Software Engineer (QA Enablement) at Vodacom

Role Purpose

The SW Engineer for QA Enablement is responsible for developing testing frameworks and executing automated tests to ensure code and capability quality, overseeing the end-to-end development process. This role is responsible for reviewing technical design documents and tracking quality assurance metrics to ensure adherence to quality standards. This role is responsible for designing, scripting and implementing testing frameworks and capabilities, identifying deficiencies, debugging, and defining remediating actions. The incumbent will provide software-related operations support, including providing level two and level three incident and problem support.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to ensure adherence to design quality and coding standards.
• Discuss the low level design and functional requirements with the application/solution architect to understand the approach to test automation.
• Design and implement acceptance tests for user and technical stories.
• Test and validate solution against user story and technical story acceptance criteria, leveraging automation where possible.
• Debug tests and provide corrective actions to software engineering.
• Identify, record, and monitor testing bugs.
• Track quality assurance metrics, such as defect density and early life incidents.
• Estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate testing activities.
• Suggest improvements to user stories and UX.
• Collaborate with the Quality Assurance Enablement team to seek improvements to the test harness, automation framework and overall platform.
• Promote the automation framework and tools adopted by the Quality Assurance Enablement team.
• Perform ad hoc peer review of the automated test assets being maintained by the Software Test Engineer (STE) to ensure conformance of the process and governance.
• Develop/extend the automation scripts using the automation framework for execution.
• Implement the test automation with the objective that it has adequate coverage within the sprint and can be re-used for regression testing.
• Confirm that the automation test suite implemented is appropriately catalogued.
• Record defect(s) using the pre-defined defect management tool and ensure the relevant information is captured accurately that will assist with the root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with the stakeholder(s) to ensure the resolution of a defect and the root-cause analysis is performed and recorded.
• Report status of testing to the quality assurance squad daily.
• Participate in all retrospective reviews.
• Understand and manage my own demand based on expected timelines articulated by the line-management and project expectations.
• Provide guidance to the Software Test Engineers (STE) within the team to improve their technical capabilities.
• Executing performance tests.

Ideally You Should Possess The Following

• Matric/Grade 12 is essential.
• 3-year degree/diploma Bachelor’s Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field is essential.
• Cloud Development certification (eg. AWS Certified Developer) would be ideal.
• 3- 5 years of relevant experience in programming and systems analysis applying agile frameworks.
• Experience working with agile methodologies, such as SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, XP, LSD, and FDD.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture principles.
• Experience working in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment environments preferred.
• Experience and knowledge of Big Data and Analytics technologies preferred.
• Experience working in cloud-native (private cloud eg. Openshift and public cloud. Eg AWS, Azure Google Cloud) environments is preferred.