System Analyst jobs

Brief description

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

Detailed description

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

• Conduct functional, integration, usability, configuration, installation, system, regression, performance, user acceptance and operations readiness testing.
• Perform gap analyses and analyse business requirements to ensure comprehensive testing can be done.
• Create test strategies, approaches and test cases, including test estimation, to maintain a structured approach during testing.
• Plan, design, develop and deploy testing techniques for new solutions, products, applications and enhancements to existing applications throughout their development life cycles.
• Stay updated with advancements in information and communications technology trends, specifically within the testing field, to design and develop the most appropriate test approaches and solutions.
• Generate progress and quality reports that include test results and statistics to support the final approval for solution implementation.
• Assist in creating user manuals.
• Engage with internal and external user communities to ensure that business benefits are realised.