Tester

An investment and wealth management company is seeking a Tester to join its team, based in either Cape Town or Bryanston. Operating in a regulated financial services environment, the company requires a detail-oriented, independent-minded testing professional to take accountability for the quality and completeness of testing across assigned features and releases. 

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.

Reporting: 

• 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.

Quality Governance: 

• 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.) 

Data Protection and Compliance: 

• 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.

Team and Process Contribution: 

• 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.

Accountability: 

• 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.

Knowledge: 

• 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 itcareers@hireresolve.za.com