Job Overview
Reporting
to the Head of Quality Engineering, the position holder will oversee and
perform Automated testing on all applications from the earliest opportunity and
with precision before any application is deployed to production.
Communicating all test issues effectively to the QA manager. Managing the daily
workload of a Tester and giving direction on projects. Participate in the test
automation tool selection and adoption process; Develop and execute automated
test suites using COTS and custom tools; Integrate test suites into the test
management system and custom test harnessed. Perform code reviews for junior
SDETs.
Responsibilities
Technical:
- Produce & manage level test
plans, estimate effort and resource test plans
- Monitor changes to scope during the
development cycle and re-evaluate plans and resource accordingly
- Manage expectations of when testing
activities will be complete mitigating risks to key milestones
- Liaise with the relevant
departments to ensure key infrastructure (environments, interfaces &
access) is set-up to enable all required testing activities
- Manage the UAT process by
supporting clients to establish key scenarios to test their business
processes to maximize benefit of the UAT process ensuring full acceptance
and integration of the software solution
- Assign work to QA Engineers and
manage successful completion of work to set deadlines
- Manage processes and procedures
locally within the test team and with external teams across the SDLC to
drive and implement improvements to optimize efficiency and first-time
pass rate
- Measure, develop and optimize
quality of team outputs and performance.
- Build test scripts from various
sources including functional specifications, technical specifications and
sessions with developers and designers
- Review requirements,
specifications, user documentation, help files, and other project
documentation to assure quality of the products and tests to be developed;
i.e., perform manual static testing.
- Select and develop appropriate test
automation tools, applying the latest techniques in test automation; e.g.,
data-driven testing.
- Use risk-driven techniques to
develop, maintain, and execute automated test suites for various Software
Cafeteria products; i.e., perform automated dynamic testing.
- Execute automated tests and
validate the results.
- Work with the Development team to
capture and reuse automated Unit Test Cases, Test Stubs and Drivers, and
other Development test objects.
- Work with the Development team to
create and maintain an automated nightly build verification (“smoke”)
test.
- Ensure proper version control and
configuration management of all test objects developed and test
environments used.
- To facilitate in-house performance
testing ensuring that all key infrastructure, data requirements are met as
well as establishing the best tools for the job
- Identify key components of the
system that are suitable for automation and implement approach to deliver
benefits through automation.
- Experience with Continuous
Integration tool (e.g. Jenkins)
Qualifications
- ISTQB Foundation Level Certification
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer
Science or Related field Experience
- Relevant work experience in
development and/or testing role.
- Understanding of agile software
development Understanding of web service integration (e.g.: REST and SOAP
XML).
- Experience with Cloud Technology
(e.g.: AWS , GCP, Azure) Experience with NoSQL such as MongoDB Experience
with SQL/ Relational Database (eg:PostgreSQL), automation, CI/CD, DevOps,
testing, JavaScript, selenium, Jenkins, Agile software, cloud, NoSQL
Familiarity with software packing tools (.exe, .deb, .rpm, Docker…)
- Excellent verbal and written
communication skills
- Good development/scripting skills
in common languages like JAVA, Kotlin, Python, Ruby etc.
- Database skills, mainly in MySQL
- Good understanding of object-oriented
programming, J2EE architecture, .NET, etc.
- Knowledge of automated testing
tools, like LoadRunner, HP ALM 11, Rational Robot, Selenium, Appium etc.
- Proven ability to manage and
prioritize multiple, diverse projects simultaneously
- Experienced in Manual Testing at
levels of Unit & System covering Functional tests
- Have strong SQL skills and be able
to confidently test batch processes
How To Apply