Test Analyst position is available with a very well established company in the Cape Town area. The client is looking for a customer focused individual who is a lateral thinker and pays attention to the finer details.

Responsibilities:
• Compile test suites and procedures to cover functional, navigational, regression, integration and stress testing
• Review specifications, extract business rules, compile test plans
• Generate test cases according to the needs and complexity of web based applications and websites
• Liaise with product owners, scrum masters, business analysts, developers and quality assurance during product development and testing phases, through to production and maintenance
• Generate accurate and comprehensive test reports for presentation to business
• Ensure that all testing documentation and wiki repository remains current
• Utilise defect tracking mechanisms and drive issues with relevant parties
• Keep abreast of emerging software testing methodologies and practices
• Contribute to process improvement strategy and the driving of implementation
• Actively communicate user experience (UX) improvement recommendations to the team, steering the organisation towards market fit
• Knowledge and exposure to web testing automation frameworks and web service testing is advantageous

Qualifications and Experience:
• Bachelor Degree or National Diploma preferred in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems or similar
• Software Testing certification
• UX, usability, human computer interaction or similar certification an advantage
• QA best practice
• Understanding of web hosting platforms
• Agile development methodology and scrum
• SQL and XML experience
• Cross-browser challenges on both PC and Mac
• Understanding of web-based social network concepts and functionality
• Minimum two years’ experience with web and cross-browser testing
• Software development background an advantage
• Cross platform application testing (iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, PC, Mac an advantage)