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Quality Assurance Engineer - Cape Town Verfied

Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 04-03-2015 4:02:09 PM
01-04-2015 4:02:09 PM
JOB SUMMARY:
  • Validate software products through the use of requirement validation and systematic test design to develop, apply and maintain quality standards for company products.
  • Develops and executes software test plans. Analyzes and writes test standards and procedures.
  • Scripts and executes automated test cases against both modular and solution environment.
  • Maintains documentation of test results to assist in validation and modification of software.
  • Analyzes test results to ensure existing functionality and recommends corrective action.
  • Executes and provides feedback to engineers, architects, and product management on performance, load and stress tests that determine platform and application capabilities of the end-to-end system.
  • Interacts with Vendors, Customers, and internal Sales and Support organizations.

JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES:
  • Reviews and validates requirements for completeness, both from a product and customer project perspective. Identify test coverage, requirement gaps and risks from the requirements review process, while implementing requirements traceability throughout the project life cycle.
  • Writes and executes detailed test scripts to test the functionality of the proposed system. Develops an understanding of the proposed system and creates related test plans, which include testing schedules and resources required.
  • Preparation and management of complex test environments and test data conditions.
  • Focus on solution oriented approach and able to identify complete end to end testing needs involving multiple parts of a product and system.
  • Manages the validation test phase including executing scripts, monitoring testers, logging and tracking problems found, and regression testing any changes made to the system.
  • Analyse defects functionally and technically before assigning them to Development teams
  • Manage the conversion of manual tests into automated tests using the correct framework
  • Acts as a liaison between the customer and the development team during Acceptance Testing to facilitate problem tracking and resolution. Performs regression testing as necessary before re-releasing code to the customer.
  • Consults with development engineers in resolution of problems.
  • Develop, execute and analyze the output from scripts that capture application and platform quality metrics.
  • Provides the Sales organization sizing support for potential customers requesting ACI products on ACI supported hardware platforms.

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bsc (Computer Science) or other relevant qualification
  • At least 3 years in development/software testing

Highly Desired Qualifications
  • ISEB/ISTQB Certification
  • At least 5 years in development/software testing

Recruiter: CompuJobs