Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

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Cape Town, Western Cape
Permanent
Full-time

16 days ago

Involvement in user story definition and test scenarios: Lead test scenario definition,
integrating ATDD/BDD principles and ensuring comprehensive test coverage.

Support with issue reproduction and resolution: Troubleshoot complex issues across

environments and coordinate with developers and DevOps to address root causes
effectively.

Collaboration with developers and DevOps: Build strong collaboration with DevOps and

developers, ensuring smooth integration and troubleshooting across environments.

Cross-Team Collaboration: Lead quality discussions with cross-functional teams, ensuring

alignment on quality objectives and timelines.

Agile/Scrum practices: Drive QA contributions to Agile ceremonies, embedding quality into

every sprint milestone.

Continuous Improvement Initiatives: Lead retrospectives, driving meaningful changes to

QA and development workflows.

Risk Management and Impact Assessment: Proactively mitigate risks through root cause

analysis and recommend preventive measures.

Quality standards and defect prevention: Own quality metrics and proactively implement

measures to enhance system reliability and user experience.

Customer Advocacy: Advocate for customer-focused quality improvements and ensure

testing aligns with user needs.

Automation creation and maintenance: Define and refine automation approaches, owning

the setup and maintenance of robust, scalable automation suites.

Automation strategies and tools: Lead strategy definition and introduce innovative

solutions to improve testing efficiency and coverage.

Tool and Framework Development: Identify gaps in tools and recommend or develop

custom solutions to enhance efficiency.

Metrics and performance reporting: Own and report on quality and automation metrics,

offering actionable recommendations to improve efficiency.

Governance and QA principles: Define and enforce governance standards, ensuring QA

principles are consistentA minimum of 5 years hands-on automation testing experience.
Computer Science related degree, diploma, or similar qualification.
ISTQB Foundation Level
Experience in working with agile teams and successfully delivering agile based software
projects.
Utilizing dev tools like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
Ability to write integration and UI tests.
Experience using automation frameworks and tools like Playwright, Selenium (NOT IDE),
Nunit.
Experience in using Typescript/JavaScript, C#, JSON.
API Testing using Postman or in code.
Experience with designing, creating, and maintaining automation frameworks.
Experience of agile and the Scrum or Kanban methodology
Advanced Experience with test automation tools and strategies
Advanced Experience of using BDD effectively
Advanced proven experience with C#/Java and JavaScript
Experience with any of the following Frameworks: WebDriver (not IDE) / WebDriver.IO /
Cypress / TestCafe / RestShap / Rest Assured
Experience with CI/CD pipelines for continuous testing.
Dedicated to staying updated on the latest testing tools and technologies, with the ability
to adapt to new frameworks as needed.

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