Automation Tester at Absa

Job Summary

The CIB Payments team is looking for an Automation Tester on a contract basis to design automation testing plans and develop automation test scripts for multiple technical products / services (pre, during & post deployment) in both ‘Run & Change’ contexts and align to chosen application testing frameworks & guidelines. Testing may apply to all or a combination of the following front-end, back-end, integration, performance, scalability and regression testing of solutions. This entails full responsibility for ensuring products are protected through quantifiable test coverage & metrics.

Initial 6 month contract

Job Description

Key critical requirements:

• Min 5 years' automation testing experience

• Testing Methodologies--- Functional Testing, Automation Testing, Front End Testing, API Testing

• Testing Framework—Cucumber, TestNG, Data-driven and Hybrid framework

• Framework --- Selenium framework, Rest Assured,  MQ Testing ( MQ knowledge is important)

• Programming language—JAVA (must be competent in Java 8 min)

• Build Tool - Maven

• Version Control - GITHUB,BITBUCKET

• CI/CD—Jenkins, Docker

• Agile Tools- Atlassian suit

• Attention to detail is critical

Key accountability: QA Engineering

• Proactively contribute & participate in the full solution development lifecycle as a member of a squad / multiple squads as a QA automation specialist engineer

• Actively participate in daily Scrum and project planning meetings.

• Participate and analyze test automation requirements during the requirements analysis phase of technical product & service development, maintenance & optimization (across tribes & squads) – using design specifications and technical documentation (e.g. Business Briefs, User Stories, Architecture & Integration documentation)

• Prepare QA & Automation testing documentation (planning, design, execution and sustainability)

• Develop automation test plans

• Develop and execute automated test scripts using various technologies (automated scripts, test harnesses, SQL scripts etc.)

• Perform various types of automation testing (regression, integration, black box, scalability)

• Evaluate automated test cases and analyse & report results

• Facilitate test plan / case reviews within squads

• Work with product engineers to evaluate software / solution quality & provide recommendations for improvement / enhancement

• Contribute to the design and selection of testing frameworks for business applications

• Deliver all automation & technical testing deliverables on time (always)

• Provide the required project / scrum related information / feedback on deliverables (e.g. progress, tracking, quality etc.)

• Conduct performance monitoring on applications / components of applications for which you’ve designed and executed test scripts / plans

• Produce quality and testing outcome metrics and reports

Initial 6 month contract

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised