Qa Tester - Cape Town
Salary Negotiable
Cape Town, Western Cape
Cape Town,
Western Cape
more than 14 days ago
02-12-2016 4:00:06 PM
30-12-2016 4:00:06 PM
Software Quality Engineer - API
Century City, Cape Town
Salary negotiable + excellent benefits
Job Description- The Software Quality Engineer performs functional and automated tests using test scripts and/or test suites.
- The SQE is proficient in blackbox, whitebox and regression testing requiring no purpose supervision.
- An element of guidance and mentorship of less experienced team members is expected.
- Required to drive test process and strategy defined by the QA Manager.
Responsibilities
- Extract critical application functional requirements and User Scenarios to add to the Regression Test Plan and/or Smoke Test Plan
- Inform QA Manager, Software Development Manager and Scrum Team of delays in testing activities or problems arising from variances
- Investigates new ways to improve the current test processes with the QA Manager
- Track test progress within the team by extracting reports in Team Foundation Server and communicating progress to Scrum Team
- Take ownership of test within the Scrum Team
- Extract Test Plan status report in Regression (Staging) and identify the test scenarios with status Blocked and Fail and report to QA Manager and Scrum Team
Skills & Knowledge
- In depth understanding of testing methodologies, standards, SDLC and development methodologies
- Ability to write complex SQL queries
- Good understanding of Test Case Management Tools, in particular, Microsoft Test Manager.
- Excercises independent judgement after considering alternatives
- Coordinates own tasks and less senior QA team members to meet project schedules
Minimum qualifications
- National Diploma (NDIP): Information Technology or Bachelor of Science Degree or 3 years IT work experience
- International ISTQB Foundation Certification in Testing
- ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst or ISTQB Advanced Technical Test Analyst
- Advantageous: Certified Agile Tester
- Minimum 5 years Test Experience including Mobile QA Testing experience
Preferred Skills and Behaviours
- Basic knowledge of HTTP, CSS and HTTP Web Servers
- Basic understanding of test automation tools
- Basic understanding of Automation Frameworks
- Good understanding of Continuous Integration Tools & Software
- Broad understanding of service layer protocols including testing the API
- Basic knowledge of JavaScript, JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and SOAP & REST services