Automation Test Analyst at Paracon

Job Purpose

Our client is a well-respected organisation, with their roots in South Africa, however, they have a global reach with business interests all over Africa and the world. They strive to cultivate a culture of happy people who love working there, plus they can offer you endless opportunity to progress professionally and work alongside a team of really talented people who love what they do.

They like their Testers to be technical, analytical and passionate about testing!

• You will be responsible for solving complex and small testing issues using some of the industry’s latest technologies. 
• Automation is a key part of what they do, so they will expect you to have a strong coding background to assist in building the automation systems that enable them to deliver world-class software.
•  It's important that you can understand the systems you will testing, therefore you must have the ability to program (they use Scala, Javascript and UFT amongst others) OR be interested in learning to program. 
• Test and Build API’s 
• Understand container tools like (Docker / Kubernetes)
• You need to know how to write SQL and where it is most effective for an automated test to live (Unit, Integration, E2E), as well as understand the benefits of manual testing but also the costs.
• Lastly, you need to have experience in testing financial applications and enjoy complicated numerical calculations.

A Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems will be preferable, but solid experience will be considered as well. Should this be the opportunity you have been waiting for, and feel you are the perfect addition to this talented team! Get in touch, we look forward to chatting with you.