Software Test Engineer at Kerridge Commercial Systems South Africa

About the job
Kerridge Commercial Systems (KCS) is the market leader in developing and delivering fully integrated business management solutions for distributors, suppliers, resellers, wholesalers and merchants. Our mission is simple: to design, implement and support high-performance systems that enable our customers to source effectively, stock efficiently, sell profitably and service competitively. Whilst Kerridge takes work seriously, we also like to have fun. You’ll be supported and you will work amongst the brightest minds in the industry. Our culture is one of massive support and growth.

Working as a Software Test Engineer within the Testing function of KCS you will ensure the quality of the products by generating and executing product functionality tests and identifying and reporting product defects as part of a cross functional project team. You will be part of a dynamic, energetic and accommodating team.

• You will work closely within a QA function consisting of approximately thirty individuals, ranging from Test Leads, Manual Test Analysts, Automation Testers, Release Engineers and Technical Authors. You will be responsible for both system testing and UAT testing of KCS’ ERP Solution (K8) from end to end to ensure it is working as expected.

Main Duties And Responsibilities

• You will be expected to undertake a wide range of activities and your responsibilities will include:
• Develops Automated and Manual Tests
• Participate in all aspects of QA product lifecycle: understand the product requirements, test cases creation, feature/regression/integration/end-to-end test execution.
• Runs through test cases and reports on results
• Ensure defects are being reported on and tracked.
• Working with developers to diagnose and rectify software problems.
• Understand product business requirements and review functional specifications, to detect and remove defects early in the product development lifecycle
• Write test cases in line with a specification to test core functionality, identify and investigate ambiguities in test results and propose solutions
• Execute test cases on specific areas of product functionality and check outcomes against expected results
• Participates fully in Agile development processes including communicating and voicing ideas, questions, and concerns openly with the team
• Participates fully in the relevant scrum events; planning and estimation, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Implement and use the departmental standard QA processes and tools.
• Working collaboratively with developers and testers to ensure quality is built into our applications as new feature and technologies are introduced.
• Embraces continuous improvement as part of our Scrum process.

Essential

Skills

• Knowledge and Experience
• ISTQB qualification
• Experience of software developments using Agile methodology
• Experience of Automated testing (C#, Selenium Webdriver, Specflow, Appium, API or web application or mobile testing)
• Experience of writing, maintaining and executing manual test cases
• Expertise across the entire test lifecycle
• Experience of integration testing.