Automation Tester

PBT Group has an opportunity for a couple of Software Quality Engineers.

Duties:

• Contribute to the systematic breakdown of the business need into manageable feature(s), stories and epics that can be delivered.

• Participate in the backlog grooming.

• Participate in the sprint planning, test estimation and success criteria per story.

• Discuss the low-level design and functional requirements with the Chapter Lead, Application/Solution Architect to understand the approach to test automation.

• Collaborate with the Core Technical Team to continuously improve the test harness, automation frameworks and overall platform.

• Promote the automation framework and tool adopted by the Enterprise Quality Assurance team.

• Perform adhoc peer review of the automated test assets being maintained by the Software Quality Engineer to ensure conformance of the process and governance.

• Collaborate with the environment DevOps engineer to investigate and correct bugs and inefficiencies.

• Develop the automation scripts using the automation framework for execution.

• Implement the test automation with the objective that it has adequate coverage within the sprint and can be re-used for regression testing.

• Ensure the solution meet the architectural and development standards that are re-usable and scalable.

• Confirm that the automation test suite implemented is appropriately catalogued and aligns with the governance.

• Responsible for testing of the system or component testing under load.

• Responsible for testing of the system or component high-availability and recoverability.

• Log defects using the pre-defined defect management tool and ensure the relevant information is captured accurately that will assist with the root cause analysis.

• Manage the product risk and communicate to the QA Lead the details and any possible mitigation factors.

• Collaborate with the stakeholder to ensure the resolution of a defect and the root cause analysis is performed and recorded.

• Report status of testing to the Quality Assurance squad daily.

• Participate in all retrospective reviews.

• Participate in the showcase to external stakeholders.

Experience:

• Intermediate level

• Automation tester

• SQL - must be able to write your own scripts

• Selenium

• BDD practices

• Experience with JIRA

• 4+ years’ relevant experience

• Java

Qualifications/ Certification:

• A degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Business Administration / Commerce or equivalent

• ISTQB/ISEB Foundation

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