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