QA Engineer - Mobile Automation

QA Engineer - Mobile Automation

Cape Town

Join a large enterprise in a permanent position. The company has various brands and apps and need your automation skills to ensure the best quality of their mobile applications.

Role Purpose

• Identify opportunities for automation within software processes.
• Design and execute QA tests using scripts that automatically test functionality.
• Run tests for databases, systems, networks, applications, hardware and software.
• Identify bugs and quality issues in development, service or business processes.
• Install applications and databases relevant to automation.
• Collaborate with other business units to understand how automation can improve workflow.
• Gather requirements from clients, customers or end-users to develop the best automation solutions

Key Performance Areas / Outputs

• Test case/ script generation and review.
• Test prerequisites compilation.
• Test execution and recording.
• High quality and accurate maintenance of the test packs.
• Test status updates.
• Test closure activities

REQUIREMENTS:

Essential

• Formal Education Grade 12
• Diploma or Degree qualified (IT or related technical)
• Manual testing experience (at least 2 years)
• SQL experience
• 5+ Years Automation scripting experience
• Testing in a retail / financial sector
• Functional testing, system testing, integration testing, regression testing, automation scripting and execution
• systems testing, integration testing
• non functional, performance testing
• Testing and automation types: Integration testing, UI, E2E, API, REST, Device testing
• Automation Tools: UFT, Selenium, Postman, Appium, Mobile Centre, SoupUI
• IDE’s: Eclipse, IntelliJ
• CI Tools: Jenkins, Bamboo etc.
• Build Tools: Maven
• Version control tools: GIT, Bitbucket
• Management Tools: JIRA (Zephyr), QC / ALM
• Other Tools: NewRelic, Load Runner, NeoLoad, JMeter
• Development languages: Java, C#, SQL, Python
• A commitment to quality and a thorough approach to work (5-7years) – Essential
• Confident enough in their ability to test that they can push back on a developer when tests fail
• Must not only test what works, but also look for what does not work, and try to break the system
• Excellent documentation skills & adherence to standards
• Needs to be a problem solver, enjoy digging through numbers
• Needs to be able to run with a task on their own

Desirable but not required

• ISTQB Foundation Level
• ISTQB Agile
• Testing in an Agile environment
• security and usability testing
• Experience of testing using test management tools such as QC / Zephyr