RS Recruitment Services is assisting a rapidly expanding SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT company (Short term Insurance arena), to recruit a LEAD TEST ANALYST to be based in their offices near SANDTON, JHB.

Purpose of the position: Support and conduct System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Pre-and Post-Production activities and other deliverables, along with other project management tasks as needed to ensure the quality of delivery of changes going into the production environment.

Applicants should be/have:
Automation Tool – HP UFT required
Preferred: ISTQB foundation level certification or equivalent
Minimum 3 years’ experience in testing environment or ISTQB foundation level certification or equivalent
UFT (HP Unified Functional Testing) is a requirement
IT experience within short term insurance field
Initiative/Innovation - Innovative approach to the testing of integrated products, systems and processes.
Testing Process Design - understands, and can employ different test processes to meet the individual requirements
of the Project Directors.
Able to work extended hours, when necessary

Responsibilities:
• Responsible for Environment readiness (SIT, UAT, Prod).
• Designs the test plan, test cases and test scenario's based on business and technical specifications.
• End to end System testing, including negative, regression and business case testing.
• Ensure internal as well as external users have access to all applications on all environments and the necessary roles and rights have been given.
• Daily execution meetings with BA's to review daily status and confirm next steps / actions.
• Identify gaps/risks/issues, and manages SIT and UAT testing from beginning to end.
• Must be able to spot issues and risks ahead of time, to plan and avoid issues, rather than reacting to them.
• Communication with Business Leads and UAT Test Lead on Test Case content.
• Liaising and consulting with 3rd parties on testing requirements, schedules and approach.
• Responsible for accepting any development changes into the SIT, UAT and Production phase of the project.
• Provide detailed status reports to the Project Manager, Business or 3rd Party tracking progress, actively managing any risks/issues arising from within the test team that requires escalation to achieve satisfactory outcome.

Remuneration:
Market related, depending on experience and qualifications

Please, only apply if you meet all the criteria for this position.
• Send your CV in MS Word format including at least three recent contactable references, including names, surnames, positions, land line and cell numbers and most important, their e-mail addresses.
• Complete a screening questionnaire which may be sent to you.

If you have not been contacted within 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.