Digital Solutions Software Tester II at AECOM

Job Description

• AECOM is seeking a talented and experienced Software Quality Assurance Tester to work a hybrid work schedule out of one of our offices in Cape Town, Durban, or Johannesburg South Afirca.
• The successful candidate will play an integral role on multiple projects ensuring the quality of internal and client-facing applications.
• Our R&D team produces a variety of applications, typically with geospatial capabilities, that run on the desktop, web, AWS, and a variety of client production systems.
• The candidate will need to learn topics in water resources engineering and flood mitigation.
• This is an exciting opportunity to join an accomplished team and work on a variety of exciting and innovative projects for our various clients.
• We take pride in helping our clients deliver critical resources and services, improving the places where people live and work, and sustaining a world in which we can all flourish.

The typical responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Conduct manual testing on a variety of desktop and web solutions.
• Define, build, and maintain test scenarios that validate these solutions on an ongoing basis.
• Execute test scenarios, monitor test results, identify issues, and work with the software development team to resolve.
• Ensure solutions fulfill the highest possible quality, performance, usability, and supportability criteria.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field from an accredited university.
• 2+ years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.
• Experience with manual testing of desktop and/or web applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Experience working with Agile methodologies, such as Scrum.
• Experience with ESRI and open-source GIS technologies.
• Basic familiarity with DevOps concepts.
• Demonstrated aptitude with relational database systems such as SQL Server.
• Demonstrated aptitude with cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Ability to clearly explain ideas and thoughts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Passion for quality, detail oriented, and know how to break software by finding bugs.
• Interest in learning about GIS technologies.