Careers

Duties and responsibilities

• Monitor and participate in scrum team effort to ensure that all quality gates and guidelines are met in a timely manner
• Collaborate with the TPOs and developers on a day-to-day basis to ensure all necessary QA tasks are conducted 
• Delegate work in an effective manner to optimise QA capacity while asserting consistently high quality and coverage
• Ensure QA sprint goals are met without compromise and provide knowledge transfer sessions prior to a release
• Provide release assistance by recording test runs and providing pre-release sign off
• Assist with the identification of team efficiency improvements via automation or other means
• Execute tests and use test management tools to record test runs and communicate test results
• Report, prioritise, and triage defects in a structured and effective manner using issue tracking software
• Liaise with the automation team for any tests that are ideal candidates for automation 
• Employ a quality first mindset and collaborate with the QA team to improve test coverage and team effectiveness
• Any additional duties which will be assigned by the Head of the team

Required knowledge, skills and experience

• University degree in Computer Science or relevant field
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in lead roles, ideally within QA
• Organised and methodical towards approaching complex tasks and improving processes
• Strong knowledge of RESTful API Web Services and testing clients such as Postman
• Basic proficiency in an OOP language will be considered a major asset
• Clear understanding of software testing concepts at system integration and e2e levels
• Experience with Bash and versioning tools such as Git
• Ability to access and traverse application logs to perform detailed root cause analysis
• Strong communication skills and approachable personality
• Experience with issue tracking tools such as Jira and test tracking tools such as Testrail or Xray
• Knowledge of payments and/or banking experience will be considered a major asset