Software Quality Assurance Technician at Softsure

About the job

Softsure is looking for Quality Assurance Technicians to join their growing development team. The successful candidate will be joining a young, dynamic team responsible for building new and exciting tech solutions in the insurance space.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Assisting the team in designing and implementing a testing framework.

• Testing multiple applications on a host of platforms and devices to ensure the quality and identify bugs to be fixed.

• Auditing of existing systems.

• Improving release quality and facilitating our SDLC through testing and quality assurance

• Building Automated Tests using Selenium and Postman.

• Continuous improvements to process and overall testing

• Identifying software application weaknesses and target areas

• Reviewing software bug reports and highlighting problem areas

• Writing automation scripts and implementing software applications

• Troubleshooting automation software

• Identifying quality issues and creating test reports.

• Collaborating with the Development team to solve application faults.

• Create new automated tests and tasks and convert existing manual tests and tasks where applicable.

• Ensure that bugs are identified and resolved before going into production

• Taking part in cross-team activities such as knowledge-sharing and documentation

Skills/experience that you should have:

• Matric or equivalent.

• Basic knowledge of Unit and Feature testing libraries

• Basic understanding programming frameworks.

• Knowledge of SDLC

• Basic Understanding of APIs and use of Postman

• Experience in C# based Selenium Automation frameworks

• Familiarity with programming script languages including

• programming skills including automation systems and databases

• C# (or similar scripting) experience

• Previous experience working as a QA automation engineer

• Strong attention to detail

• Good written and verbal communication skills

• Agile Methodology

• Knowledge of Azure CI/CD

• Execute manual test cases to assist manual testing

• Knowledge of the Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, Trello etc).

• Thoroughness and desire for self-development.

• Problem-solving ability.

• A good team-player and an excellent communicator (written and verbal).

 Other advantageous skills/experience:

• Any software testing certification or relevant degree.

• Experience in Security Testing

• Experience in LnP (load & performance) Testing

• Project management

• react and/or angular experience

What we offer you:

• A permanent position within a great team of technical leads, software developers, QA technicians and project managers.

• Market related salary

• Medical aid and retirement annuity contributions as per company policy

• Yearly bonus as per company bonus policy

It is important to note that this position is based in George, Western Cape.  

It is office based and no opportunity for remote working