Test Analyst (Senior)
First seen by Alion on Nov 13, 2026. Discovery scores A on the Alion truth index.
Discovery Life: Core A360 Team
Test Analyst (Senior)
About Discovery
Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.
About Discovery Life
Discovery Life is an ever growing fast-paced and dynamic environment that provides innovative risk assurance to individual clients. This environment thrives on customer engagement and customer experience as well as mutually beneficial relationships with our brokers and other stakeholders. It is important for our employees to provide a world class service to our internal and external clients, thereby ensuring long and sustainable relationships.
Key Purpose
To ensure the Quality of our systems, by enforcing the appropriate test strategy and ensuring that the completed software meets the established standards, is fit for purpose and delivered without defects.
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
- Writing and executing test cases against stories, creating and maintaining tests in line with agreed testing standards and practices
- Documenting defects and making these visible to the teams and the Product Owner
- Providing feedback on user stories from a quality point of view and promoting bug prevention strategies, testability, accessibility and other QA concepts
- Collaborating with other testers, BAs, developers, designers and other experts across the business to deliver business and customer value
- Being proactively involved in the end-to-end lifecycle of digital features including code reviews, user stories grooming, requirements understanding
- Actively participating in all relevant Agile ceremonies and cadences
Personal Attributes and Skills
- Experience with: Cucumber, API Testing, Selenium WebDriver, Continuous Integration & Performance testing
- Excellent working knowledge of test methodologies, writing test plans, creating test cases and debugging
- Extensive technical understanding across the digital domain
- A thorough understanding of testing/QA best practices
- Experience working in large, complex organisations
- Demonstrated experience in successfully contributing to development teams in an Agile/Scrum environment
- Understanding of common software failures and faults
- Knowledge of the domain (highly desirable)
- Knowledge of the system or application-under-test (highly desirable)
- Experience in a variety of testing efforts (desirable)
Education and Experience
- Matric
- IT Diploma or other relevant degree from an accredited institution
- At least 5+ years’ experience in manual testing
- ISTQB Foundation Level Certificate
Advantageous
- Diploma or University Degree in IT/Software or technical discipline such as Computer science
- 1 – 2 years in automation experience
Methodologies
- Agile
Tools
- Continuous Integration
- Jira
- Confluence
- Quality Centre
- Postman and SoapUI
EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.