Quality Assurance Engineer at Healthforce.io

• As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you’ll work to ensure only our best work makes it to our customers. You’ll engage with a collaborative, high-powered team to develop and execute test plans and automation suites for projects. The solutions you’ll test will ensure robustness and integrity for our customers and business. The automation you’ll create will enhance our agility as we continue to scale. You’ll instrument our ability to test and coordinate with stakeholders for deployment to ensure we hit our goals.

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING

• Define, implement, and maintain test plans, specifications, and suites using object-oriented methodologies.
• Implement and execute test strategies on all supported platforms and languages to help improve the overall quality and test code coverage.
• Setup and management of test data
• Should be able to do both functional and automation.
• Development of application requirements to support the implementation of test scenarios
• Design and develop integration, regression, and stress tests using industry-standard tools.
• Tracking defects within the issue tracking system
• Improving the process of QA execution
• Analysing specifications to identify gaps early in the product pipeline
• Balancing time and quality to maximise product and business opportunity
• Analysis and problem-solving production issues
• Collaboration. You will work closely with other engineers, product managers, business analysts, designers, and other stakeholders across the organisation to understand the problem and provide insightful input in designing the best solution. 
• Continuous improvement. Advocate for and introduce improvements to our development, testing, CI, automation and architecture. Improve the data team's best practices and processes. YOu will also find ways to automate repetitive and manual tasks.
• Support deployed code. You will provide support and insight on deployed code to offer support and swift resolution to issues raised by various stakeholders. You will proactively find ways to prevent negative user experiences.
• Importantly, you need to be socially minded and should want to apply your creativity and skills to reimagining the way out-of-hospital healthcare can be delivered to all South Africans when enabled by technology.

CULTURE FIT

• Healthforce’s culture is central to how we do things. We help people, we are aware, and our experience informs our pragmatic approach. That translates into specific behaviours we expect of each other internally and in how we serve our external stakeholders: the ability to connect, the ability to plan; the ability to keep people informed; the ability to deliver; and the ability to learn and grow.

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

• 3+ years writing Test Automation
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies.
• Advanced knowledge of one or more automation tools – Selenium, Cypress, etc.
• Strong understanding of RESTful API web services
• Hands-on experience writing automation for APIs using Postman, SOAPUI, Rest Assured, or other API testing tools
• Knowledge of relational databases and SQL
• Debugging skills
• Preferred language Python/Bash Scripting
• Hand-on experience in working with ETL Testing

EDUCATION

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics or related field.
• Professional certification, such as Six Sigma, Quality Engineer, or Quality Auditor
• Short courses to keep up to speed with modern QA practices.