QA Engineer - Umkhosi at DigiOutsource

The Department

• QA (Quality Assurance) are responsible for the overall quality and testing architecture of our products that our department produces. We use a range of innovative front-end and back-end tools & technology to drive robust, well-engineered practices through to delivery, giving the business that sought after confidence. Consisting of QA Manager, Test Architects, Performance Test Manager, Performance Test Engineers and QA Engineers, we have a deeply embedded culture of collaboration, sharing our experiences and skills throughout.

Purpose Of The Role

• QA Engineers will perform testing procedures on Web/Mobile Applications and ensure all errors are identified and corrected before releasing to production.
• You will be involved in ensuring high quality is engrained into teams as well as working closely with developers to give them a test perspective.

Duties Will Include (but Not Limited To)

• Quality from the start – get involved in the user story definition process and write test scenarios upfront.
• Bring a QA perspective to planning sessions and ensure test effort is taken into consideration.
• Work close with developers to ensure that quality is considered and they are creating the right kind of tests.
• Work with product owners to ensure they sign off work items during the UAT phase.
• Support - Assist with resolution and reproduction of user software problems.
• Creation of automated test within as well as conversion of current manual tests.
• Work within the ATDD framework and define items using BDD style syntax.
• Ensure that bugs are treated with importance and try to limit the amount that make it live.

Essential Criteria

• Full understanding of testing web/mobile applications, websites, and associated technologies
• An understanding of testing backend services, specifically microservice architecture
• Communication skills - ability to communicate with clients and line management effectively
• Experience of Agile methodology, either Scrum or Kanban
• Experience with test automation tools and strategies
• Experience of using BDD effectively
• Proven JavaScript & TypeScript experience
• Experience with any of the following Frameworks: WebDriver (not IDE) / WebDriver.IO /Playwright Cypress / TestCafe
• Experience with Continuous Delivery processes & tools
• Exposure to API testing practices & tools
• Basic abilities with YAML
• An awareness to key metrics for measuring the performance of QA efforts
• An awareness towards processes for feature flag testing and testing in production

Desirable Criteria

• Specialist software testing skills and knowledge of structured software testing methodologies gained through formal training
• Previous exposure to Microsoft Azure DevOps & VSTS
• Experience with actively developing & managing Docker infrastructure
• Experience with managing & creating Owaps Zap testing scripts for security testing
• Exposure to Sauselabs or other tools for mobile testing
• Experience with Terraform / Pulumi

Personal Specifications

• Take responsibility and ownership for completing assigned tasks that may rely on the contribution of other team members
• Be extremely detail-oriented with respect to documentation and communication
• Be at ease with mentoring and supporting peers
• Able to organise & plan day to day without guidance.
• Being able to collaborate with peers effectively within the direct team and on cross team initiatives