Functional Tester - Rosebank Verfied

Salary Negotiable Rosebank, Gauteng Rosebank, Gauteng more than 14 days ago 19-02-2015 6:29:06 AM
19-03-2015 6:29:06 AM
Our client in the Banking Sector based in Johannesburg is seeking a creative, optimistic, passion for software testing, solve testing issues and team oriented individual for a Functional Tester position. To assist in the creation and delivery of useable, working software. Ensure that the requirements, design and resulting implementation address the business need, safeguard the end-user experience, system stability, appropriate security as well as adhere to applicable compliance and regulatory requirements.

Job Description:
• Participate in planning sessions and daily stand up meetings.
• Help to define user stories and their acceptance criteria to know if they satisfy user requirements.
• Identify and document test cases, scenarios or test scripts that validate the meeting of acceptance criteria for each use story.
• Perform sanity and exploratory as well as usability testing for each build.
• Assist the team with other tasks other than those related to testing where required.
• Contribute to the expanding of automated testing foot print.
• Contribute to the improvement of the DAD approach and supporting tools.
• Contribute to improving of Agile QA processes in the division.
• Demonstrate the delivered build/functionality to the business after each sprint.

Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Informatics or equivalent.
• ISQTB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing.
• Agile Testing Certification.

Experience and Knowledge:
• 3+ year’s software testing experience.
• At least 1 year in an agile environment.
• Banking (preferably) or Financial Services experience.
• Previous experience in either development, systems administration or applications support would be beneficial.
• Understand Agile Testing methodologies.
• Good understanding of Test Design Techniques.
• Must be able to self-organise.
• Must have the ability to simplify tasks.
• Able to provide continuous feedback to the team.
• Excellent oral and written communication in English.
• Strong Team work as well as interpersonal skills.
• Able to adapt quickly to change.
• Show a good technical grasp of IT infrastructure, networking and application support.

Tools and Technologies:
• HP Quality Center, JIRA.
• Exposure to Test Automation tools (Quick Test Professional, Sellenium).
• XML, SoapUI, Hibernate.
• Exposure to JavaScript based frameworks for dynamic web applications (e.g. angularjs).
• SQL Understanding & Experience.