Software Quality Analyst Engineer

Nebula; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leave days

Remote work

Home office allowance

Microsoft courses

Well-being program

Hackathons

Job summary

1Nebula is hiring a QA Automation Engineer to build a robust testing infrastructure for cloud-native mobile and web applications. You will drive automation strategies, contribute to release readiness, and develop metrics to detect defects early in the development lifecycle.

You will work across teams to promote a quality-first culture, focusing on automated regression testing and integration with CI/CD, while enabling faster time to market and reduced risks.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in software testing with at least 2 years in automation.
• Experience setting up Automation Frameworks for testing.
• Strong understanding of SDLC and QA best practices.

Responsibilities

• Build robust automated testing infrastructure for cloud-native mobile and web apps.
• Move beyond manual testing to automation and testing strategies.
• Develop metrics to detect defects early in development.
• Contribute to release readiness with test and regression plans.
• Promote quality-first culture across DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Automation testing

CI/CD

Team collaboration

Cloud technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Selenium

Postman

Microsoft App Center

SQL

Job description

Do you want to be part of a dynamic team constantly challenging the status quo and finding "smarter" ways of doing things? If you answered yes, keep reading.

Who Are We?

1Nebula is a next-generation SaaS Technology Business focused on providing businesses with cloud & technology expense management services and tools to accelerate their cloud journey.

We hire amazing people from across South Africa, making our diverse group of team members, called N48Xers, a force to be reckoned with.

Learn more about our people brand by watching our culture videos:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkUpUigUdM&t=1s
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVk3_vVyrW0

Job Opportunity at 1Nebula:

You will be building a robust software testing infrastructure for our world-class cloud-native mobile and web applications while tracking quality across the SDLC.

What You will do within this role (Your key responsibilities):

• Become an effective member of the technical teams enabling quality across the SDLC.
• Ability to move beyond manual functional testing and focusyourefforts on automation and testing strategies.
• Be a key player in authorizing application release, having tested the product against your test and regression plans.
• Develop metrics that detect software defects early in the development cycle.
• Should be proactively involved in the requirements process to help and guide development teams towards proper direction.
• Focus more on automated regression testing on critical areas such as key software functionality.
• Move QA towards leveraging automation tools to automate testing wherever possible.
• Should facilitate and encourage communication, collaboration, and optimization across DevOps by being a “quality-first” evangelist.
• Focus on continuous integration toidentifydefects early in the development lifecycle.
• Set up early warning detection and health systems to notify when something goes wrong in Production.
• Integrating a fully automated continuous testing process into the SDLC for a successful continuous delivery process that minimizes risks, reduces costs, and accelerates time to market.
• Be a self-starter with the ability to produce results with minimal supervision.
• Follow QA best practices & have used Selenium or other Automated Test Frameworks

More about You (Our requirements for the role):

Alt hough we believe in the potential of others more than anything else there are some minimum requirements we would look for so consider these before sending us your application

• You are driven andpassionate aboutcloud technologies.
• Hold a relevant tertiary qualification with at least 3 years’ experience in software testing with a minimum of 2years' experiencein automation experience
• You enjoy being part of a team that is constantly pushing themselves whilst having fun.
• Have technical knowledge and experience with setting up Automation Frameworks for testing
• You work hard and play hard with epic MS teams backgrounds for Friday Fun-day check-ins.
• You have great banter and an insatiable curiosity for all things tech
• Experience in the following Tools & Technologies would be an advantage

• Selenium or similar automation language
• Postman
• Microsoft App center or similar mobile test automation
• SQL

Our Amazing Perks!

• Enjoy 20 Leave days a year plus a “mulligan day” each quarter after meeting all your deliverables. That’s 4 extra leave days annually!
• High spec laptops and equipment for you to comfortably work remotely.

• A once off at home office allowance to set up your home office.
• Flexible working hours. We work on a flexible schedule from Monday to Friday where you can make the hours work for you.
• Access to our Well-being program and Employee support services – we believe in work/life balance being of utmost importance for you and your family so this perk is for them too.
• Grow your skills and learn something new with paid for Microsoft courses and certifications.
• Take up a hobby and unlock a training allowance every 2 years to do something non-work related.
• Give back by participating in our Culture and Social Responsibility initiatives.
• Free Gap cover and a relaxed/hybrid work environment.
• Hackathons (If you find yourself in office, we’ll provide the pizza!)