Stable work income! Stability at an established company doesn’t matter what the economy shows! Never get bored when you join this young, dynamic, hyper-growth company. Are you smart, creative and hard working then they will keep to their promise that you will never get bored as long as you prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.
They need someone who is both strong in root cause analysis and driving to action – a thinker and doer! Passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering world-class customer experience. They are a fast growing, quick moving environment and looking for someone who is a entrepreneurial, thrives under change, and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster. You will be at the cutting edge of developing new concept. In short, imagine you can think like an owner of the business.
The Role
A QA Analyst’s job duties include planning, designing, and evaluating products, as well as collaborating with production management. The QA Analyst makes sure that the finished product can be identified easily and tested thoroughly. Testing returned units, collecting data, and analysing patterns are also among the test engineer's duties.
Work closely with the Test Lead to ensure quality is implemented as part of the processes and that quality standards are adhered to.
Responsibilities
• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs
• Perform regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Develop status reports based on test completion/findings and communicate these to team leaders including any impact on the overall project plan
• Perform all tasks with attention to detail
• Read and comprehend requirements for testing
• Create test plans and test cases per business requirements
• Provide daily & weekly status test reporting to test lead
• Troubleshoot issues experienced during testing
• Understand test case management, creation and execution
• Understanding of UI and backend testing
• Ability and experience with prioritisation of tasks, identification of items requiring escalation
Requirements
Education and Experience
• Degree / Diploma in computer science/software engineering/related technical discipline or 5 years Technical backend testing applications solid experience.
• Minimum 3 years of Software testing (backend and front end)
• ISTQB/ISEB qualification will be an advantage
Process and Communication
• Experience in testing multiple platforms, including desktop, web and mobile-based systems
• Experience managing testing throughout the SDLC
• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Additionally, the role requires a proven ability to read and understand test requirements and list out the logical testing path
• Self-motivated with strong capability of fast learning
• Ability to work efficiently both independently and within the team
• Ability to analyse and solve complex problems quickly and creatively
• Quick learner and can adapt to multiple project environments in a shorter time frame
• Attend and offer testing insights during design, planning and grooming sessions
• Analyse requirements and identify test criteria
• Ensure the solution elements match the acceptance criteria
• Employ both manual and technical testing techniques to ensure that user experience and functionality testing is covered
• Document results where deemed necessary
Tools and Technology
• Experience working with any defect tracking tool
• Strong background with API and web testing
• Exposure to mobile, frontend and backend automation will be advantageous.
• Basic software development skill/experience is highly advantageous
• Basic understanding of backend logistics systems highly advantageous
• Experience with Jmeter, Postman, soapUI or any API testing tool advantageous.
• An understanding of Mobile and Web architecture
• Intermediate SQL knowledge/experience
• Robot Framework, Selenium, Appium test automation highly advantages
The Environment
• Employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
• We are short on ego and high on output.
• We are doers and not only thinkers, it's all in the execution after all.
• We love what we do and what we are creating.
We seek to employ Exceptional Minds, people who are:
• Experts at DOING, they can not only design but also execute;
• Analytical, able to use data to make decisions.
• Letting data decide but not consume;
• Competitive. Although innovation is important, GREAT requires a lot of work. This does not happen only in business hours.
• Curious. Always questioning the status quo;
• Not averse to risk;
• Business smart. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input;
• Self-directed, taking action based on own initiative;
• Collaborative.
• Thorough;
• User-focused, always trying to understand a product from the users perspective;
• Able to communicate clearly and not afraid to voice an opinion, no matter how unpopular.