Qa Engineer

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Job Description


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The Department:

Enterprise Risk Support owns a diverse set of products with multiple capabilities. To effectively support these products, our teams require a diverse set of software development skills and strong product knowledge geared for delivery.

We build market leading platforms and software to support out the box configuration of our brands and markets.

Be part of building a robust, and bespoke platform that supports loosely coupled off the shelf components that can be easily added, configured, or removed as required.

Purpose of the Role:

The QA Engineer will be responsible for the planning, development, and execution of automated technical test related activities for developed business applications, ensuring that they are effectively tested against agreed functional and non-functional requirements prior to, and postproduction deployment. This candidate will report to the Team Lead in the Risk Management space.

Duties include, but not limited to:

  • Review, analyse and identify test requirements based on the functional and design specifications from technical documentation (Business/Development briefs, Use Case Diagrams, Architectures and/or Integration Documents) and ensure full understanding of individual deliverables.
  • Working with Development & Product Teams to understand the requirements and prepare QA documents pertaining to planning, design, implementation, execution and exit reporting.
  • Proactively raise questions and seek resolution of outstanding clarifications required for testing.
  • Create, document and maintain test plan/cases around new and existing business requirements and technical specifications.
  • Execute and evaluate manual/automated test cases and report test results.
  • Potential writing of custom test solutions (automated scripts, test harnesses, SQL scripts etc.)
  • Hold and facilitate test plan/case reviews with Testing, Development & Product Teams.
  • Ensure that validated deliverables meet functional and design specifications and requirements.
  • Troubleshoot with development team to identify, replicate, verify and report defects.
  • Performance, Load & Stress testing.
  • Setup and maintain Automation for monitoring and regression
  • Perform regression and ad-hoc testing of system components potentially affected by system changes.
  • Actively participate in daily Scrum and project planning meetings.
  • Working together with QA Manager and Test Lead to ensure that testing needs for all supported projects are met in a timely manner and that all software products meet the quality levels set by Business.
  • Communicate with Product Owners and Product Support Analysts to ensure all Quality Assurance projects are managed, tracked and delivered to customer expectations with highest quality standards, within required timelines.
  • Provide Management with metrics, analysis, and other relevant reports regarding the quality of testing.
  • Identify any potential quality issues per defined process and escalate immediately to Management.
  • Create and maintain constant communication and healthy working relationships between Quality Assurance Development and Product Teams.
This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities. The job holder may be required to complete any other reasonable duties in order to achieve business objectives.

Essential Criteria:
  • Experience with contemporary automation testing tools.
  • Experience with designing, creating, and maintaining automation frameworks.
  • Experience with solving technical problems and the ability to translate technical requirements into test plans.
  • Demonstrates consistent behaviour aligned to the Organizational Culture.
Desirable Criteria:
  • Good general Development programming knowledge (preferably C#).
  • Good general IT knowledge.
  • Experience with Test Management Software and Processes.
  • Ability to find defects and bugs quickly.
  • Experience with both frontend and backend service testing (including API testing).
  • Experience with database testing (including validating stored procs).
  • SharePoint knowledge
  • Understanding of systems architecture (DB's, Servers, Networks etc.).
  • Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
  • Business process understanding
Person Specifications:
  • Accountability And Execution
  • Adaptability / Flexibility
  • Control And Efficiency
  • Decision Making
  • Initiative
  • Planning & Organising
  • Team Orientation
*Please note we will apply relevance to our Talent Management and Talent Development Programme as part of our recruitment process.

*Shortlisted candidates may need to complete an assessment.

This position requires trust and honesty it has access to customers financial details - therefore a credit and criminal record check will be conducted. The qualifications identified herein are an inherent job requirement; therefore, a qualification verification check will be done. By applying for this role, and supplying the necessary details, you hereby grant us permission to apply for these checks. This will be done in a confidential manner, and solely for the purposes of verification.

Should you not hear from us within 2 weeks, please deem your application as unsuccessful.

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD1292143
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
  • Education
    Not mentioned