Job Description

Brief description

The main purpose of this position is to take responsibility for the design, development and execution of test strategies, test plans, test cases and defects management to verify verify software conformance to the defined acceptance criteria (i.e. system behaviours) and feature design documents as well as application standards to ensure the delivery of quality solutions for the South African Reserve Bank.

Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:


Conduct functional, non-functional, integration, system integration, regression and user acceptance testing. Analyse business requirements and perform gap analyses to ensure comprehensive testing is done. Compile test strategies, plans and test cases (including test estimation) to ensure a structured approach during testing. Evaluate, plan, design, develop and deploy testing techniques for new solutions, products, applications and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout the development life cycles. Manage defects and improve the quality of testing through early defect detection. Keep abreast of developments in information and communications technology trends, specifically within the infrastructure-testing arena to develop and design the most appropriate test approaches and solutions. Develop progress and quality reports (encapsulating test results and statistics) to support the final approval for implementation of the solution. Compile user manuals and conduct training to support the utilisation of the solution * Engage with the internal and external user community to ensure that business benefits are realised.