

• Making use of defect tracking tools such as JIRA to log, managing, resolve and report on bugs / defects.

• Assisting Junior Test Analyst with their testing tasks.

• Participating in all scrum ceremonies such as backlog grooming, sprint planning, retros, daily stand-ups, demo, etc.

• Providing estimate of test efforts in every sprint planning meeting.

• Providing progress feedback in daily stand-up meeting.

• Providing in business sign off meeting.

• Checking the quality and accuracy of all testing executed by the QA team.

• Support ways of work initiatives.

• Support knowledge sharing initiatives.

• Conduct test case design reviews and sign off.

• Conduct test case execution review and sign off.

• Assist in resolving QA technical issues. 

• Support environment alignment efforts 3rd party integration team.

• Support and maintain test process improvement initiatives.

• Support and maintain test tools and frameworks.

• Report on test progress to Stakeholders (Exco, PMS, Delivery team).

• Engage QAs in ways of work discussion (WoW).

• Encourage and apply QA best practices.

• Assist Junior Testers in estimating work effort in backlog and planning.

What will make you successful in this role?

Desired Skills Set

• At least 5 years' of professional experience as a Senior Test Analyst

• At least 3 years' experience in the Financial Services Industry working in Technology

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent qualification

• ISTQB certification Test Analyst / Advanced Test Analyst Level (desired)

• Experience in the following:

  • as a technical test analyst role on several large project within financial services (desired)

  • analysing complex system requirements

  • writing and analysing SQL queries

  • Testing Apis, microServices

  • working with SOAP UI and PostMan tools

  • testing across different browser and operating systems

  • working with QC / ALM

  • working with agile team tools such as JIRA and confluence

• Ability to do the following: 

  • working within a team following different development methodologies, e.g. Waterfall, agile, KanBan

  • understanding and support the test strategy 

  • identify and influence process improvement opportunities

  • handle multiple tasks simultaneously

  • work in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision

  • supervise and guide Junior Test Analysts

Behavioural Competencies 

• Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on company's success

• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills

• Attention to detail

• Team player

• Good time management skills

• Great interpersonal and communication skills

• Results driven

• Flexible (able to adapt to change)

Qualification and Experience

• Degree with 5 years related experience.

Knowledge and Skills

• Regression testing and scripts
• System testing, analysis and reviews
• Business Requirements
• Logs and tracks and resolves defects

Personal Attributes

• Interpersonal savvy - Contributing independently
• Decision quality - Contributing independently
• Plans and aligns - Contributing independently
• Optimises work processes - Contributing independently

Build a successful career with us

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping  our employees to realise their worth. Through its four business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies

• Cultivates innovation - Contributing independently
• Customer focus - Contributing independently
• Drives results - Contributing independently
• Collaborates - Contributing independently
• Being resilient - Contributing independently

Turnaround time

The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers. 

Our commitment to transformation

The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensure a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa.  The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.