Reference Number HOL241018-1
Job Title Test Analyst
Business Unit Hollard Life Solutions
Department Business Enablement
Job Family IT
Job Type Classification Permanent
Reporting To Test Team Lead
Number of Positions 1
Location - Town / City Parktown
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Country South Africa
Job Advert Summary
Job Purpose
To provide quality assurance on IT development by ensuring that all software deployments are as per business requirement specifications.
Key Responsibilities
Test Planning and Design
- Review business and functional requirement specs
- Extract all testable requirements and identify issues in the specifications
- Create and maintain test cases and test data
- Establish/update the traceability between business requirements and test cases and procedures
- Contribute to the development of the testing processes and standards
- Execute the manual and automated tests
- Defect management
- Identify and log defects
- Follow up on all outstanding defects with developers
- Retest all resolved defects (both in projects and maintenance)
- Compile a test summary
- Assist in the user acceptance testing activity for projects and maintenance initiatives
- May be required to attend CAB meetings leading up to deployment to production.
- In conjunction with Business Analysts, provide support to learning area in the development and signoff of training material particularly on systems.
- May also be required to provide ongoing support to business in filtering queries raised and liaising with developers. This is also likely to include logging of defects for developers to attend to the issue raised
- Responsible for sanity testing in production post deployment to production
- Maintains awareness of best practices and industry standards
Required Knowledge and Experience
- Minimum of 2 years of Life Insurance experience.
- Attention to detail and high degree of accuracy
- Creative and analytical
- Good communication (written and verbal) skills
- Collaborative and excellent people skills
- Committed, flexible and reliable
- Proactive and innovative
- Ability to work independently and under pressure
- Exposure to and knowledge of SDLC
- Following instructions & procedures
- Coping with pressure and setbacks
- Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
- Deciding and initiating action
- Adhering to principles and values
- Analytical
- Researching
- Adapting and responding to change
- Capable of learning new systems quickly
- Liaising with business units for scheduling UAT testing
- Recognized certification e.g. ISEB, ISTQB advantageous.
Hollard is unapologetically committed to creating and enabling a workplace that values your diversity with a true sense of care, dignity and inclusion. We actively seek to hire for your different lived experiences (including, but not limited to disability, race, religion, ethnicity, culture, language and social origin , gender diversity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity). These grounds enhance cognitive diversity and psychological safety in our workplace for everyone.
We proudly promote the Hollard Way we work, which is a combination hybrid work environment at this time. We offer flexibility in our work as far as possible, dependent on the nature of the role. Even if you dont meet all our selection criteria, we encourage you to apply!
