QA Engineer - Cape Town at DigiOutsource

Purpose:

We are looking for a focused, self- motivated and dynamic individual to join our Software Development Team. Reporting to the Team Lead, the Automation Engineer is responsible for the analysis, planning, setup, monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting and reporting of automated testing processes that run across multiple platforms. Our ideal candidate should have strong test automation skills, working diligently with Development and Dev Ops Teams to deliver high quality software and improve test effectiveness and efficiency where possible. 

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Review, analyse and identify automation requirements based on the functional and design specifications and ensure full understanding of deliverables.
• Review system architecture to determine appropriate test points.
• Proactively raise questions and seek resolution of outstanding clarifications required for automation setup.
• Implement automation strategies using a variety of tools to check quality standards and identify possible issues.
• Potential writing of custom automation solutions.
• Identify any potential quality issues per defined process and escalate issues to management.
• Provide management with metrics, analyses, and other relevant reports for automation across development.
• Setup, execution, and maintenance of Automated Test Suites for regression and ad-hoc testing of system components potentially affected by system changes.
• Monitors system performance after implementation to prevent re-occurrence of failures and ensures efficiency.
• Provide support to the Dev Ops Team who monitors production environments, by analyzing and addressing automation failures that occur.
• Troubleshoot with Development and Dev Ops Teams to reproduce, identify, and resolve issues; be able to clearly communicate defects.
• Hold and facilitate automation strategy sessions.
• Identify and provide/arrange necessary automation training to business or dev/tester groups.
• Taking responsibility and ownership of researching, POC and implementing Automation best practices, relevant methodologies, and new automation technologies.

Essential Criteria: 

• A minimum of 3 - 5 years’ hands-on QA experience including automation, load and performance testing.
• Good understanding of the STLC
• Selenium with C# experience (.NetCore)
• ISTQB qualification would be an advantage
• Experience in working with agile teams and successfully delivering agile based software projects.
• MongoDb, MS SQL Server, Grafana, Elastic
• Playwright
• Typescript
• API Testing
• Kafka/Rabbit experience
• Demonstrates consistent behaviour aligned to the Organizational Culture.

Desirable Criteria: 

• Exposure to automated front-end testing.
• YAML / Kubernetes / Gitlab CI
• Cloud (Azure)

Person Specifications: 

• Attention to detail.
• Adaptability
• Collaboration
• Communication
• Innovation
• Ownership
• Problem Solving
• Quality Focus