Automation Tester

PBT Group; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 640,000; Full time

Job summary

PBT Group has an opportunity for Software Quality Engineers focused on automating tests, validating requirements, and ensuring quality releases. You will work with the QA and development teams to design and implement automated tests, improve the test framework, and contribute to governance and reporting.

The role requires 4+ years in automation testing, Java, Selenium, BDD, ISTQB/ISEB Foundation, and strong SQL scripting skills.

Qualifications

• 4+ years’ relevant experience in automation testing.
• SQL – must be able to write your own scripts.
• Selenium
• BDD practices
• Experience with JIRA
• Java

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the systematic breakdown of business needs into features, stories and epics for delivery.
• Participate in backlog grooming.
• Participate in sprint planning, test estimation and acceptance criteria per story.
• Collaborate with Chapter Lead/Architect to understand test automation approaches.
• Improve test harnesses, automation frameworks and overall platform with the Core Technical Team.
• Promote the automation framework adopted by QA.
• Peer review automated test assets for governance.
• Collaborate with DevOps to investigate and fix bugs.
• Develop automation scripts using the automation framework for execution.
• Ensure automation provides adequate coverage within sprints and supports regression testing.
• Ensure solutions meet architectural/development standards that are reusable and scalable.
• Catalog and align automation test suites with governance.
• Test system or component testing under load and high availability.
• Log defects with defect management tool and capture root cause data.
• Communicate defect resolution progress to QA Lead.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure root cause analysis is performed and recorded.
• Report testing status daily to QA squad.
• Participate in retrospectives and stakeholders showcases.

Skills

Automation tester

SQL

Java

BDD

Selenium

JIRA

4+ years

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Business Administration / Commerce or equivalent

ISTQB/ISEB Foundation

Tools

Selenium

JIRA

Job description

PBT Group has an opportunity for a couple of Software Quality Engineers.

Duties:

• Contribute to the systematic breakdown of the business need into manageable feature(s), stories and epics that can be delivered.

• Participate in the backlog grooming.

• Participate in the sprint planning, test estimation and success criteria per story.

• Discuss the low-level design and functional requirements with the Chapter Lead, Application/Solution Architect to understand the approach to test automation.

• Collaborate with the Core Technical Team to continuously improve the test harness, automation frameworks and overall platform.

• Promote the automation framework and tool adopted by the Enterprise Quality Assurance team.

• Perform adhoc peer review of the automated test assets being maintained by the Software Quality Engineer to ensure conformance of the process and governance.

• Collaborate with the environment DevOps engineer to investigate and correct bugs and inefficiencies.

• Develop the automation scripts using the automation framework for execution.

• Implement the test automation with the objective that it has adequate coverage within the sprint and can be re-used for regression testing.

• Ensure the solution meet the architectural and development standards that are re-usable and scalable.

• Confirm that the automation test suite implemented is appropriately catalogued and aligns with the governance.

• Responsible for testing of the system or component testing under load.

• Responsible for testing of the system or component high-availability and recoverability.

• Log defects using the pre-defined defect management tool and ensure the relevant information is captured accurately that will assist with the root cause analysis.

• Manage the product risk and communicate to the QA Lead the details and any possible mitigation factors.

• Collaborate with the stakeholder to ensure the resolution of a defect and the root cause analysis is performed and recorded.

• Report status of testing to the Quality Assurance squad daily.

• Participate in all retrospective reviews.

• Participate in the showcase to external stakeholders.

Experience:

• Intermediate level

• Automation tester

• SQL – must be able to write your own scripts

• Selenium

• BDD practices

• Experience with JIRA

• 4+ years’ relevant experience

• Java

Qualifications/ Certification:

• A degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Business Administration / Commerce or equivalent

• ISTQB/ISEB Foundation

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