Staff/Lead Quality Engineer at Luno

The role in a nutshell:

As Senior Quality Engineer, you’ll be working closely with a growing Quality Engineering Team, Ishita Gupta our Engineering Quality Manager, and Mark Debney our Engineering Operations Director to champion service and enable quality of the delivery. Working closely with fleets to help them in this journey with their unique challenges while enabling our teams to reach their maximum potential without compromising on the quality.

Your mission will be:

• Help cross-functional teams providing support for testing activities - manual, automation and test processes
• Help teams to implement required types of testing to have best test coverage
• Drive and perform required types of manual and automation testing in the pods.
• Drive and perform required types of functional and non-functional testing.
• Help the Quality Engineering Manager collating the details from test observations and coverage across pods.
• Help the teams (engineers, agile team,product team) in understanding and resolving the quality engineering issues covering defect triage, test coverage 
• Work with Quality Engineering manager to drive new process improvements

A little about you:

• At least 5+ years of experience as a Test Engineer or similar role, with a focus on designing and implementing test strategies and test automation solutions in an agile development environment.
• Experience of the complete product development lifecycle preferably within a multidisciplinary team and in an environment using recognised development and testing methodologies
• Experience with defect management and agile development practices following SDLC.
• Proficiency in different types of manual and automation testing like for UI, API, Database etc.,  for web and mobile apps.
• Strong knowledge of various functional, non-functional types of testing.
• Experience in test automation frameworks, tools, and scripting languages  like Selenium/Espresso/Cypress/Playwright, Jmeter and ability to drive automation in CI/CD model.
• Experience or familiarity with cloud computing (Azure/AWS).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to think critically and creatively.
• Quality-oriented mindset with a keen attention to detail.
• Relevant certifications, such as ISTQB or CSTE, are a plus.
• Ability to work in South Africa