Psybergate is an IT company that builds bespoke software solutions and provides highly skilled resources to its clients.
We are looking for a Automation Test Analyst / QA Engineer to join our financial services client based in Sandton for a 9-months contract role.
What you will be doing:

  • Follow engineering best practices and continuously improve on engineering knowledge to successfully shift QA capability forward
  • Leverage coding language, expert understanding of how to deploy testing requirements for specific products or services
  • Understand the full technical solution being tested – show interest and capability to run the technical solution and the ability to test the viability of the code being developed
  • Shift from testing features to supporting and being accountable for full product delivery
  • Apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills to solve technical problems
  • Supervise and maintain the organization’s CI/CD pipelines
  • Maintain awareness of application risks and opportunities for improvement
  • Manage and provide support aligned to all SLA’s
  • Coordinate and communicate across Tribes and squads to successfully complete application upgrades
  • Understand timeframe requirements and how to communicate them successfully to Stakeholders.
  • Able to function independently in order to always make sure to have the correct/required access to all platforms, devices, environments etc. In order to limit time spent on attaining set access in critical situations.
  • Proactively contribute & participate in the full solution development lifecycle as a member of a squad / multiple squads as an QA automation specialist engineer
  • Actively participate in daily Scrum and project planning meetings.
  • Participate and analyse test automation requirements during the requirements analysis phase of technical product & service development, maintenance & optimization (across tribes & squads) – using design specifications and technical documentation (e.g. Business Briefs, User Stories, Architecture & Integration documentation)
  • Prepare QA & Automation testing documentation (planning, design, execution and sustainability)
  • Develop automation test plans
  • Develop and execute automated test scripts using various technologies (automated scripts, test harnesses, SQL scripts etc.)
  • Perform various types of automation testing (regression, integration, black box, scalability)
  • Evaluate automated test cases and analyse & report results
  • Facilitate test plan/case reviews within squads
  • Work with product engineers to evaluate software / solution quality & provide recommendations for improvement / enhancement
  • Contribute to the design and selection of testing frameworks for business applications
  • Deliver all automation & technical testing deliverables on time (always)
  • Provide the required project / scrum related information / feedback on deliverables (e.g. progress, tracking, quality etc.)
  • Conduct performance monitoring on applications / components of applications on which you’ve designed and executed test scripts / plans
  • Produce quality and testing outcome metrics and reports

What we are looking for:

  • Completed BSc / IT Degree or other related field
  • 4 – 5 years experience as Automation Test Analyst / QA Engineer

Must have the following skills;

  • Azure / Jenkins related skills
  • Azure / Git repositories
  • Azure / Jenkins pipeline
  • Azure YAML pipelines / Jenkins (Pipeline for code)
  • Reporting to stakeholders
  • Automation related skills
  • Test case development
  • Test cycles knowledg
  • Selenium / Eggplant / py-test related coding knowledge
  • Data driven testing
  • Model based testing
  • Device farm testing
  • Reporting to stakeholders
  • API Knowledge
  • SQL Knowlwdge

Please note that if you do not hear from us within 3 weeks, consider your application unsuccessful.

Please note that most of our positions are remote however candidates should be residing within the traveling distance as circumstance of the opportunity can change.

Desired Skills:

  • Automation test
  • API
  • SQL
  • Azure
  • Jenkins

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