Test Analyst Job at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose 

• To ensure the Quality of our systems, by enforcing the appropriate test strategy and ensuring that the completed software meets the established standards, is fit for purpose and delivered without defects.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Writing and executing test cases against stories, creating and maintaining tests in line with agreed testing standards and practices
• Documenting defects and making these visible to the teams and the Product Owner
• Providing feedback on user stories from a quality point of view and promoting bug prevention strategies, testability, accessibility and other QA concepts
• Collaborating with other testers, BAs, developers, designers and other experts across the business to deliver business and customer value
• Being proactively involved in the end-to-end lifecycle of digital features including code reviews, user stories grooming, requirements understanding
• Actively participating in all relevant Agile ceremonies and cadences

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Experience with: Cucumber, API Testing, Selenium WebDriver, Continuous Integration & Performance testing
• Excellent working knowledge of test methodologies, writing test plans, creating test cases and debugging
• Extensive technical understanding across the digital domain
• A thorough understanding of testing/QA best practices
• Experience working in large, complex organisations
• Demonstrated experience in successfully contributing to development teams in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Understanding of common software failures and faults
• Knowledge of the domain (highly desirable)
• Knowledge of the system or application-under-test (highly desirable)
• Experience in a variety of testing efforts (desirable)

Education and Experience

• At least 3+ years experience in manual testing
• ISTQB Foundation Level Certificate

Advantageous

• IT Diploma or other relevant degree
• 1 – 2 years in automation experience

Methodologies

• Agile

Tools

• Continuous Integration
• Jira
• Confluence
• Quality Centre
• Postman and SoapUI