Closed Senior QA Automation Engineer

Titan Wealth Holdings Limited; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A wealth management firm in Cape Town seeks a Senior QA Automation Engineer to innovate and produce reliable software solutions. The role includes creating test plans, engaging with teams, and enhancing testing frameworks. A flexible work environment promotes a healthy work-life balance, and the firm offers competitive salaries and benefits, including training budgets. Join a collaborative team and contribute to industry innovation.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

20+ days annual leave

Performance-related annual bonus

Training budget allowance

Qualifications

• Solid foundational knowledge of testing fundamentals and best practices.
• Experienced in conducting technical and analytical reviews.
• Experience working as part of an Agile Scrum team.

Responsibilities

• Implement best practices to produce secure and scalable software.
• Proactively engage with the team to develop test plans and cases.
• Assess current testing frameworks and identify areas for growth.

Skills

QA automation

Testing fundamentals

Risk-based testing

Black box testing techniques

Version control (Git)

Tools

Selenium

JMeter

Postman

Job description

Titan Wealth Introduction

In 2021, Titan Wealth set out to create a top-to-bottom, fully integrated service to make wealth management more efficient – and more effective – for individuals, advisers, businesses and investment professionals alike. We’re tackling the fragmentation holding back the wealth management sector, its clients and their advisers – to everyone’s frustration. By vertically integrating separate wealth service components under one roof for the first time, we’ve created a better way of working for everyone’s benefit.

Our values are:

Creativity– We relentlessly seek new ways of thinking and new methods of delivering, so we can keep rewriting the rulebook for wealth services.

Commitment– It takes time, effort and energy to make an impact. There’sa ‘can do’ spirit in everything we do: for advisers, individuals, businesses and professional investors.

Collaboration –Bringing the system together allows us to bring people together more effectively: around ambitions, assets, solutions, performance. We’re inviting people to join us and see for themselves the difference we can make as a whole.

Our Cape Town team: Your needs determine where you work – whether that be in our Cape Town office, your home or anywhere else in South Africa that suits your life. Cape Town is our ‘Tech Hub’ with the majority of our engineering team based there. We encourage a work life balance with flexibility on location and hours

One shared culture

- Multi-disciplinary teams working together on challenges and masterfully delivering award-winning, cutting-edge

solutions.

- An informal atmosphere where leaders are accessible to problem-solve or provide support – in person or remotely.

- Your personal wellbeing is front and center with a commitment to making you feel comfortable.

Learn more about Titan Wealth

Your role as a Senior QA Automation Engineer

• Our QA automation engineers welcome any chance to innovate and use their initiative, but they do so while implementing according to best practices in order to produce tested, secure, reliable, and scalable software and solutions
• You don't just checkboxes, you are required to think outside the box and test accordingly. When you test you try and break things, you think about security and scalability. You consider the bigger picture not just going through the same repetitive flow (automation can do that)
• Monitor the sprint queues and be aware of what is happening in the current sprint and what is planned for future sprints. Proactively contribute to the preparation and planning, story writing, estimation, identifying of risks or simply just giving advice at the right time
• Proactively engage and work as part of a highly effective and collaborative team in order to understand requirements and develop well-considered, and well-structured test plans, test cases or automated scripts.
• Develop a holistic understanding of our proprietary system, business processes and the technology involved; proactively identify any shortcomings in understanding by facilitating the sharing of knowledge, ideas and insights amongst the team and contributing to our knowledge base
• Be a pioneer, help drive our innovation and chart our course with iterative improvement. Proactively assess the current testing frameworks, strategies, and plans. Identifying areas of improvement and growth for the team and how they could impact the broader tech team
• Adhere to Consumer Duty outcomes

Your skills

• Solid foundational knowledge of testing fundamentals and industry best practices
• Excellent understanding of high to low-level test case design and implementation
• Experienced in risk-based testing analysis and design
• Experienced in black box and other experience-based test techniques (error guessing, checklist-based testing, exploratory testing, defect based testing)
• Experienced in conducting both technical and analytical reviews (professionally reviewing peer scripts and test cases ensuring the quality of test-related work)
• Experienced with QA automation and a strong understanding of automation tools such as Selenium, Nightwatch, JMeter, Postman, etc.
• Experienced with REST APIs, JSON and the underlying protocols (HTTP/S, TCP/IP); manually testing against these endpoints using tools or scripting automated tests
• Experienced with designing, implementing, reviewing, maintaining and execution of automated tests and clearly documenting and reporting the results
• Experienced with performance, scale and load-based automated testing
• Experienced with version control (Git) and a good understanding of branching and merging
• Experienced with development tools to troubleshoot and debug web-based applications
• Experienced working as part of an Agile Scrum team
• BONUS: A keen interest in understanding and exploring the latest CI/CD, DevOps, and automated testing technologies
• BONUS: Proven experience using a programming language such as C#, JAVA, JavaScript, PHP, Python etc.
• BONUS: Proven experience using SQL, from simple statements and queries to working with functions and stored procedures

Why work for us?

- Flexible working environment with hybrid work as the focus.

- We believe in a healthy work/life balance, especially with the shift to a remote work focus. We encourage our team members to take time off, refocus, and reenergize and that a healthy separation from work can be maintained.

- We have an open, trusting, empowering, friendly and importantly informal and relaxed environment. Your ideas and experience could contribute to shaping how we work, what we work on and help us continually drive innovation and improvement.

- Competitive salary – we keep up with the latest market trends and strive to pay competitively.

- Competitive holiday leave – 20+ days’ annual leave (earn an extra day for every year worked, up to 3 extra days)

- Performance-related discretionary annual bonus.

- Retirement, Risk, and Medical-Aid contribution – we will contribute to a medical aid of your choosing.

- Training budget allowance for further study or attending conferences, including paid days off to study.

The Titan Wealth Group is firmly committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for everyone who works with us, regardless of their race, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, physical ability or disability, or political affiliation.We believe that having a diverse team allows us to create the best possible outcomes for our clients and team members.We strive to provide equal opportunities in all aspects of the workplace with respect to recruitment and career advancement, pay and benefits, training and development opportunities and other job-related activities