Software Development Engineer in Test (Java)

This is a 12-month renewable contract with one of South Africa's largest banking institutions .
The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring products are stable, reliable and production-ready by working closely with QA Leads, Developers and Portfolio teams throughout the software development lifecycle. The role requires someone who is equally comfortable with software development and test automation.
Key Responsibilities
Review and analyse business requirements, user stories and architecture diagrams.
Gain product and business understanding and apply it to testing activities to improve coverage and identify defects.
Develop and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases and capture supporting test evidence.
Perform end-to-end testing across enhancements and impacted systems.
Analyse impacted areas and enhance manual and automated regression packs.
Prepare and manage test data for both manual and automated testing.
Follow established QA...