Software Quality Engineer (GMR)

SUMMARY:
The Role:

We are looking for an experienced Software Quality Engineer for a Fixed Term Contract for our client in Johannesburg. An Agile QA Engineer is responsible to participate in feature teams to assist in delivering quality products to the Product Owners.

 

They will participate and give feedback on any activities where QA pr...

POSITION INFO:
The Role:

We are looking for an experienced Software Quality Engineer for a Fixed Term Contract for our client in Johannesburg. An Agile QA Engineer is responsible to participate in feature teams to assist in delivering quality products to the Product Owners.

 

They will participate and give feedback on any activities where QA practices and risks are to be considered from the writing of user stories, pre-development testing notes, execute QA testing activities in accordance to processes and quality guidelines so as to identify defects / quality concerns in projects.

 

Minimum educational level:                                                      

• Completed qualifications in Information Technology and Computer Sciences

 

We require your 5 to 7 yearsâ?? work experience in:

• Proven working experience in software quality assurance
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Banking industry experience, preferably in Retail / Business Banking
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process

Hands-on experience with:

• Both white box and black box testing
• Automated testing tools such as QTP/Selenium
• Scripting language such as Java/Shell/Ruby

 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepare Data requirements and ensure data availability for Test case execution.
• The focus on three types of data: test specific, test reference data to support scenario, application reference data which is needed for the application to start.
• Collaborate in Demo/Pilot to ensure that all the test scenarios have been catered and plan for exploratory testing which can be conducted over and above the automated unit and functional tests.
• Ensure that Integration testing is conducted to ensure that the product works end-to-end. Use of additional testing such as exploratory testing should be conducted to facilitate this.
• Ensure that the necessary test stubs and drivers are created with the assistance from the Developers to facilitate test execution where applicable.
• All tests executed will contain associated evidence of testing. All test evidence will be attached in appropriate tool such as JIRA as and when required.
• All defects associated with the test cases are raised timeously within the test environment, and should be investigated to the point where the impacted downstream system has been established and assigned to correct development resource.
• Defect SLAâ??s per priority must be set up and agreed.
• JIRA / Management Tool should be utilized to keep a track of the tasks assigned to the QA and dashboards should be created to track the desired metrics for quality with the help of Iteration Manager.
• Execution / Velocity targets / Lead time targets as determined by the Iteration Manager are achieved for each iteration/sprint.
• Any risks should be notified to the Iteration Manager and documented in Confluence for teamâ??s reference.
• Ensue scripts are executed.
• Ensure regression testing is executed and process optimization.

 

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