What will you do?

This is a 12-month contract position allowing the incumbent to gain relevant work experience in the financial services industry. This role has the primary responsibility to plan, structure and undertake business- and system testing processes. It will also undertake application testing within the SanPay Intermediary application and integration testing with other systems. This role works closely with other Business Analysts, System Analysts, IT development and Audit to ensure business requirements for new solutions/changes are met and implemented correctly.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Identify, define, and design new functionality and regressive test requirements
• Perform test scheduling and execution (manually/automated)
• Identify and create test data
• Perform test case preparations and design, assist with the scripting of automated test cases, conditions, and checkpoints
• Develop test scenarios, including preparing test scripts to test each software component and demonstrate the business condition under test and the expected results
• Perform test reporting based upon coverage and clearance statistics
• Perform test documentation compilation
• Identify and analyse defects, log defects and track defect resolution within release time frames
• Risk identification and reporting
• Perform scope and test effort estimations
• Extract information, as requested by clients, from different data basis
• Liaison with Development Team, System Analyst, Business Analysts as well as Middle Management/Project Management on errors, issues, and risks
• Assistant with user acceptance testing
• Support and assistance with SanlamConnect Finance, DRPA, MIS, DRS & Source System(s),
• Trend analysis of incidents and proposals to Senior Business Analyst to eliminate problem areas

Qualification and Experience

• Grade 12 or equivalent qualification
• A relevant business-related Diploma or Degree
• A relevant testing related qualification will be advantageous
• Successful candidate should be unemployed
• Preferably no or very limited previous working experience

Knowledge and Skills

Testing Knowledge and Tools

• Working knowledge of Software Quality assurance
• MS: Office (Excel, PP, Word, Outlook)
• Microsoft SQL server management studio – ability to write SQL queries and understand the data

Testing Processes

• Knowledge of Systems Testing
• Remuneration and financial systems and processes/policies (basic)

System Knowledge

• Working knowledge of software engineering best practices and frameworks
• Understanding of system architectures (i.e.: Web based architecture)
• Remuneration systems (advantages)
• Workflows
• XML
• Rules Engines
• Databases

Personal Attributes

• Conceptual and analytical thinking abilities
• Quality and accuracy orientation
• High adherence to work standards
• Structured, organised, and good planning
• Able to work with data complexity
• High energy levels and action orientation
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• High regard for continuous improvement, growth, and self-development

Core Competencies

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.

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 five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

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