Quality Assurance Automation Engineer needed at IndSAfri

Description 

• To Lead the Test Implementation in accordance with the agreed Quality Assurance principles and standards in order to manage the Product risk and inter-dependencies during the Product Life-Cycle. Ensure alignment across Business Analysis, Development, Quality Assurance and Environment to optimise the testing efficiencies across the Product delivery stack. Ensure team effectiveness and healthy team dynamics.

Job Responsibilities

• Build a deep understanding of the business need in order to contribute to the ongoing value proposition.
• Participate in the sprint planning, and success criteria per story/epic.
• Participate in the Squad backlog grooming.
• Facilitate the daily stand-up where necessary and manage the issues raised by the Software Quality & Test Engineers and remove any blockers.
• Encourage the Software Quality & Test Engineers to collaborate across team to ensure efficient implementation of Product and ensure automation governance is adhered to by all.
• Facilitate the handover of QA deliverables for all testing phases.
• Review and ensure all QA artefacts are stored centrally.
• Encourage continuous learning and questioning of the business and technology.
• Allow for and encourage significant investment in the end-to-end QA design.
• Review and prioritise all issues raised by the Software Quality & Test Engineers.
• Work with the Enterprise Quality Assurance Chapter Lead on the metrics and reporting to communicate testing status.
• Seek ongoing improvements in technical capabilities.
• Mentor the Engineers within the team to improve their technical capabilities.
• Responsible for performance management of direct reports (e.g. performance contracts, development plans, poor performance and improvement plans, and review).
• Ensure the team dynamics are healthy (coaching and mentoring, assist with decision making, encourage self-organisation and assist with prioritisation).
• Ensure direct reports’ time sheets are created and signed off timeously.
• Responsible for resource capacity plan(s).
• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values.
• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise.

 Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Programming (OOP)
• Java Development with J2EE and/or Springboot knowledge (Advanced)
• Automation testing using Selenium
• Use of repository systems ie: Azure Repos
• Testing of Services using automation tools such as Rest Assured (and SOAPUI).
• BDD and TDD
• Continuous Integration (CI) process with Jenkins or Azure Pipelines.
• Agile methodology and working in agile teams
• Use of Maven
• Use of Jira and Confluence
• Exposure to Cloud technology.
• Experience in building stubs.
• Experience in Service Virtualisation