Senior QA Technical Tester at DigiOutsource

Purpose of the Role:

We are looking for a focused, self- motivated and dynamic individual to join our Software Development Team. Reporting to the Team Lead, the successful candidate will ensure the testing needs for all supported projects are met in a timely manner and that all software products meet the quality levels set by Business. The Technical Tester will be responsible for the analysis, planning, execution and reporting of technical test related activities for developed business applications, ensuring that they are effectively tested against agreed functional and non-functional requirements prior to, and post production deployment. Our ideal candidate should have strong technical testing, interpersonal and communication skills, working diligently with Development and Product teams to deliver high quality software.

Duties include, but not limited to:

• Review, analyse, identify test requirements based on the functional, 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 plans/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.
• Communicate with Product Owners & PSA’s to ensure all QA 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 QA, Development and Product Teams.

Support to Team

• Transfer of business and technical knowledge to the greater team.
• Technical guidance and mentoring of developers.
• Support to Technical Lead and Software Development Manager
• Assist in enforcing Agile and Scrum methodology in the teams.
• Assist in code reviews.
• Assist in coordinating Pair Programming.
• Assist in implementation of best practices, coding standards and relevant methodologies.

Essential Criteria:

• Excellent understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including Quality Management Software, Tools and Processes.
• Back End Testing Experience (Blackbox, Whitebox).
• Excellent understanding and knowledge of Visual Studio, JIRA and GIT.
• Good understanding of C# coding, SQL and mongodb.
• Backend database testing, including validating stored procs, jobs and triggers.
• Knowledge of how to use Automation Tools & Frameworks such as Selenium, Nunit, SOAP UI, Postman, Visual Studio Test, Team City, etc.
• Understanding and knowledge of how to setup & execute SOAP and REST API Testing.
• Creative solving of technical problems and ability to translate technical requirements into test plans.
• Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables – ensures the ability to find defects and bugs quickly.
• Familiarity with contemporary load/stress/performance/automation testing tools.
• Demonstrates consistent behaviour aligned to the Organizational Culture.

Desirable Criteria:

• Good general Development programing knowledge.
• Understanding of systems and architecture (DB's, Servers, Networks etc.).
• Business process understanding.
• ISTQB Foundation Level Certification.
• Have knowledge on domain specific applications (eg Kibana, RabbitMQ, Mongo).

Person Specifications:

• Teamwork
• Stress Tolerance
• Organisation & Planning
• Communication
• Ownership
• Accountability And Execution
• Problem Solving
• Adaptability / Flexibility