Xpert: Business Analyst (QA focus)

Role: Business Analyst (with strong testing exposure)

Type: Independent Contract

Start: Immediate (6 months, with potential to extend or become perm)

Location: Anywhere in SA (BYOD) Fully remote

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. 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 with strong exposure to Quality Assurance.
• 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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