Senior Quality assurance engineer

WMS Secure; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

WMS Secure is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer in Cape Town to enhance testing processes through automation. The role involves collaborating with development and DevOps teams to ensure high-quality software delivery, while leading initiatives on continuous improvement and quality metrics. This position requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in automation testing along with relevant technical skills to drive effective testing strategies and framework development.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 years hands-on automation testing experience.
• Experience in working with agile teams and successfully delivering agile based software projects.
• Comfortable with source control tools, like GitLab.
• Dedicated to staying updated on the latest testing tools and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, plan, set up, monitor, maintain, troubleshoot, and report on advanced automated testing processes.
• Build strong collaboration with DevOps and developers, ensuring smooth integration and troubleshooting across environments.
• Lead quality discussions with cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment on quality objectives and timelines.
• Drive QA contributions to Agile ceremonies, embedding quality into every sprint milestone.

Skills

Automation testing experience

Integration and UI tests

Advanced test automation tools

Communication skills

Education

Computer Science related degree, diploma, or similar qualification

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Postman

GitLab

Job description

Job title : Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Senior Quality Engineer will undertake the responsibility for analyzing, planning, setting up,

monitoring, maintaining, troubleshooting, and reporting on advanced automated testing

processes across diverse platforms. This individual should possess advanced test automation

skills and work closely and proactively with the Development and DevOps Teams to deliver

superior quality software while continuously enhancing test effectiveness and efficiency.

integrating ATDD / BDD principles and ensuring comprehensive test coverage.

• Support with issue reproduction and resolution : Troubleshoot complex issues across

environments and coordinate with developers and DevOps to address root causes

effectively.

• Collaboration with developers and DevOps : Build strong collaboration with DevOps and

developers, ensuring smooth integration and troubleshooting across environments.

• Cross-Team Collaboration : Lead quality discussions with cross-functional teams, ensuring

alignment on quality objectives and timelines.

• Agile / Scrum practices : Drive QA contributions to Agile ceremonies, embedding quality into

every sprint milestone.

• Continuous Improvement Initiatives : Lead retrospectives, driving meaningful changes to

QA and development workflows.

• Risk Management and Impact Assessment : Proactively mitigate risks through root cause

analysis and recommend preventive measures.

• Quality standards and defect prevention : Own quality metrics and proactively implement

measures to enhance system reliability and user experience.

• Customer Advocacy : Advocate for customer-focused quality improvements and ensure

testing aligns with user needs.

• Automation creation and maintenance : Define and refine automation approaches, owning

the setup and maintenance of robust, scalable automation suites.

• Automation strategies and tools : Lead strategy definition and introduce innovative

solutions to improve testing efficiency and coverage.

• Tool and Framework Development : Identify gaps in tools and recommend or develop

custom solutions to enhance efficiency.

• Metrics and performance reporting : Own and report on quality and automation metrics,

offering actionable recommendations to improve efficiency.

• Governance and QA principles : Define and enforce governance standards, ensuring QA

principles are consistently applied across teams.

Technical leadership and mentoring : Mentor Intermediate and Junior QA Engineers while

actively participating in hiring and skills assessments.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities. You may be required

to complete other reasonable duties to achieve business objectives.

Essential skills you’ll bring to the table

A minimum of 5 years hands-on automation testing experience.

Computer Science related degree, diploma, or similar qualification.

Experience in working with agile teams and successfully delivering agile based software

projects.

Utilizing dev tools like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.

Comfortable with source control tools, like GitLab.

Ability to write integration and UI tests.

Experience using automation frameworks and tools like Playwright, Selenium (NOT IDE),

Nunit.

API Testing using Postman or in code.

Experience with designing, creating, and maintaining automation frameworks.

Communication skills - ability to communicate with clients, peers and line management

Experience of agile and the Scrum or Kanban methodology

Advanced Experience with test automation tools and strategies

Advanced Experience of using BDD effectively

Experience with any of the following Frameworks : WebDriver (not IDE) / WebDriver.IO /

Cypress / TestCafe / RestShap / Rest Assured

Experience with CI / CD pipelines for continuous testing.

Dedicated to staying updated on the latest testing tools and technologies, with the ability

to adapt to new frameworks as needed.

Desirable skills you’ve got up your sleeve

It would be great if you also have some of the following skills :

ISTQB Advanced Level Certifications

Previous exposure to Microsoft Azure DevOps & VSTS

Experience with actively developing & managing Docker infrastructure.

Knowledge of Message Broker Systems

Comfortable with using Kibana, Grafana

Capable of reading and writing Mongo collections.

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