Automation Engineer

Psybergate is an IT company that builds bespoke software solutions and provides highly skilled resources to its clients.

What You Will Be Doing

We are looking for a Automation Engineer / Automation Test Analyst to join our financial services client based in Cape Town (Century City) for a 6-months contract role.

• Define and implement test automation strategy including roadmap, tools, framework & approach.
• Implement, maintain, and improve test automation frameworks
• Actively work with development and infrastructure teams for integrating test automation as an integral part of Continuous delivery pipeline
• Pro-actively seek to make continuous improvements to test coverage, execution, and automation.
• Evaluate, select, and formulate best usage of test automation tools for different purposes.
• Conduct manual functional testing of the UI and APIs
• Build up the automation test Framework.
• Proven experience in defining and operationalization of test automation strategy.
• Proven experience in creating and implementing test automation frameworks for large-scale systems in agile development environment
• Hands-on test automation experience, in a professional software development environment.
• In-depth knowledge of a variety of testing techniques and methodologies
• A solid understanding of test-driven development, continuous integration, continuous delivery both in principle and in practice
• Expertise of agile and waterfall testing methodologies.
• Experience in both Unit and Integration testing needs with exposure to data virtualization tools.
• Experience in several test automation frameworks, e.g., Selenium, TestnG, cucumber nunit/xunit, robotframework
• Experience with Report Portal for reporting purposes
• Demonstrated experience developing high quality test strategies and test execution specific focus on cross browser testing.
• Ability to create good functional and integration test automation scripts and integrate with Continuous integration and code coverage tools to ensure 80% or higher code coverage.
• Excellent organization, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in an unstructured, fast-paced environment.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with great attention to detail, critical thinking, solid communication, and proven leadership skills with the ability to lead multiple test paths simultaneously.

What we are looking for:

• Completed IT / BSc degree or other related fields
• 3 5 years experience in manual and automation testing
• Experience in testing rest Apis
• Understand OOP concepts in programming language e.g., java, C#, python
• Test automation frameworks e.g. nunit, testNg, robotframework
• 3 - 5 years Selenium experience

Please note that if you do not hear from us within 3 weeks, consider your application unsuccessful.

Please note that most of our positions are remote however candidates should be residing within the traveling distance as circumstance of the opportunity can change.