Test Analyst

The Road Accident Fund’s mission is to provide appropriate cover to all road users within the borders of South Africa; to rehabilitate and compensate persons injured as a result of motor vehicle accidents in a timely and caring manner; and to actively promote safe use of our roads.

Purpose of the Job: Reporting to the Manager: Quality Assurance, the successful incumbent is accountable for ensuring adherence to standards of all applications/systems developed by testing them for functionality and technical defects.

Key Performance Areas

Review of business requirements and system test

• Implement and maintain a testing strategy and testing process.
• Interpret test, specification test cases, and bugs defects.

Test planning

• Collaborate closely with application development team to plan for system testing.
• Test requirements gathering and analysis.
• Prepare test plan and get it approved.
• Test environment in association with the application development team.
• Document test results and get them approved.

Test case design and test execution

• Maintain Design clear, concise, and executable test cases based on the functional document, ensuring traceability to requirements, which includes positive, negative, boundary, and edge cases as follows:

• Identify what to test.
• Determine the prerequisites.
• Determine the test criteria.
• Record the expected test result.

• Ensure that testing procedures and practices align with data privacy regulations (e.g., POPIA) and internal security policies.
• Perform a shakeout on a built test environment.
• Perform the actual testing as per the testing process and methodology
• Identify, log, track, and manage defects using designated defect management tools.
• Conduct various testing types, including functional, regression, integration, usability, user acceptance testing (UAT) support, and basic performance/security testing.
• Participate in the design, execution, and maintenance of automated test scripts for solutions.

Reporting

• Provide clear and concise reports on testing activities and outcomes.
• Report regularly and periodically perform necessary submissions as and when required to provide progress updates and/or inform management of decisions.
• Compile reports on test coverage, execution results, and defects.

Stakeholder Management

• Provide timely feedback and support during sprints and deployments.
• Work closely with the applications development teams to resolve identified defects in a timely manner.
• Handle inquiries and requests for information from both internal and
• external stakeholders.
• Act as a key liaison between technical and business teams, facilitating effective communication regarding quality, defects, and testing progress.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree/Advanced Diploma in Information Technology related qualification.
• Relevant 4 years’ experience in IT and Application Testing environment.
• Experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Appium, Playwright, QTP/UFT) will be an added advantage.
• Experience in testing APIs and using tools like Postman or SoapUI will be an added advantage.
• Experience in testing Mobile and/or Power Platform apps will be an added advantage.

Technical and Behavioral Competencies Required  

• Planning, organisation and coordinating.
• Personal Mastery
• Judgment and Decision Making
• Ethics and Values
• Client Service Orientation
• Knowledge of software testing methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Proficiency in designing and executing test plans and test cases.
• Knowledge of SQL for data validation.
• Familiarity with test management and defect tracking tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, JIRA, TestRail).
• Knowledge of automated testing tools e.g. Selenium, Appium, Playwright, QTP/UFT.
• Ability to translate requirements into test cases/scenarios.

NB: “RAF offers Total Employment Cost packages with no additional contributions from the Employer, successful candidates are required to structure their packages in a manner that will suit their needs”.

The Road Accident Fund subscribes to the principles of employment equity and preference will be given to People with Disabilities.

Applicants who have not received any correspondence from us within six weeks from the closing date can consider themselves unsuccessful

Security Vetting shall be conducted on all prospective employees

It is the applicants’ responsibility to have foreign qualification evaluated by the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) and to provide proof of such evaluation.