Software Tester - Cape Town Verfied

R 25 000 - 30 000 per month Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 18-01-2017 7:29:22 AM
15-02-2017 7:29:22 AM
Software Tester

Salary: R25000 – R30000 negotiable
Benefits: Medical Aid
Location: Cape Town Woodstock
Employment: Permanent

This position is a great opportunity for a Software Tester looking to grow their experience, skills and career in an agile software development environment. We are looking for a committed person, with at least 3 years experience in software testing, that is prepared to roll up their sleeves and do what it takes to take our products from inception through to delivery.

The successful candidate will work in a close-knit testing team, performing all QA related activities for incoming requests and projects. In addition the candidate will report on the status of tests in the development and production environments to stakeholders.

Responsibilities:
Test planning and design of test scenarios
Test case preparation and maintenance
Test case reviews
Test case execution
Provide estimates for test effort
Logging and tracking of defects through to completion
Test reporting throughout test environments
Testing for production support
Provide regular feedback to developers and stakeholders
Attend daily stand-ups and provide testing progress

Qualifications and skills requirements:
Related IT degree or diploma
ISTQB certified (at least foundation level)
Minimum 3 years experience as a Software tester
Knowledge of test managements tools
Knowledge and experience in agile practices will be advantageous
Experience in working with enterprise systems
SQL experience will be advantageous
Experience in automation tools such as Selenium will be advantageous
Experience with SDLC processes and process improvement
Good communication skills
Good planning and coordination skills
Attention to detail
Ability to function well in a busy, and sometimes, demanding environment
Ability to multi-task
Passion for software testing and the SDLC
Quick response to production support requests
Interest in test automation

About the company
We develop and support end-to-end e-commerce products for international customers, offering over 11 languages. We develop business-to-business systems and back-end systems for customer support, finance, payment process management, risk and fraud management, and content management systems. As a team, we continuously look for ways to improve our products and processes.

Office environment
We offer a great working environment! There are two offices, one in Cape Town City Bowl and one in Woodstock. The offices are modern with state of the art equipment. The Development team is based at the Woodstock office: they develop and maintain end-to-end e-commerce platforms for our international clients, in addition to developing back-end systems and tools for marketing, customer support, finance, payment process management, risk and fraud management and content management systems.

A little about our development house:
We are a new dev house (started 1 Dec 2015), with the backing of an organisation that has been running since 1998. We strive for a start-up culture. We work on international products, with some of our sites offered in over 12 international languages. We believe that there are not many opportunities like this in SA. We work on B2C and B2B products and there is wide exposure to the full e-commerce lifecycle. The User Experience and Design team is 8 people strong (and growing). Not many organisations in SA where UX plays a significant role. We have greatly skilled developers as well as a full testing team on board.

Our most valuable asset is our people and we have grown to a team of nearly 70. We live and are guided by our values. By joining our team offers room for growth and advancement for those showing commitment, initiative and drive into other dimensions of the business, as we believe in creating opportunities for our people. We offer a competitive basic salary plus a medical aid contribution on completion of probationary period.