Quality Assurance Engineer (Contract – 12 Months) – Western Cape at Paracon

Duties include, but not limited to:

• Review, analyse and identify test requirements based on the functional and design specifications from technical documentation (Business/Development briefs, Use Case Diagrams, Architectures and/or Integration Documents) and ensure full understanding of individual deliverables.
• Working with Development & Product Teams to understand the requirements and prepare QA documents pertaining to planning, design, implementation, execution and exit reporting.
• Proactively raise questions and seek resolution of outstanding clarifications required for testing.
• Create, document and maintain test plan/cases around new and existing business requirements and technical specifications.
• Execute and evaluate manual/automated test cases and report test results.
• Potential writing of custom test solutions (automated scripts, test harnesses, SQL scripts etc.)
• Hold and facilitate test plan/case reviews with Testing, Development & Product Teams.
• Ensure that validated deliverables meet functional and design specifications and requirements.
• Troubleshoot with development team to identify, replicate, verify and report defects.
• Performance, Load & Stress testing.
• Setup and maintain Automation for monitoring and regression
• Perform regression and ad-hoc testing of system components potentially affected by system changes.
• Actively participate in daily Scrum and project planning meetings.
• Working together with QA Manager and Test Lead to ensure that testing needs for all supported projects are met in a timely manner and that all software products meet the quality levels set by Business.
• Communicate with Product Owners and Product Support Analysts to ensure all Quality Assurance projects are managed, tracked and delivered to customer expectations with highest quality standards, within required timelines.
• Provide Management with metrics, analysis, and other relevant reports regarding the quality of testing.
• Identify any potential quality issues per defined process and escalate immediately to Management.
• Create and maintain constant communication and healthy working relationships between Quality Assurance Development and Product Teams.

Essential Criteria:

• Experience with contemporary load/stress/performance/automation testing tools.
• Experience solving technical problems and ability to translate technical requirements into test plans.

Desirable Criteria:

• Good general Development programming knowledge.
• Good general IT knowledge.
• Ability to find defects and bugs quickly.
• Experience with backend database testing, including validating stored procs, jobs and triggers.
• Understanding of systems and architecture (DB’s, Servers, Networks etc.)
• Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experiences in Quality Management Software and Processes.
• Knowledge and experience in technical aspects of software solution being tested.
• Functional/Technical Skills.
• Business process understanding.