You should be a focused, self- motivated and dynamic individual. Reporting to the QA Team Lead, you will ensure the testing needs for all supported projects are met in a timely manner and that all software products meet the quality levels set by Business.
As the Technical Tester, you will be responsible for the analysis, planning, execution and reporting of technical test related activities for developed business applications, ensuring that they are effectively tested against agreed functional and non-functional requirements prior to, and post production deployment. You should have strong technical testing, interpersonal and communication skills, working diligently with Development and Product teams to deliver high quality software.
Responsibilities include, but not limited to:
- Review, analyse and identify test requirements based on the functional and design specifications from technical documentation (Business/Development briefs, Use Case Diagrams, Architectures and/or Integration Documents) and ensure full understanding of individual deliverables
- Working with Development & Product teams to understand the requirements and prepare QA documents pertaining to planning, design, implementation, execution and exit reporting
- Proactively raise questions and seek resolution of outstanding clarifications required for testing
- Create, document and maintain test plans/cases around new and existing business requirements and technical specifications
- Execute and evaluate manual/automated test cases and report test results
- Potential writing of custom test solutions (automated scripts, test harnesses, SQL scripts etc.)
- Hold and facilitate test plan/case reviews with Testing, Development and Product Teams
- Ensure that validated deliverables meet functional and design specifications and requirements
- Troubleshoot with development team to identify, replicate, verify and report defects
- Performance, Load and Stress testing
- Setup and maintain Automation for monitoring and regression
- Perform regression and ad-hoc testing of system components potentially affected by system changes
- Actively participate in daily Scrum and project planning meetings
- Communicate with Product Owners and PSA’s to ensure all QA projects are managed, tracked and delivered to customer expectations with highest quality standards, within required timelines
- Provide management with metrics, analysis, and other relevant reports regarding the quality of testing
- Identify any potential quality issues per defined process and escalate immediately to management
- Create and maintain constant communication and healthy working relationships between QA, Development and Product Teams
Even the most experienced talent should have the opportunity to expand and improve their skill sets in many advanced areas of knowledge at this employer.
If you have the right attitude and right aptitude, we can assure you that room for growth at this employer is unprecedented.
They firmly believe in staying up to date with latest technologies, so you’ll be working with the latest tech at international standards.
Whilst this is a very modern and fast paced organisation, the atmosphere is also relaxed. Leave those suits and ties at home, but please wear something.
Our client doesn’t believe that sitting in traffic for hours each day is necessary so working hours are flexible, with core working hours between 9am and 4pm.
To keep you healthy, stress free, and happy – they provide nutritious meals (free of course), serve cappuccinos from their coffee bar, provide free access to the gym, and of course there are free massages from their wellness therapist when you need it the most.
Our client is able to pay top dollar to attract and retain top talent in South Africa and offer excellent end of year bonuses based on company and individual performance. The company is outperforming though, so for now, the rest is up to you.
Work hard and play hard? Head on down to the bar every Friday afternoon, try your hand at Poker on Thursday evenings, enjoy regular team building events such as white river rafting, and so much more.
Most of all they have created a culture second to none. Small on egos; big on energy. Possibly the most employee centric client we’ve come across. Ever.
