Senior QA Tester at The Career Network

Senior QA Tester 

• If you are thinking about getting into the NGO space and out of corporates to fulfil a purpose for the good of others then take a look at the spec below.

Cape Town, Southern Suburbs

R35k CTC

1. Current technologies worked on - they develop web applications using C# and PHP, front ends are JQuery, HTML5 and Bootstrap. There are a number of 3rd party applications that would need user testing and monitoring as well both automated and manual.

You should have:

• Have staff management/mentoriship experience
• Have a minimum of four years related work experience with references
• Have excellent communication skills
• Hold a valid South African Identity document
• Should have a valid driver’s license
• Hold an IT tertiary qualification in software testing/development
• Willing to work in an agile environment where changes are frequent, and technologies evolve

You will be doing:

• Manage a team of QA testers
• Provide or recommend training to staff on QA tools and methodologies
• Manage external QA service providers and vendors
• Create, maintain and enforce IT QA Benchmarks
• Create Service Level Agreements for all IT services measuring things such as up time and turnaround time
• Create and maintain qualitative surveys to analyse user experiences
• Maintain dashboards summarising service availability
• Participate in the requirements gathering process, focus on non-functional requirements such as reliability and fault tolerance
• Assess project plans and determine whether protocols are being followed
• Create QA plans for each project with deliverables and reporting timelines
• Carry out tests and evaluation throughout the project life cycle, iteratively evolving the QA plan
• Identify and prioritise key risks based on impact/urgency

Technical Skills:

• Experience with web application and cloud technologies
• Experience with database technologies such as MySQL or MSSQL
• Comfortable working in different development environments, programming languages and frameworks
• Good software development and code analysis skills (understanding)
• Experience in software test automation and performance testing tools
• Experience working in a continuous deployment/integration pipeline
• Excellent at producing test cases from user stories
• Ability to thoroughly investigate, analyse and test IT systems
• Excellent communication, summarising information into concise and clear reports