Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Boardroom Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 500 000 - 750 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst in Cape Town. This position requires at least 5 years of software experience, emphasizing agile methodologies and teamwork. The role involves developing test plans, executing tests across various platforms, and mentoring junior team members. Ideal candidates are problem-solvers who enjoy learning and adapting quickly to new challenges. The firm values strong communication and the ability to defend the quality of the end product.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of full-time experience in making software.
• Experience in agile environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Understand product, business and user context.
• Identify and prioritize product risks for testing.
• Develop acceptance criteria and test cases.
• Perform exploratory testing and capture results.
• Collaborate with the team on test execution.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Skills

Agile software development

Communication skills

Mentoring junior team members

Team collaboration

Detail orientation

Time management

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Independent learning

Job description

About the job Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities

• Understand product, business and user context
• Identify and prioritise product risks for testing
• Test Case Development
  • Collaborate with the rest of the team (including the client) to develop acceptance criteria
  • Create Cucumber feature files in collaboration with software engineers on the team, so they can automate those tests
• Test Execution
  • Exploratory testing
  • Capture test reporting (test evidence as well as defects found + steps to reproduce)
  • Collaborate with the rest of the team to help interpret automated test results to help the team maintain the underlying test suite.
  • Bigger blocks of manual testing for release candidates
• Work with PO and the rest of the team to deliver tested software
• Test planning for the project: initial plan as well as on-going response to changing reality
• Test planning per sprint
• Collaborate with engineers & other team members on both scales of planning
• Time management and prioritisation: working on multiple projects at once (we aim for a max of 2 simultaneous projects, but this is not always possible)
• Keep current with industry and technology
  • Research tools and techniques
  • Suggest process improvement internally
• General
  • Defend the quality of the end product. Be able to clearly and logically lay out the reasoning behind your position so clients and team members can understand.
  • Handle a variety of platforms: Android, iOS, Web

Skills

• Comfortable with an agile software development environment.
• Communication skills that allow you to collaborate and explain your process, approach and motivation to various stakeholders.
• Mentoring junior team members.
• Able to work well in a team as well as individually.
• Zoom out to the big picture and zoom in on detail.
• Estimate effort on tasks, prioritise work and deliver to deadlines but manage expectations pro-actively rather than working overtime to get the work done.
• Excited about learning, pushing technical limits and finding new solutions.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• A propensity to fail fast and learn fast and share both failure and learning with others.
• Prioritising learning over being right. Understanding others rather than becoming defensive.
• Demonstrated ability to learn independently.
• Understanding the value of the client as part of the team rather than us & them.

Qualifications

Minimum 5 years of full-time experience in making software (whether as dev, PM or other roles)

Nice to have

If you tick all the required boxes, the following things will give you an edge:

• If you've started your own business before
• If you've built something of your own
• Active contributions to open source projects
• A preference for a variety of work and horizontal training over deep specialist skills.