Specialist QA Engineer

Absa Ins & Fin Advise(Pty; Johannesburg; Presencial; ZAR 480.000 - 760.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Absa Ins & Fin Advise(Pty is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to design and implement automated tests across front-end, back-end, and integration layers. The role covers run and change contexts with emphasis on achieving quantifiable test coverage and reliable quality metrics.

You will actively participate in daily Scrum, collaborate with product engineers, and help shape testing frameworks and best practices across squads. A Bachelor’s in IT is required.

Formación

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or equivalent.
• Experience as QA automation specialist engineer in SDLC.
• Experience in Scrum and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsabilidades

• Participate in full solution development lifecycle as QA automation specialist.
• Contribute to daily Scrum and project planning.
• Analyse and capture automation requirements from specifications.
• Prepare QA & automation testing documentation (planning, design, execution).
• Develop and execute automated test scripts using various technologies.
• Perform regression, integration, and performance testing as needed.
• Report results, metrics, and provide improvement recommendations.

Conocimientos

QA Automation

Scrum

SQL

Test scripting

Educación

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Herramientas

SQL

Test harnesses

Automation frameworks

Descripción del empleo

Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together...one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Belonging at Absa

Absa is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from suitably qualified individuals from diverse backgrounds. In support of our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) commitments and Employment Equity objectives, preference may be given to candidates from underrepresented designated groups, including persons with disabilities. We encourage applicants who may require reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process to let us know so that appropriate support can be provided.

Job Summary

Design automation testing plans and develop automation test scripts for multiple technical products / services (pre, during & post deployment) in both 'Run & Change' contexts and align to chosen application testing frameworks & guidelines. Testing may apply to all or a combination of the following front-end, back-end, integration, performance, scalability and regression testing of solutions. This entails full responsibility for ensuring products are protected through quantifiable test coverage & metrics.

Job Description

QA Engineering

• Proactively contribute & participate in the full solution development lifecycle as a member of a squad / multiple squads as an QA automation specialist engineer
• Actively participate in daily Scrum and project planning meetings.
• Participate and analyze test automation requirements during the requirements analysis phase of technical product & service development, maintenance & optimization (across tribes & squads) - using design specifications and technical documentation (e.g. Business Briefs, User Stories, Architecture & Integration documentation)
• Prepare QA & Automation testing documentation (planning, design, execution and sustainability)
• Develop automation test plans
• Develop and execute automated test scripts using various technologies (automated scripts, test harnesses, SQL scripts etc.)
• Perform various types of automation testing (regression, integration, black box, scalability)
• Evaluate automated test cases and analyse & report results
• Facilitate test plan / case reviews within squads
• Work with product engineers to evaluate software / solution quality & provide recommendations for improvement / enhancement
• Contribute to the design and selection of testing frameworks for business applications
• Deliver all automation & technical testing deliverables on time (always)
• Provide the required project / scrum related information / feedback on deliverables (e.g. progress, tracking, quality etc.)
• Conduct performance monitoring on applications / components of applications for which you've designed and executed test scripts / plans
• Produce quality and testing outcome metrics and reports

DevOps

• Follow engineering best practices and continuously improve on engineering knowledge to successfully shift our QA capability forward
• Leverage coding language understanding & expertise to deploy testing requirements for specific products / services
• Understand the full technical solution that is being tested - show interest and capability to run the technical solution & the ability to test the viability of the code being developed
• Shift from testing features to supporting & being accountable for full product delivery

Risk & Governance

• Ensure compliance with technical risk and governance requirements
• Ensure work is compliant with automation testing frameworks and standards
• Proactively identify and communicate risks ahead of need
• Participate in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Incident Management processes as required and implement mitigating actions

People

• Participate in peer reviews & continuously develop automation testing awareness & capability across squads

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology