Role: Business Analyst (with strong testing exposure)
Type: Independent Contract
Start: November 2025 (6 months, with potential to extend)
Location: Remote, anywhere in South Africa, delivering to a European client
Summary
We’re adding two BAs to support a busy test organisation delivering digital banking capabilities. The BA(s) will free up senior test analysts and automation engineers by owning requirements, documentation, and test readiness across several workstreams. Ideal for a BA with hands-on testing experience or a senior test analyst with a BA background, specifically with a digital banking industry exposure. You’ll work across testing function, embedded with within various squads, collaboration with both BAU and a parallel project stream. You will have close interaction with automation/manual testers daily.
What you’ll do
- Lead requirements elicitation, clarification and documentation for testable acceptance criteria.
- Produce and maintain clear, structured test artefacts: test cases, scenarios, feature files, traceability.
- Make recommendations, unblock decisions, ensure the team is ready for execution.
- Partner with TAs and automation engineers to align manual and automated coverage.
- Participate in reviews where requirements/test impacts are relevant.
- Manage stakeholders, keeping scope, risk and dependencies visible.
- Drive continuous improvement of BA/test processes in a multi-team setup.
What you’ll bring
- At least 5–6+ years in BA and/or software testing roles within fintech/digital banking.
- Proven hybrid BA testing capability (either BA with strong testing, or tester with strong BA fundamentals).
- Solid grasp of test design, Gherkin/feature files, and how automation frameworks consume requirements.
- Comfort working around pull requests and collaborating with engineers (Git literacy a plus).
- Experience across payments, accounts, or access control is highly advantageous.
- Self-starter who brings structure when others are execution-focused; able to own outcomes.
- Communication and documentation excellence: concise, unambiguous, and client-ready.
Soft skills
- Confidence and ownership, with the gravitas to hold the line on test readiness.
- Pragmatic, delivery-centred, and comfortable in a hybrid BA/test remit.
- Collaborative, clear communicator across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Why this role exists
Current testers are being pulled into documentation and readiness tasks that should sit with a BA. You’ll take back that space, enabling the test team to focus on execution and automation while you ensure clarity, traceability and readiness.
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