Senior Test Analyst at Inspired Testing

Senior Test Analyst

Location: South Africa / Remote

Full-time

About Us:

Inspired Testing is a leading, innovative, and forward-thinking Quality Engineering and Software Testing consultancy. Our teams of exceptional consultants and engineers provide solutions that help our customers deliver quality software faster, more effectively, and more frequently. Our brand is trusted and highly respected globally, and we are looking for experienced Senior Test Analysts who are inspired and motivated by the prospect of being part of our growth story.

The Team:

We're at an exciting point where there's ample opportunity to make a big impact in scaling the people, processes, and technology in service of that mission. Our team’s strength is its diversity, acceptance of new ideas, and new ways to look at old challenges. We know humans are not one-dimensional, and we celebrate the uniqueness everyone brings to the problems we solve and the culture we create.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Understanding requirements and creating key test deliverables such as test cases, test scenarios, automated test suites, etc

• Test estimation, scheduling, requirements traceability, execution and reporting results to various audiences

• Attending daily stand-up meetings to maximise test effectiveness particularly during execution phase

• Identifying test data, regression testing scope and coverage

• Defect identification, reporting and ownership through to resolution

• Adherence to the software development life-cycle (SDLC), testing standards and best practices

• Establishing close working relationships with developers, scrum team and also business users

• Functional E2E/UAT testing require interactions with other departments/vendors to ensure correct project solution delivery

Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience of testing within an Agile framework including user stories, BDD, Scrum, sprint planning, retro, etc

• Strong technical manual testing experience with APIs using Postman

• Experience working with JSON and XML data formats

• Experience in reading and understanding technical flow diagrams - UML, ERD, etc

• Experience with automation testing technologies and principles: Selenium Webdriver, IntelliJ IDE, Cucumber, Maven, OOP Design & Patterns

• Experience with .NET framework tooling - NUnit, RestSharp, Reqnroll

• Proficiency in C# programming language

• Experience with version control systems - Git

• Familiarity with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines

• Knowledge of database querying and SQL

• Formal testing experience in a distributed working environment

• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills

• A team player but also able to work independently using your initiative

• Have strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Have excellent time management and the ability to work to deadlines

• Experience of working in the Financial sector - specifically in Insurance domain