IT Test Analyst at Stanbic IBTC

Job purpose
• System testing of projects and code. Production of test strategies, test plans, defect tracking, requirements capture and analysis to agreed deadlines.
• Responsible for completing and maintaining up-to-date, high quality test strategies, test plans and scripts to agreed deadlines.
• Adopts a flexible approach to completing workload to ensure delivery within agreed timeframes.
• Plans and estimates project activities with team leader

Key responsibilities
•Establish test approach/plan for projects
•Establish acceptance criteria and schedule for test cycles (CIT, SIT, UAT)
•Establish testing team quality standards and quality assurance processes
•Establish best practices and processes for testing team
•Coordinate the testing efforts on key Bank Projects from Initiation through to Closure
•Establish standards and processes for Test Analysts and other test resources to manage their areas of responsibilities
•Influence overall technology, driving product quality, and promoting practices to improve productivity and enable quality
•Clearly communicating the unit’s goals and objectives to the test team
•Resource mobilization for Projects
•Manage delivery by metrics
•Publish KPIs for Testing Projects on weekly, or milestone, basis
•Submit inputs for Weekly Status Reports for IT Exco sessions
•Participate in Weekly Test team Review Meetings
•Coordinating Test Requirements Analysis
•Coordinating Test Case Development / Updating
•Coordinating Test Data preparation
•Coordinating Defect Analysis & Reporting
•Coordinating re-tests for Fixes
•Manage Direct Reports (Test Analysts etc.)
•Challenge the perception of testing
•Stay abreast of new technologies
•Stay abreast of new test methods and tools
•Ensure efficient use of HP Quality Center

Key Performance Indicators
• Timely/Successful testing of delivered corebanking patches (customization and product)
• Development of Quality test cases for all solution
• Zero/Minimal rollback of Tested solutions.
• Effective management of defect picked during testing.