Senior Engineer Automation Tester at MultiChoice

Key Performance Objectives

Test Engineering:

• Participation in all agile team ceremonies with the view of increasing understanding of requirements, suggesting ways of implantation and identifying non-functional requirements
• Analyze and translate business requirements into test scenarios and test cases, and execute tests independently
• Design and script highly readable and extendable automated test scripts according to the automation development guidelines
• Participate in automation code reviews and provide constructive feedback
• Implement and contributing to framework improvements to improve automation code coverage
• Participate in the creation and execution of load and performance tests and provide detailed report on test execution and recommendations
• Ensure correct documentation of test cases
• Perform test leadership tasks
• Keeping abreast of the bigger picture over and above your immediate team
• Keeping a view of the overall performance of our application and suggest ways of improving key areas
• Support the DStv product by participating in product support initiatives
• Monitor production environment using the available tools with a view of noticing potential issues before they impact the customer
• Research, POC and implement improvements to our ways of working

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology/Computer Science or Equivalent
• ISTQB Foundation Level Testing certification

Qualifications Preferred

• ISTQB Intermediate Level Testing certification
• Agile certification

Experience

• Minimum 5 years’ relevant experience in software testing
• 3 years automation testing experience developing regression and sanity tests using open source tools (UI and API)
• 1 year load and performance testing, monitoring and reporting
• Working in a high pressure environment potentially supporting multiple teams with high demand in quality and delivery
• Proven experience creating automation frameworks
• Proven understanding of automation testing fundamentals
• Knowledge of different types of load and performance testing techniques and tools
• Preferred Testing technologies: Selenium Webdriver, Cucumber, Karate, Postman, Appium, Groovy, Rest Assured, IntelliJ, Charles Proxy, Gatling,Java, Python
• Basic cloud infrastructure knowledge advantageous (AWS)
• Experience in test leadership and mentorship

Technical Competencies  

• Keen troubleshooting and problem solving abilities
• Understanding of development methodology
• Creative thinking and detail orientated
• Understanding different automation frameworks
• Data management
• Relationship management