SAS AML Testing Support Specialist Full Time NEW

Our client is seeking an experienced SAS AML Testing Support Specialist to ensure the quality, accuracy, and reliability of its Anti-Money Laundering (AML) platform. This office-based contract opportunity is ideal for a technical testing professional with strong automation, SAS, and SQL skills who can validate complex data flows and support reliable financial crime detection.

Key Responsibilities
• Design, develop, and maintain automated testing frameworks for SAS AML, covering user interfaces, APIs, and back-end data.
• Create and execute automated test scripts to validate AML scenarios, rules, data transformations, and end-to-end alert generation.
• Perform source-to-target data validation, ensuring data integrity, lineage, and accuracy across system interfaces.
• Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD.
• Conduct regression, performance, load, and stress testing to identify defects and prevent deployment issues.
• Analyse test results, document defects, and report quality metrics using tools such as JIRA.
• Collaborate with SAS developers, business analysts, and compliance teams to translate specifications into test plans and cases.
• Maintain test documentation, support code reviews, and contribute to continuous quality improvement.

Minimum Requirements
• At least five years of SAS AML experience.
• Expert-level SQL skills, including complex joins, subqueries, views, stored procedures, functions, and data comparison techniques.
• Hands-on experience with SAS AML scenario management, case management workflows, and AML data models.
• Strong automation testing experience using Selenium, Cypress, TestComplete, or similar tools.
• Proficiency in Python or Java for test scripting, with knowledge of shell scripting in Unix/Linux environments.
• Experience with SAS programming, including Base SAS, SAS Macro, SAS/SQL, and preferably PROC COMPARE.
• Experience with relational databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL, or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks such as PyTest, JUnit, TestNG, or Cucumber/Gherkin.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control, and defect management tools.

Advantageous
• A relevant degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• ISTQB certification, particularly in test automation, or relevant SAS certifications.
• Experience with API testing tools such as Postman or REST-assured.
• Knowledge of SAS Viya, SAS Grid, ETL tools, and cloud platforms.
• CAMS or ICA financial crime compliance certification.
• Familiarity with Git, JIRA, Confluence, XML/JSON, and data visualisation tools.

Work Conditions
• Office-based contract position.
• Overtime may be required to meet project deadlines.
• Occasional travel may be required for stakeholder or client engagements.

If you would like to apply for this position, please send transcripts with applications.

Should you meet the requirements for this position, please email your updated CV attached to it.jobs@tumaini.co.za, alternatively contact 031 350 4018 or visit our website, www.tumaini.co Correspondence will only be conducted with short listed candidates. Should you not hear from us within 3 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.