Test Analyst II | Retail IT | Core (Flex)
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Job Summary
Allan Gray Retail IT consists of over 150 people who have a wide range of skills and responsibilities. One of the skills we take pride in, is software testing. Retail IT has a passionate testing community, which includes QA Architects, Test Leads, Managers, and mentors that work together with the Test Analysts to innovate, build testing frameworks, and help make our software delivery cycle more efficient so that we deliver good quality software timeously.
We believe our Test Analysts play a vital role not just in ensuring the quality of the software we develop, but in making it better, all the way from backend to frontend.
As a Test Analyst in our team, you will play a critical role in the design of our software to ensure it is developed with quality in mind from the very beginning and solving the many complex challenges along the way, using some of the industry’s latest technologies. Technical testing is a key part of what we do, so we expect our Test Analysts to have a strong technical background to help design, develop, and support the systems that enable us to deliver world class software rapidly.
Our ideal candidate is very detail oriented, experienced, passionate, innovative, self-driven, curious, is a critical thinker, and willing to both learn and share knowledge. Our space will provide the chosen candidate plenty of opportunities to learn about the asset management industry and our technologies, give space for creativity, and an opportunity to provide tremendous value.
Job Responsibilities
- Take ownership of testing activities within your team across the SDLC.
- Apply and promote best testing practices within the team.
- Participate in defining the testing approach for each sprint:
- Work closely with Business Analysts to derive clear, testable user stories.
- Collaborate closely with Developers, in identifying, logging, prioritizing, and verifying defects.
- Contribute meaningfully to team ceremonies and quality discussions.
- Estimate testing effort and manage expectations around scope, risks, and timelines.
- Manage and maintain test data.
- Contribute to manual and automated tests in-sprint.
- Actively contribute to increasing measurable manual and automation coverage at all levels.
- Maintain existing test packs.
- Document and execute manual tests.
- Create, debug, verify, and maintain automated scripts.
- Review others' Merge requests.
- Keep pipelines healthy and current.
- Report on test execution, risks, and issues.
- Debug test results.
- Follow and drive root cause analysis to prevent future defects, both in Prod and In-sprint.
- Contribute to the use of available tools and technology.
- Implement quality improvement initiatives (supported by Senior testing leadership).
- Actively manage risk.
- Provide first- and second-line support for production issues when required.
Competencies
Good knowledge of investment administration systems and processes, including investor accounts, investments, withdrawals, switches, fees, standing instructions, holdings and balances
Strong Oracle SQL skills for data validation, reconciliation and defect investigation
Experience testing batch processes and End-of-Day workflows
Experience testing user interfaces and end-to-end business processes
Experience testing SOAP and REST web services
The ability to investigate problems across applications, services, databases and connected systems
Experience testing changes delivered by an outsourced development team
Strong test planning, defect management, test evidence and release reporting skills
Strongly advantageous
The following experience would be beneficial:
Experience with Flexcube or a similar investment administration system
Testing Oracle stored procedures and scheduled jobs
Designing reconciliation queries and reusable validation scripts
Testing events, message queues and asynchronous processing
Test automation and CI pipelines
WireMock or similar service-mocking tools
Working with Scala, Go, Jest or Docker-based applications
Location
Cape Town
Closing date
16 November 2026