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Key Purpose
A SQA is responsible for designing, executing, and managing test cases to ensure software meets business and functional requirements. They identify defects, report issues, and collaborate with developers to resolve them. Their role includes functional, system, integration, and regression testing. They also ensure test documentation is maintained and aligned with project standards.
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
Test Planning
- Actively participate in JAD Review sessions with the SQA leads & SQA team members and identify test requirements gaps and key impact areas to focus on
- Daily attendance to Pod stand ups and effective participation in scope discussion where required
- Deliverables and planning tasks in SDLC tool and due dates according to agreed milestones
- Participate in backlog grooming
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Test Case Analysis & Development
- Understand the requirements, regression tests, root causes and how automation can assist
- Understand impact analysis
- Execute manual test cases and identify test cases that are most likely to unveil defects (Way of Work).
- Identify test data permutations to facilitate optimal test coverage and communicate to the SQA Lead
- Identify opportunity for automation on repeatable test cases
- Ensure traceability between requirements and test cases.
Test case Execution and Monitoring
- Assist in Preparation of data required for the various test scenarios
- Execute test cases from the tool
- Ensure execution is fully completed before the code is implemented.
- Monitor defect management to resolution
- Defects logged are correctly categorized, prioritized and correct information to reproduce the bug is provided
- Identify risks and issues and escalate early on
- Understand JIRA filters and Dashboards in the Test and SDLC tools show our testing efforts.
- Ensure admin on requirements and ensure that admin is done within SLA
User Acceptance Testing
- Ensure that the User Acceptance tests are executed from the testing tool.
- Assist Users during UAT phase where necessary
- Monitor that the Users update JIRA with the test status.
- Ensure where applicable a known issue list is communicated and acknowledged.
Release implementation
- Ensure confluence page check list is updated correctly
Post-release
- Handle all outstanding admin and ensure that the release is closed appropriately to meet audit requirements
Team Collaboration and Leadership
- Manage own work
- Communicate clearly, constructively and effectively
- Build relationships with other members of the team and the business users we service
- Attend squad meetings and contribute with your testing update
Technical Skills
Intermediate knowledge of:
- ISTQB Foundation
- Jira & Agile process knowledge
- PL SQL
- Root Cause Analysis process
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Education and Experience
Essential:
- Matric
- Foundation Level ISTQB in manual testing
- At least 1 – 4 years’ experience in Software testing
- Quality assurance / software testing methodologies
- Experience in Agile testing methodologies
- Experience in JIRA and Xray
Advantageous:
- UAT and Business Handover Skills
- Diploma or University degree in IT/Software or technical discipline such as Computer Science
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