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Imagine a world where people live healthier, more enhanced and protected lives… A world in which each organisation is a powerful influencer and responsible corporate citizen, committed to being a force for social good. As a leading innovator in healthcare, wellness, insurance, investments, financial and life planning, Discovery works ceaselessly to...
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Key Purpose
As an Agile Test Analyst, you will be a key part of a Scrum team, and will have a huge impact on the quality of Discovery’s growing range of digital touchpoints and services that allow the IM Systems to deliver all outbound and in-bound communications in the best possible way. The Digital Channels team works on dynamic new projects and product enhancements within the web and mobile platforms in order to improve business inefficiencies, gain competitive advantage on our products and ultimately to provide better service to our clients. Using knowledge of the organization’s technology infrastructure and specific software applications, Digital Channels helps the business to address changes through technologies.
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
Working as a collaborative member of the Scrum team
Writing and executing test cases against stories, creating and maintaining tests in line with agreed testing standards and practices
Documenting defects and making these visible to the teams and the Product Owner
Providing feedback on user stories from a quality point of view and promoting bug prevention strategies, testability, accessibility and other QA concepts
Collaborating with other testers, BAs, developers, designers and other experts across the business to deliver business and customer value
Being proactively involved in the end-to-end lifecycle of digital features including code reviews, user stories grooming, requirements understanding
Actively participating in all relevant Agile ceremonies and cadences
Personal Attributes and Skills
Excellent working knowledge of test methodologies, writing test plans, creating test cases and debugging
Extensive technical understanding across the digital domain
A thorough understanding of testing/QA best practices
Experience working in large, complex organisations
Demonstrated experience in successfully contributing to development teams in an Agile/Scrum environment
Understanding of common software failures and faults
Knowledge of the domain (highly desirable)
Knowledge of the system or application-under-test (highly desirable)
Experience in a variety of testing efforts (desirable)
Education and Experience
IT Diploma or other relevant degree
At least 1-2 years experience in manual testing
Advantageous
ISTQB Foundation Level Certificate
Agile Methodology Certification
Methodologies
Scrum
Kanban
Tools
Jira
Confluence
Postman
SoapUI
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