Senior Automation Test Analyst at Swift Momentum

Job description

Summary:
Objective Automation Test Analyst is responsible for designing, developing and executing automation test cases that verify a software conformance to defined acceptance criteria (i.e. system behaviours) and feature design documents, as well as application standards

Duties & Responsibilities

• Design and implement Automation Testing strategy and framework within the test team and advise test manager on requirements and process.
• Evaluate and select appropriate tools, and utilize specific automation testing tools within the ALM range (HP, IBM, MS, open-source etc.) best suited to the environment and/or project(s). Plan and perform automation test activities across multiple application architectures.
• Create detailed Automation Test Standard and SOP documents.
• Maintain non-functional script repository in the required location where it is accessible to test team members.
• Develop automation test plans, test cases (scripts) and executing those test cases on allocated projects, coordinating with other test analysts, project managers and test manager to ensure their different timelines are met.
• Together with the testing team, review the architecture and designs of systems and features, and actively engage with Business Analysts and Developers to ensure the soundness of proposed solutions.
• Review and revise acceptance criteria to guarantee they are fit for purpose once fulfilled. Source and prepare required test data
• Analyze test results and coordinate with development teams for bug fixes. Perform technical and non-functional validations across the development life cycle and provide information on trends and/or failure points.
• Analyze root causes of automation issues (like bottlenecks, restrictions, risks) and provide corrective actions.
• Provide timeous test results to the project team that include test progress and defect reporting.
• On a day-to-day basis work with all the stakeholders involved in the SDLC process and also the client (business users).

Essential Experience and Skills

• Good Microsoft Office skills required, especially Excel.
• 5+ Years’ testing experience with at least 3 years with automation tools (Development, Execution, Analysis and Reporting)
• Solid PL/SQL and SQL experience required.
• Automation skills and experience on tools is required.
• Good understanding of overall automation engineering concepts. Good understanding of system architecture.
• Experience with major development languages required as per test automation tools.
• Experience testing of web applications and virtual machines.
• Use of 2 or more development languages (e.g. Java/JQuery, Javascript, Python/Jython, Ruby, Groovy, C++/C#, CSS, .Net, VBScript and SQL
• Exposure to web technologies and service layers (e.g. HTTP, HTTPS, TCP/IP, DNS XML, REST, and HTML)
• Exposure to mobile automation on IOS and Android devices
• Exposure to development or test automation tools/frameworks (e.g. Selenium Grid, Junit, SOAP-UI, Eclipse, Jenkins, CA-Lisa, Ant, Maven, Visual Studio, HP ALM/QTP and JIRA)
• Exposure to platforms/OS/Servers (e.g. Windows Server, Linux/Unix, J2EE, IIS, Apache and Tomcat)

Education, skills and specialist knowledge required

• Grade 12/NQF Level 4
• ISTQB/ISEB Foundation Testing Certification required.
• Qualifications on programming for manipulation of automation scripts.
• Preferred / Advantageous Qualifications
• ISTQB Advanced Test Automation qualification