Reference: JHB009194-CP-1
2579_Test Specialist
Location: Gauteng
Contract Term: 1 May 2024 - 31 December 2026
Duties & Responsibilities
ESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:
- Testing and Ops Tools: Selenium, Cucumber, XRay, REST-assured, GitHub Advanced Security, Contrast Assess, Grafana k6, Karate, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Logstash / Influx DB, JMeter
- Languages: Java, JavaScript, Python (Django)
- CI/CD: GitHub Version Control, SonarQube, Build and Deployment Pipelines, Unit Testing
- Databases: SQL Language
- Tools: Jira, Confluence
- Infrastructure: AZURE cloud
Skills: - Automate front end, back end, API and integration.
- Test data management.
- Performance, security and load testing.
- Evaluate test scenarios.
- Execute manual tests.
- Document test cases.
- Write/maintain test scripts.
- Document test results.
- Report test results.
ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS REQUIREMENTS: - DevOps experience: Java Programming, Spring Boot, API development, Ops Service Management, IAM
- Business Analysis: Requirements gathering, elicitation, documentation, Business process modelling, data modelling
- IT Architecture: Cloud Architecture, On-prem/hybrid
- Cloud/Infrastructure: Ansible/Chef, Kubernetes, Terraform, FINOPS
- Requirements management tools: Codebeamer
WHICH QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE DO WE NEED FOR THE ROLE? Relevant IT Degree
3 years plus in a test automation role, more than 5 year’s total experience in software development
ISTQB Certification (Advantageous)
WHAT WILL BE YOUR ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES? - Design and execute test cases of new commercial off the shelf Codebeamer versions, testing of configurations and testing of specific plugins.
- Document and report test results.
- Collaborate with team, system analysis, design, development and testing for their assigned technical products or applications within the context of an agile/DevOps delivery model.
- Interpretation of Testing Results and logging and tracking of Defects on JIRA.
- Automation of Frontend, Backend and Integration, performance and load testing and security testing using industry standard tools, fit for purpose.
- Integrate automation testing at various stages of the build and deploy pipeline for development, regression & release cycles. Working with the feature teams to build up disposable test environments.
- Overall management and maintenance and preparation of test data.
- Coordination between development and support environments.
- Track new/changed requirements and ensure these are addressed during automated and/or manual testing.
- Independently analyse, design as well as develop medium, complex testing components required for Automation.
- Perform continuous quality analysis and provide internal tools to help ensure that quality of the products we ship to customers are of the highest standard.
- Establish, implement, and evolve the formal QA processes to ensure that the group is using industry accepted standard methodologies.
- Design and develop the testing infrastructure i.e., testing tools, test frameworks, test reporting mechanisms to test software and services, applying NoOps principles.
- Integrate the testing infrastructure with the continuous integration and continuous deployment systems to ensure all the tools, services developed are accurately tested and meet the quality goals.
- Stay knowledgeable of new testing tools and strategies and evaluate the technologies to incorporate into the projects.
- Ability to work interdependently as well in a team and to submit deliverables on time and with excellent quality.
- Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills with the ability to communicate effectively (both verbally and in writing) with both technical and non-technical colleagues / users.
- Willingness to be part of an interdisciplinary DevOps team and to learn and take on tasks from other areas of the team.
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