Specialist QA Engineer - Contract

Our Client a global tech firm is seeking a Specialist QA Engineer to join their team in Sandton. They offer stability, growth, attractive rates and a great working environment.

The candidate will be responsible to ensure that a product is completely stable and . this needs to be accomplished by working closely with QA Lead and team, Development & Portfolio teams through early design of test plan, test cases, automation and reporting results to the concerned team for the assigned projects/products.

Requirements

• Review and analyze business requirements, user stories and architecture diagrams
• Gain product and business understanding and apply it in testing activities to improve test coverage and identify defects
• Develop and execute test plan, test cases with the requisite details and capture test evidence.
• Test planning and execution with focus to ensure end to end testing considering enhancements, impacted areas
• Impacted areas analysis and enhancing manual, automation regression test packs
• Analyze, plan and prepare test data to be used for manual, automated test execution
• Adherence to the established processes and best practices.
• Identify defects and track them through the defect life cycle.
• Develop, Maintain, debug automation scripts using existing TestNG based framework for Change and Regression.
• Enhance framework and create reusable methods on need basis.
• Conduct effective self-review of own deliverables and peer reviews.
• Publish test status reports on-demand or as per defined milestones in line with the established framework.
• Work with diverse, distributed teams and collaborate with internal teams.
• Mentor fellow Quality engineers, evangelizing best practices of testing, automation and technical processes.

Qualifications

• 5 – 8 years hands-on experience in Software Testing.
• At least 4 years of hands-on experience in test automation in Selenium with Core Java using standard frameworks (Hybrid, Keyword, TestNG).
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, software QA methodologies, tools and processes.
• Solid understanding of OOPs concepts
• Experience in API Testing using– SoapUI, Postman, Rest assured ; or Database Testing skills with SQL
• Experience on Performance testing tools - Jmeter
• Experienced with version control systems like SVN, Git.
• Know-how to setup Continuous Integration tools will be an advantage.
• Knowledge or working experience of agile methodology
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work with cross functional remote teams.
• Self-starter and proactive with a strong sense of urgency to get the job done on time with quality.
• Demonstrate ability to learn new skills and improve upon current skills quickly within a continually changing, challenging environment.