Onsite Test Analyst
Summary
A Test Analyst role in Johannesburg planning, designing and executing testing across finance and actuarial systems for a financial services and insurance client, covering functional, integration, SIT and UAT. Core tools include SQL, Postman/SoapUI/REST Assured, Selenium/Playwright/Tosca/Cypress, and Jira/Azure DevOps/ALM.
Our client, a leading financial services and insurance group, requires a Test Analyst to plan, design and execute testing across finance and actuarial systems. Reporting into the Head: Centre IT via the Test Manager, you will own test coverage from functional and integration testing through to System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) support, providing the quality assurance that underpins confident go-live decisions.
Key focus areas: risk-based test planning, test design with full requirements traceability, validation of financial calculations and reporting output, automation of regression suites, defect management, and UAT coordination with business users.
Requirements
- 5+ years in software testing or QA, with 3+ years testing finance systems in insurance or financial services
- Proven test design and execution for ERP finance implementations and system integrations
- Hands-on data validation using SQL, including source-to-target reconciliation
- API and message-based interface testing using Postman, SoapUI or REST Assured
- Test automation with Selenium, Playwright, Tosca, Cypress or comparable frameworks
- Test management and defect tracking in Jira (Xray/Zephyr), Azure DevOps or Micro Focus ALM
- Experience leading or supporting UAT and SIT with business stakeholders
- Strong understanding of finance processes, accounting principles and financial reporting
- High attention to detail and strong documentation skills
- Agile and Waterfall methodologies