Test Analyst - Cape Town Verfied

Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 10-03-2021 8:58:30 AM
05-05-2021 8:58:30 AM
Duties:

• Improve quality and testing time using automation
• Assist industry vendors and clients during test efforts to drive success of the project
• Conform to quality assurance benchmarks
• Perform system integration testing, regression testing and functional testing.
• Adhere to test metrics and measurements of the deliverables
• Review Non-functional requirements like system performance and fault tolerance and ensure they are met
• Address all audit findings and ensure corrective action is being taken.
• Ensure necessary controls are embedded in the deliverable and test these controls
• Identify and prioritize key risks based on urgency
• Analyze and create test requirements and scenarios with correct coverage and linking to acceptance criteria of user stories
• Prepare and maintain test environments
• Conduct efficient testing and evaluation during the sprint cycles, iteratively evolving the test plans
• Create, Maintain and enhance the test plans repository with deliverables and reporting timelines
• Provide test results and test status to the relevant stakeholders by showing achievement of test results against test metrics
• Track and report on software defects (Azure DevOps Services)
• Create, Maintain and implement Test Automation
• Seek to continuously improve software quality, testing tools, testing processes and testing environments
• Develop a test plan for every deliverable showing how the risks will be mitigated and obtain Test Manager signoff for this plan
• Comply with end to end test processes and standards of the organization.
• Ensure timely delivery of the different testing milestones

Education and Skills:
• Tertiary qualification in Software Testing/Development
• Relevant certifications in Software Testing such as ISTQB Foundation
• 3 plus years’ experience as a Test Analyst
• Experience in a broad range of testing technologies/products, standards, tools and methodologies.
• Experience in the development of test plans.
• 3 plus years’ experience in SQL
• Experience in C#
• Experience in Azure DevOps Services
• Experience testing APIs
• Experience testing Web-based UI
• Experience testing mobile applications developed in Xamarin
• Experience with Automated testing (Development, Execution, Analysis and Reporting)
• Strong verbal and communication skills

Desirable requirements
• ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst or ISTQB Advanced Technical
• Experience with Performance testing
• ITIL Foundation
• Supervision / Control / Influence
• Under guidance and evaluation of Test Manager
• Within general guidelines or functions as defined in the job description

Key activities and / or behaviours that are key to the successful performance of the role
• Monitor and report on processes related to (but not limited to): Regression Testing, System Integration Testing, Functionality testing
• Providing information for and compilation of Application Development Dashboards
• Coordinate and conduct testing
• Report on current defects
• Remediation of defects within sprint cycles
• Conform to Quality Assurance procedures
• Test Automation
• Manage and maintain Wiki
• Cohesive relations with the project team

(3 YEARS FIXED-TERM CONTRACT)