QA Engineer at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

The Absa Access team within CIB Corporate Technology is looking for a QA Engineer 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.
This opportunity is on a contract basis, initial 12 month contract

Job Description

Key critical requirements:

• Min 5 years’ automation testing experience
• Automation Testing experience, including DevOps and CI/CD
• Exposure to open source (Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience in the following: Selenium, Cypress.io, Cucumber, SpecFlow, Jmeter.
• Experience with performance engineering and load testing is a huge plus.
• Experience & expertise (Basic) in coding languages such as Java, C# .Net  and some experience- in software engineering / development
• Well versed in web services paradigms such as REST and protocols such as HTTP.
• Experience working on web applications and/or web-based technologies.
• Proficient in multiple forms of test approaches for application testing including functional, cross-browser compatibility, mobile, web service, and integration testing etc.
• Experience with SOAP, REST, RPC or other client-server API testing.
• Experience in Git or other source code management systems.
• Comfortable in AGILE development environments and cross-functional team structures.
• Experience with end-to-end SDLC, testing methodologies and test phases, including unit, assembly, system, integration, regression testing.
• Strong work ethic and integrity.
• Strong analytical abilities, troubleshooting skills, and attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability aptitude in logical and analytical thinking, as well as display strong problem solving skills.
• Experience in creating own automation frameworks.

*12 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