Tester
First seen by Alion on Nov 9, 2026.
Overview:
The successful candidate will own and maintain the regression suite, produce auditable test evidence and traceability for every release, and provide an independent quality view — including the confidence to raise release risk clearly and on record, even under delivery pressure. Working within an Agile / Scrum delivery environment, the Tester will collaborate closely with Business Analysts, developers, the Project Manager and business users, and will play a key role in safeguarding data protection and POPIA compliance throughout the testing lifecycle.
Responsibilities:
Perform smoke and sanity testing after each deployment to test and staging environments.
Prepare and maintain test data, using de-identified or synthetic data only; live client data is not used in non-production environments.
Design and write test cases from written functional specifications.
Own and execute the regression suite across multiple consecutive releases.
Conduct exploratory testing to find defects outside the scripted path.
Build and maintain automated checks for stable, high-value regression scenarios under the guidance of the CTO, as this capability develops.
Support User Acceptance Testing: prepare the environment and data, guide business users, and triage, record and track their feedback.
Support the Business Analysts by giving early feedback on the testability of specifications.
Produce a test summary and release evidence pack for each release, showing what was tested, what passed, what failed and what remains open.
Maintain accurate and auditable test records — traceability from requirement, to test case, to result, to defect, for every release.
Keep test documentation, standards and process notes current.
Capture evidence (screenshots, logs and step records) fit for an audit trail.
Provide an independent quality view: raise release risk clearly and on record, including under delivery pressure, and do not sign off on evidence that has not been produced.
Escalate defects carrying regulatory, financial-calculation, permission or client-data exposure immediately to the Chief Technology Officer and Project Manager, rather than logging them through the routine queue.
Recommend whether testing supports release readiness and withhold test sign-off where agreed exit criteria have not been met. (Final production-release approval remains subject to the approved release governance process.)
Handle all data encountered during testing confidentially and in line with company data protection policy and POPIA obligations.
Report any exposure of personal information in a non-production environment.
Participate in sprint planning, refinement, daily stand-ups and retrospectives, and provide test effort estimates for stories.
Contribute to the improvement of test process, standards, tooling and estimation within the team.
Commit to continuous learning — certification, domain knowledge and automation capability.
Accountable for the adequacy and completeness of test coverage for assigned features and releases.
Accountable for the integrity, currency and reliability of the regression suite.
Accountable for accurate and auditable test records.
Requirements:
Matric / National Senior Certificate.
Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science or similar.
ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level — preferred; where not already held, to be obtained within 12 months of appointment.
ISTQB Agile Tester extension, or a formal SQL or test automation certification — advantageous.
5 years' hands-on software testing experience within a structured software development lifecycle.
Demonstrable experience designing and writing test cases from written functional specifications.
Experience owning and executing a regression suite across multiple consecutive releases.
Practical experience with a formal test management and defect tracking tool.
Working SQL experience — SELECT statements, joins, filtering and aggregate queries — for independent data verification.
API testing experience using Postman or a comparable REST client.
Experience testing in an Agile / Scrum delivery environment.
Experience in financial services — investment, wealth or insurance platforms — strongly advantageous.
Exposure to test automation tooling (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress or similar) — advantageous; not a requirement at appointment.
Software testing fundamentals: test levels, test types, and test design techniques including equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis and decision tables.
Defect lifecycle management, including the distinction between severity and priority, and root cause categorization.
Software development lifecycle models and Agile / Scrum delivery practice.
Relational database concepts and SQL.
REST API concepts: HTTP verbs, status codes, request and response payloads, and authentication.
Test environment management, build and deployment basics, and version control concepts.
Working knowledge of POPIA obligations as they apply to personal information in test environments and test data.
Awareness of the regulated context in which the platform operates — FAIS and the financial advisory environment — and why auditable test evidence and traceability matter.
Basic understanding of investment products — unit trusts, transactions, fees and instructions — advantageous.
Competitive salary based on experience (Negotiable based in experience)
If you are interested in the above position, and want to make a career-changing move, apply today by emailing your CV to [email protected]
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