Software Quality Assurance - Manual Tester - Cape Town at Pragma Global

Minimum Requirements

• NQF 6 - Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant National Diploma or relevant College qualification

With preferably one of the following certifications:

• ISTQB Foundation certificate
• ISTQB Advance certificate
• Test Manager certificate
• Greater than 36 months experience in manual testing
• Excellent understanding of the Test Management Lifecycle (TMLC) as a subset of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Test requirements analysis
• Test effort estimation
• Recording of test plans, which includes the creation of test scenarios and test cases to meet the exception criteria using Azure/DevOps/TFS
• Test environment preparation
• Test execution using Azure/DevOps/TFS
• Defect logging using Azure/DevOps/TFS
• Test closure/reporting using Azure/DevOps/TFS
• Ability to write and/or maintain test automation script using Python (Minimum foundational fundamentals understanding/competency with > 24 months experience) (Optional)
• Experience in the use of Selenium to automate web browser interaction. Must be able to configure Selenium using Python, install Selenium libraries in Python, download and install PyCharm, create a new project and write the Selenium test script, and run and validate the test scripts. (Optional)
• Excellent verbal and writing skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Analytical thinker
• Problem solver
• Great time management skills
• Needs to be thorough in recording detail
• Needs to be able to work under pressure

Duties & Responsibilities

Analyse

• Create test analyse task
• Analyse requirements for all features, technical debt features and defects in a release cycle, per sprint
• Analyse the acceptance criteria for all features, technical debt features and defects in a release cycle, per sprint

Design

• Create test design task
• Design test plan (new) or amend existing test plan for existing features and/or defects
• Review test plan
• Provide thought leadership regarding test designs

Develop

• Created test tasks.
• Size test task with a level-3 estimation.
• Review sizing of test tasks.
• Update test tasks daily.
• Be a test Subject Matter Expert (SME)
• Mentor a colleague (be a "Buddy") in testing

Test

• Perform test plan reviews
• Execute tests (manual and/or automated) against test plan
• Review test output and record defects, if needed
• Be accountable for testing delivery

Deploy

• Obtain test sign-off from business analyst
• Continuous Improvement of Software Test Lifecycle processes