Intermediate Tester (Automation) at Santam Insurance

JOB DESCRIPTION

• The incumbent will take responsibility for the automation testing process, tools, techniques, and standards that meet business requirements on the Santam Oracle's JD Edwards platform guided by test centre of excellence standards.

PRINCIPLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Analyses and develops proper automated regression test coverage using Santam’s Automation Framework. 
• Develop test strategies, plans, and maintain automation test data 
• Develop and continuously improve automated tests as new system features and enhancements are developed 
• Execution and monitoring of Automated regression packs • Validating test results and logging defects. 
• Ensure the appropriate test environments and infrastructures are in place and kept up to date.
• Analyse metrics for quality assessment/improvement 
• May work with Business Analysts to influence and monitor User Acceptance Testing. 
• Identify and report to dev teams questionable functions, performance concerns, and inconsistencies 
• Weekly and testing progress reports sent to management for overall testing reporting. 
• Responsibilities may require hours and weekend work in response to the needs of the systems being supported.
• Ensure the test automation solution meets the architectural and development standards that are re-usable and scalable. 
• Working closely with the test manager.

QUALITY ASSURANCE

• Functional and Non-Functional testing of developed software to ensure it meets quality standards 
• Participates in code reviews, technical issue resolution meetings and dev ops forums when needed.
• Participates in test community of practise

QUALIFICATIONS and EXPERIENCE

• Relevant Tertiary IT qualification preferred with strong mathematical background 
• 3 years experience in the Full Software Quality Assurance Lifecycle 
• Experience testing API’s using postman
• QA related certification i.e., ISTQB Foundation (preferably) with solid automation testing background 
• Oracle's JD Edwards background will be advantageous 
• Scrum@Scale background will be advantageous

Experience In 

• Testing Levels & Lifecycle 
• Build and implement Automation frameworks 
• Designing and writing test automation scripts using Selenium 
• Develop and configure test automation networks and execute stability and performance tests. 
• Coordinate with software developers to deliver stable enterprise software products. 
• Understanding of Agile scrum 
• Apply, design, and develop automated testing strategies and build automated testing frameworks. 
• Analyse and verify best automated and manual test approaches and execute acceptance, integration and system testing. 
• Analyse performance test requirements and develop test plans and debug to understand test objective requirements. 
• Establish test strategy and manual and automated test suites 
• Xray Test Management Tool 
• Creating and Implementing Automated Regression Test Strategies 
• Testing Techniques

Process Improvement Models 

• Experience with API testing and automation thereof 
• Experience with SQL 
• Integrate automated testing into a Bamboo CI/CD framework

KNOWLEDGE

• Good working knowledge in testing best practices 
• Working knowledge of the Atlassian Suite of products (e.g., Bamboo, JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket) and Monitoring Tools would be advantageous 
• Knowledge of the short-term insurance industry is advantageous 
• Competent in problem solving and troubleshooting 
• Prioritising objectives and planning 
• Accurate time estimates for automation test development 
• Identifying, resolving, or escalating risks, issues, dependencies, etc. 
• Must be able to work in a highly pressurised and dynamic environment 
• Mentoring QA Testers transitioning into automation testing in use of Automation Frameworks 
• Able to accept accountability for actions and decisions