Automation Test Analyst

SUMMARY:
Psybergate is an IT company that builds bespoke software solutions and provides highly skilled resources to its clients.
We are looking for a Automation Test Analyst / QA Engineer to join our financial services client based in Sandton for a 9-months contract role.

POSITION INFO:
What you will be doing:

• Follow engineering best practices and continuously improve on engineering knowledge to successfully shift QA capability forward
• Leverage coding language, expert understanding of how to deploy testing requirements for specific products or services
• Understand the full technical solution being tested – show interest and capability to run the technical solution and the ability to test the viability of the code being developed
• Shift from testing features to supporting and being accountable for full product delivery
• Apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills to solve technical problems
• Supervise and maintain the organization’s CI/CD pipelines
• Maintain awareness of application risks and opportunities for improvement
• Manage and provide support aligned to all SLA’s
• Coordinate and communicate across Tribes and squads to successfully complete application upgrades
• Understand timeframe requirements and how to communicate them successfully to Stakeholders.
• Able to function independently in order to always make sure to have the correct/required access to all platforms, devices, environments etc. In order to limit time spent on attaining set access in critical situations.
• Proactively contribute & participate in the full solution development lifecycle as a member of a squad / multiple squads as an QA automation specialist engineer
• Actively participate in daily Scrum and project planning meetings.
• Participate and analyse test automation requirements during the requirements analysis phase of technical product & service development, maintenance & optimization (across tribes & squads) – using design specifications and technical documentation (e.g. Business Briefs, User Stories, Architecture & Integration documentation)
• Prepare QA & Automation testing documentation (planning, design, execution and sustainability)
• Develop automation test plans
• Develop and execute automated test scripts using various technologies (automated scripts, test harnesses, SQL scripts etc.)
• Perform various types of automation testing (regression, integration, black box, scalability)
• Evaluate automated test cases and analyse & report results
• Facilitate test plan/case reviews within squads
• Work with product engineers to evaluate software / solution quality & provide recommendations for improvement / enhancement
• Contribute to the design and selection of testing frameworks for business applications
• Deliver all automation & technical testing deliverables on time (always)
• Provide the required project / scrum related information / feedback on deliverables (e.g. progress, tracking, quality etc.)
• Conduct performance monitoring on applications / components of applications on which you’ve designed and executed test scripts / plans
• Produce quality and testing outcome metrics and reports

• Completed BSc / IT Degree or other related field
• 4 – 5 years experience as Automation Test Analyst / QA Engineer

• Azure / Jenkins related skills
• Azure / Git repositories
• Azure / Jenkins pipeline
• Azure YAML pipelines / Jenkins (Pipeline for code)
• Reporting to stakeholders
• Automation related skills
• Test case development
• Test cycles knowledg
• Selenium / Eggplant / py-test related coding knowledge
• Data driven testing
• Model based testing
• Device farm testing
• Reporting to stakeholders
• API Knowledge
• SQL Knowlwdge

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