QA Automation Engineer - senior (Core Banking Card and Cryptography)

Investec; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 500,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Sandton is seeking a highly skilled QA Automation Engineer to enhance their Card and Cryptography Tech team. The ideal candidate will be experienced in both front-end and back-end automation, familiar with Agile and DevOps practices, and play a key role in building a test automation framework. The position requires a strong technical background in VB Scripting, API testing, and a commitment to quality and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Solid experience in designing and executing automated tests.
• Maximize test coverage for critical features.
• Experience with defect tracking and reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain test automation frameworks.
• Collaborate with agile teams on test automation.
• Document automated processes including test plans.

Skills

VB Scripting

HP UFT ALM

API Testing

Test Design Techniques

Risk Analysis

Automation mindset

Education

B. Com / degree in IT or equivalent qualification

ISEB / ISTQB Qualifications

Job description

Overview

We are committed to diversity and inclusion when recruiting internally and externally. Preference will be given to employment equity candidates.

Description

Investec Sandton is looking for a highly skilled QA Automation Engineer in the Card and Cryptography Tech team to use their unique skillset and experience to successfully deliver quality across several applications. Skilled in Front-end and Back-end automation designing and utilizing automation frameworks. The QA Automation Engineer will be familiar with working in Agile, DevOps culture and CI / CD environment.

Responsibilities

The role entails working closely with the engineering agile teams and stakeholders to help build a world class test automation framework and tooling to ensure continuous delivery of high-quality code as well as be willing to write code and trouble shoot across the application. As a QA Engineer you would be required to be an active voice about test automation and continuous delivery, fostering the automation mindset across the team. The QA Engineer would work with Product, Support and Client success teams to identify high-impact bugs and coordinate fixes and ways to prevent them through automation with the engineering team.

Experience, skill and capability

• B. Com / degree in IT, or equivalent qualification
• ISEB / ISTQB Qualifications
• Solid experience in VB Scripting, HP UFT ALM and API Testing
• Write, design, and execute automated tests by creating scripts that run testing functions automatically
• Maximize test coverage for the most critical features of the system
• Determine the priority for test scenarios and create execution plans to implement these scenarios
• Write documentation for automated processes including test plans, test procedures, and test cases
• Build / Maintain test automation frameworks
• Log and document bugs in the tracking system
• Set up Continuous Integration
• Solid experience in establishing and maintaining controls for risk and quality
• Defect tracking and reporting tools
• Risk Analysis and Static Techniques
• Test Design Techniques
• Analysis and Reporting
• Change management
• Knowledge of DevOps principles

What We Value

At Investec we seek creative, talented people with passion, energy and stamina, who collaborate unselfishly.