Test Automation Specialist

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We’ve learned that employee happiness requires more than a competitive paycheck, and our employee value proposition—grow, own, achieve, learn (GOAL)—lays out the core opportunities we seek to foster for every employee. Teamwork and collaboration are critical to Zensar’s mission and success, and our teams work on a diverse and challenging mix of technologies across a broad industry spectrum. These industries include banking and financial services, high-tech and manufacturing, healthcare, insurance, retail, and consumer services.

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Zensar Technologies is looking for Automation Tester in Johannesburg

Seeking a highly skilled Senior QA Engineer to join the Core Banking Team based in Sandton.

The Senior QA Engineer – Core Banking is responsible for ensuring quality across the Finacle Core Banking platform and its integrations with channels, data platforms, APIs and downstream systems. The role drives an automation-first approach, combining effective manual and automated testing throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Working closely with the Global QA Lead and cross-functional delivery teams, the role provides technical leadership across test strategy, automation, CI/CD and quality engineering practices, while mentoring team members and driving continuous improvement across the Core Banking testing capability.

• Own testing activities across project and BAU initiatives from planning through to release.
• Design and execute risk-based test strategies covering functional, integration, API, regression, end-to-end and UAT testing.
• Design, develop and maintain scalable automated test frameworks and regression suites.
• Build and execute automated tests using xUnit, NUnit and C#/.NET and Playwright
• Perform API testing using Postman/Bruno and validate data using SQL and Azure Cosmos DB where required.
• Integrate automated testing into Azure Dev Ops CI/CD pipelines and support continuous testing practices.
• Analyse requirements to ensure complete business and technical test coverage.
• Manage defects through to resolution and contribute to root cause analysis and quality improvements.
• Lead and execute testing for integrations, data migrations and data validation across Core Banking systems.
• Mentor junior QA engineers and promote quality engineering best practices across the team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the Agile delivery lifecycle.

• 6 + years’ experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance.
• 5 + years’ experience in Test Automation.
• Strong experience with:
• xUnit / NUnit
• C#/.NET
• REST API testing
• Postman or Bruno
• SQL and Azure Cosmos DB
• Azure Dev Ops and Azure Pipelines
• Strong understanding of STLC, SDLC and Agile delivery methodologies.
• Experience implementing automated testing within CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience testing Core Banking or Financial Services platforms.
• Finacle experience is highly desirable
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