Automation Tester at Absa Group Limited (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.

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

Closing Date: 20th, March 2022