We’re looking for a Technical Test Analyst to join our Cape Town based team and work closely with the business analysts, developers, and project managers in different delivery streams.

This will be for a contract role where the successful person can start soonest.

What you’ll do:

• 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 updating test cases to meet the business functional requirements.
• Reviewing and signing off test cases design and execution packs.
• Identifying, maintaining and flag 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, manage, resolve, and report on bugs/defects
• Participating in all scrum ceremonies such as backlog grooming, sprint planning, retros, etc.
• Providing estimate of test efforts in every sprint planning meeting
• Providing progress feedback in daily stand-up meetings
• Capturing time and effort spent on allocated tasks daily and providing monthly timesheets
• Participating in business sign-off meetings
• Following QA standards and best practices to ensure the highest level of quality
• Knowledge sharing with other team members
• Supporting and maintaining test tools and frameworks
• Reporting on test progress to managers and delivery team

Your expertise:

• High intermediate – Senior/ 5+ years of experience
• Comfortable working in the following methodologies: Waterfall, Agile and Kanban
• Experience with Azure DevOps
• Experience working with databases and writing own SQL queries (intermediate level)
• Experience in Testing APIs and microservices using Postman, Swagger or SoapUI
• Mobile Testing (beneficial)
• Experience testing on multiple browsers using web simulators
• Understanding of test automation principles
• Understanding of structured test methods and processes
• Experience working in both Black Box and White Box Testing
• Knowledge of the Collective Investment Scheme domain (desired)

Qualifications:

• Matric
• Relevant IT/ Testing Qualification
• ISTQB

Other information applicable to the opportunity:

• The contract will go up to July 2026
• Location: Cape Town (4 days onsite)
• We require someone who can start soonest/ immediately