Test Automation Engineer at Expleo Group

Overview

• Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We are a talent incubator. The time you spend at Expleo will turbo-charge your career, allowing you to work on complex technical challenges, enjoy opportunities to expand your skills and take part in inspiring, multi-disciplinary collaborations with your colleagues. Whether working on autonomous vehicles, green planes, the factories of tomorrow or cutting-edge banking technology, you will have the opportunity to become a bolder version of yourself. Let’s change the game together.
• We are looking for a Test Automation Engineer to join our dynamic team in Johannesburg, Durban or Cape Town (Hybrid). 

Role Overview:

• In this role, you'll operate autonomously while providing senior-level guidance, managing teams, and overseeing project progress.
• Your main focus will be leading Quality Engineering projects, utilizing available test frameworks and tools to ensure projects meet their goals on time and within budget.

Responsibilities

• Take charge of various technical phases within projects or multiple smaller projects, which may involve moderate scope and occasionally complex tasks.
• Manage both personal and team schedules and resources efficiently within specific parameters and conditions.
• Write top-notch scripts using preferred tools, integrating them into scenarios to test specified non-functional use cases. Coordinate schedules, work plans, and resources while leading progress against the overall plan.
• Facilitate the information gathering and reporting process, conducting thorough research to define problems and prepare responses to anticipated questions.
• Establish traceability records, linking test cases back to requirements, and generate reports on system quality while collecting metrics on test cases.
• Develop test scripts, materials, and regression test packs for assessing new or updated software or services.
• Offer detailed guidance and advice to the team regarding the application of various technologies.
• Assist test management in devising project plans and monitoring progress against key milestone dates.
• Cultivate a network to provide support and enhance value in client engagements, encompassing both internal company connections and external professional networks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• ISEB / ISTQB Certification
• Additional course or certification in Quality Engineering

Essential skills

• Proficiency in Object-oriented Programming (OOP).
• Experience with development languages such as C# and Java.
• Background in Mobile Application development.
• Familiarity with SOAP and RESTFUL services.
• Ability to use testing tools and frameworks like Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, and Jira.
• Exposure to performance and load testing.

Experience

• Over 5 years of experience in test automation.
• Hands-on experience in Agile delivery methodologies and exposure to Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) within a continuous delivery framework.
• Proficiency in test analysis and design.
• Exposure to Non-Functional Testing (NFT).