Automation Quality Engineer at Old Mutual South Africa

Old Mutual Finance is currently seeking to hire a Automation Quality Engineer. This is a nationally based role that forms part of the Old Mutual Finance Information Technology Team.

In This Role, You will get to:

• Design test cases and perform testing of applications.
• Identify, document and track bugs.
• Perform re-testing when bugs are resolved.
• Perform regression testing when needed.
• Understanding of UI and backend testing.
• Perform initial analysis for technical issues and work closely with developers to reproduce and solve problems.
• Work within an Agile environment.

IT Service Delivery

• Completes Test Strategy and have a high level understanding of all projects.
• Manages testing, including achievement of milestones and deliverables.
• Provides quality control and improvement of processes and outputs.
• Undertakes operational and technical aspects of processing information, data evaluation and analysis.

Reporting

• Manages effective communication with all stakeholders.
• Keep all stakeholders updated on outcome of test execution results.

Risk Management

• Identifies impending risks that may compromise achievement of deliverables and initiates steps to mitigate risk.

Stakeholder Management

• Builds and maintains relationships with relevant internal/external stakeholders.
• Understands the requirements and where applicable, liaise, communicates and provides assistance.

Team Effectiveness

• Ensures SDLC Testing component is met.
• Manages the testing component within agreed timetables.
• Provides strategic direction, undertakes test planning, scopes the testing required, estimates the effort and duration of testing, and determines resource and environment requirements

Technical Consultation

• Contributes knowledge and expertise where required for peer review and to projects being undertaken by other business units.

What You Will Need To Succeed:

• A Matric or Grade 12 equivalent and a minimum of 3 years experience in a similar role, with some automation testing skills.
• Relevant tertiary qualification advantageous.
• ISTQB Foundation and Agile certification is advantageous.
• Object Orientated Programming knowledge advantageous.

Experience and skills are required in the following:

• Postman
• PractiTest
• Test case creation, execution and reporting
• Defect management
• Jira
• Regression Testing
• Re-testing
• Functional Testing
• Smoke Testing
• Time-management
• Java coding
• TestNG
• Selenium
• Maven
• Jenkins
• Git

Advantageous skills:

• Allure Reports
• Locust Performance Tool
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Virtual Machines
• BrowserStack