Senior Software Qa Engineer Remote

Hustle Consulting (Pty) Ltd; Wes-Kaap; Presencial; ZAR 600.000 - 900.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Hustle Consulting (Pty) Ltd is seeking a Senior Software QA Engineer to join the team and uphold high software quality. You will define QA processes, lead automation efforts and own product acceptance testing throughout sprints.

Key responsibilities include collaborating with product stakeholders, training the team on QA practices, and expanding testing depth as the product evolves. Strong experience with Selenium or Playwright is expected.

Formación

• 5+ years in test analysis, design and execution at a senior level.
• Experience balancing hands-on and tool-based testing activities.
• Collaborates effectively with knowledgeable colleagues.
• Defined or contributed to a QA framework for a team.
• Comfortable working in Linux environments and with databases.

Responsabilidades

• Maintain the high quality of the company’s software.
• Define, monitor and improve QA processes, architectures, policies, standards and tools across the SDLC.
• Own product acceptance testing and execution of QA activities.
• Enhance test data as features are rolled out.
• Collaborate with product stakeholders to adapt QA as needed.
• Train team members on QA control processes and policies.
• Overlap acceptance testing handover from customer success to QA.
• Define and maintain product acceptance testing strategy and expand testing depth.
• Stay aligned with stakeholder expectations and QA leadership support.
• Execute day-to-day testing for each sprint and automation strategy.

Conocimientos

Test analysis

Hands-on testing

Test automation

SQL

Git

Postman

Selenium

Playwright

Docker

CI/CD

Cloud familiarity

Herramientas

Selenium WebDriver

Cucumber

Playwright

GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket

Postman

Docker

SQL (MySQL/Postgres)

CI/CD pipelines

AWS/Azure/GCP

Linux

Descripción del empleo

Senior Software QA Engineer

Our client is looking to hire a Senior Software QA Engineer to join their team.

Duties & Responsibilities

What you will be doing:

1. Maintain the high quality of the company's software.
2. Define, monitor and improve upon the Quality Assurance process and practices, including our quality assurance architecture, frameworks, policies, standards and tools at all stages of the SDLC.
3. Execute the quality control process, including taking ownership of product acceptance testing.
4. Enhance test data as new product features are established.
5. Collaborate with product stakeholders to ensure that problems discovered will be investigated and the quality assurance process will be adapted to address these problems moving forward.
6. Train the team members on quality assurance control process and policies.
7. Initiate and own the handover of acceptance testing from the customer success team to Quality Assurance.
8. Define, document and maintain the product acceptance testing strategy / approach and expand the depth of testing as your product knowledge improves.
9. Keep abreast of the expectations of the product stakeholders, engaging with the Quality Assurance Manager for assistance in managing these expectations.
10. Execute day-to-day testing related to deliverables planned for each sprint.
11. Define and execute the Predictor IBP test automation strategy, considering any needs for alignment with the Predictor IA engineering team as well as the broader company automation strategy.
12. Grow and continually update your product knowledge.
13. Take the Quality Assurance Manager with you on the journey.

Desired Experience & Qualification

What we are looking for:

1. 5 or more years of experience in test analysis, design and execution at a senior level.
2. Proven experience in balancing between hands-on and tool-based testing activities.
3. Confident in working with knowledgeable individuals.
4. Meticulous at planning for, and recording the outcome of meetings and discussions pertaining to the product engineering process.
5. Previously been responsible for, or been involved in the process, of defining a Quality Assurance framework for a team, or have a clear understanding of what this requires.

Knowledge that will support your success in the role:

1. Managing test environments installed on a Linux operating system.
2. Managing test data in flat files and in MySQL/Postgres RDBMS using SQL DDL and DML.
3. Using Git repositories to manage source code, including experience in using a Git platform such as GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket in an IDE as well as on the command-line.
4. Using Postman to explore, document and test APIs.
5. A proven track record in building automated acceptance tests using tools such as Selenium WebDriver with Cucumber and/or Microsoft Playwright.
6. Having performed testing within a Java development team.
7. Using and maintaining GitHub or GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
8. Using and maintaining Docker containers within a cloud environment such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform.

Skills and aptitudes:

1. High level of attention to detail.
2. Able to prioritize your own work within agreed deadlines and manage stakeholder expectations where necessary.
3. Ability to think quickly, be agile, solution driven, innovative, problem solve and have the confidence to make decisions.
4. Great communication skills.