Job Description

Our Client a Global tech firm is seeking a Software Quality Engineer to join their team in Rivonia (onsite) on a contract basis. They offer stability, growth, attractive rates and a great working environment.The Software Quality Assurance / Testing Engineer is a seasoned subject matter expert, responsible for participating in every phase of the development process to ensure that the design and software adhere to company standards.This role collaborates with various stakeholders in the development and execution of exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality.Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Works across multiple teams to ensure the planning, execution, reporting, and successful completion of QA activities for all new development cycles for various releases.
• Contributes to Agile-related user story review meetings and/or work with relevant business stakeholders and developers to understand the new or modified application functionality.
• Designs and implements end-to-end test scenarios, as well as debugging and defining corrective actions.
• Contributes to performing and documenting risk analysis and record test progress and results. Performing thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.
• Works across multiple teams to review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
• Creates detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.
• Designs, develops, codes, and executes automation scripts
• Works across multiple teams to identify, record, document thoroughly, and track bugs and develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs.
• Develops standards and procedures to determine product quality and release readiness.
• Development languages, preference to Java.
• Object orientated programming (OOP).
• Mobile test automation.
• SOAP and RESTFUL services.
• Use of testing tools and frameworks (eg Selenium, Appium, RestAssured, Karate, Jira, JMeter).
• Service virtualisation & data virtualisation advantageous.
• Vulnerability testing advantageous

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• BSc IT or BCom IT or similar qualification
• ISTQB Agile foundations cert (advanced preferred).

Required Experience:

• Bootcamp training in Agile & DevOps.
• Test analysis & design.
• Test automation experience.
• Development experience preferred.
• Experience in Agile delivery.
• Exposure to Test Driven Development (TDD) advantageous.
• Experience in Behaviour Driven Development (BDD).
• Exposure within a continuous delivery model preferred.
• Experience in NFT (Performance, load, stress).
• Ability to understand and interpret logical solution architecture.
• Understanding/exposure/experience of DevOps pipelines and tools.

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