Intermediate Test Automation Engineer - Johannesburg at Allan Gray Proprietary Limited

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business analysts to extract testing requirements for user experience.
• Estimate effort for testing tasks.
• Manage and maintain test data.
• Document and execute manual tests.
• Create and maintain automated scripts required to run automated testing.
• Maintain existing test packs.
• Log and validate defects.
• Debug results.
• Report on test execution and any risks and issues.
• Participate in, assist with, and give feedback on any activities where product quality practices and risks should be considered.

Experience

• You have hands on experience with backend testing (testing data within databases, reports & applications)
• You have experience with SQL (read & write).
• You have tested logic under the hood, without interacting with UI.
• You have hands experience in API testing.
• You can program (we use Scala, JavaScript and UFT amongst others).
• You have a practical understanding of CICD.
• You care about releasing great software. 
• You know where it is most effective for an automated test to live (Unit, Integration, Acceptance Testing, E2E). 
• You understand the benefits of manual testing but also the costs. 
• You are continually trying to improve your testing skills. 
• You read widely about what is happening in the world of testing. 
• You can work under pressure. 
• You can solve complex testing issues. 
• Experience testing financial applications, will be advantageous. 

Education

• Degree in computer science or business information systems ideal, but solid experience will be considered as well