DigiOutsource Quality Control / Assurance Jobs in Cape Town
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Who we’re looking for
We’re on a thrilling journey of growth and innovation, and we need passionate, driven individuals to join us. At DigiOutsource, every day is action-packed, and we expect you to bring your A-game. In return, you’ll find a supportive environment where your skills can flourish, and your career can soar. Ready to become a game-changer? Supercharge your career with us and be part of something extraordinary.
Why do we need you
We’re on a mission to create extraordinary experiences for our customers, and we believe that your unique skills, passion and superdrive will help us achieve our vision.
The Quality Engineer will undertake the responsibility for analyzing, planning, setting up, monitoring, maintaining, troubleshooting, and reporting on advanced automated testing processes across diverse platforms. This individual should possess advanced test automation skills and work closely and proactively with the Development and DevOps Teams to deliver superior quality software while continuously enhancing test effectiveness and efficiency.?
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What you’ll be doing
As part of your role, your responsibilities will include:
Involvement in user story definition and test scenarios: Collaborate with the team to write clear, upfront test scenarios and resolve outstanding questions.
Support with issue reproduction and resolution: Take ownership of reproducing and resolving software issues in collaboration with development teams.
Collaboration with developers and DevOps: Collaborate with developers to ensure proper unit test coverage and validate automation readiness.
Cross-Team Collaboration: Actively engage with teams like Product or Business Analysis to ensure QA needs are represented.
Agile/Scrum practices: Actively contribute to Agile practices by estimating tasks and aligning testing goals with sprint objectives.
Continuous Improvement Initiatives: Participate actively in retrospectives, providing ideas to enhance quality and process efficiency.
Risk Management and Impact Assessment: Assess and prioritize risks during test planning, providing input on potential impact.
Quality standards and defect prevention: Analyse defect trends and recommend process changes to mitigate recurring issues.
Customer Advocacy: Represent the customer perspective during testing, identifying gaps in expected functionality.
Automation creation and maintenance: Independently create and maintain automated test suites, ensuring efficient regression and feature coverage.
Automation strategies and tools: Begin implementing automation strategies using appropriate tools to streamline testing processes.
Tool and Framework Development: Configure and extend tools to better align with project requirements.
Metrics and performance reporting: Provide management with insights from test automation execution and coverage metrics.
Governance and QA principles: Begin contributing to discussions on process improvement and governance adjustments.
Technical leadership and mentoring: Mentor Junior QA Engineers, providing guidance on best practices in testing and automation.
This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities. You may be required to complete other reasonable duties to achieve business objectives.
Essential skills you’ll bring to the table
- A minimum of 3 - 5 years of hands-on automation testing experience.
- Computer Science-related degree, diploma, or similar qualification.
- Experience in working with agile teams and successfully delivering agile based software projects.
- Utilizing dev tools like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
- Comfortable with source control tools, like GitLab.
- Ability to write integration and UI tests.
- Experience using automation frameworks and tools like Playwright, Selenium (NOT IDE), Nunit.
- Experience in using Typescript/JavaScript, C#, JSON.
- API Testing using Postman or in code.
- Experience with designing, creating, and maintaining automation frameworks.
- Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle.
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Desirable skills you’ve got up your sleeve
It would be great if you also have some of the following skills
Previous exposure to Microsoft Azure DevOps & VSTS
Experience with actively developing & managing Docker infrastructure
Experience with managing & creating OWASP Zap testing scripts for security testing
Exposure to Saucelabs or similar tools for mobile testing
ISTQB Advanced Level Certifications
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