Test Analyst
Blue Desk Recruitment · Cape Town
Job description
About the role
The Test Analyst will play a critical role in ensuring software quality across the full stack, from backend services to frontend applications, within an asset‑management environment. You will join a 150‑person IT department and bring 5‑7 years of testing experience to help deliver reliable, high‑quality releases.
Key responsibilities
- Own testing activities throughout the SDLC and promote best testing practices.
- Define testing approaches for each sprint and collaborate with Business Analysts to create clear, testable user stories.
- Work closely with developers to log, prioritize, and verify defects.
- Estimate testing effort, manage scope, risks, and timelines.
- Maintain test data, manual test packs, and contribute to both manual and automated in‑sprint tests.
- Create, debug, verify, and maintain automated test scripts; review merge requests and keep CI pipelines healthy.
- Report on test execution, risks, and issues; drive root‑cause analysis for production and in‑sprint defects.
- Provide first‑ and second‑line support for production issues when required.
Required profile
- Strong analytical thinking with the ability to break down complex problems into clear test artifacts.
- Proven experience in API testing and understanding of microservice architecture.
- Ability to read and write SQL, test databases, reports, and applications.
- Practical knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and when automation adds value.
- Experience balancing manual and automated testing approaches.
- Ability to work under pressure, manage competing priorities, and quickly learn new technologies.
Required skills
- API testing
- Microservice architecture
- SQL
- CI/CD
- Test automation (unit, integration, acceptance, end‑to‑end)
- JavaScript
- Scripting languages
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Blue Desk Recruitment
Cape Town