We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us!
Think you've been challenged before? Think again!
- Scale: Over 2.5 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.
- Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time.
- Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, Superbalist.com and Mr D Food. We like to promote from within: Here's your chance.
This position reports to the QA Engineering Director.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
- Lead a team of QA testers and automation QA engineers
- Contribute to Community of Practice for QA for engineering
- Drive recruitment for the QA team
- Raise development quality by developing processes and best practices for testing in dev teams, in collaboration with the developers
- Drive continuous improvement for quality output across the SDLC
- Improve and automate test strategies
- Develop and execute test cases to diagnose issues and bugs, creating test data when required.
- Design, develop and execute automation scripts
- Implement automation framework with continuous integration covering UI Automation
- Identify testing deficiencies and subsequently implementing automated tests based on their requirements
- Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs
- Perform regression testing when bugs are resolved
- Increase code coverage across the team's technology stack
- Develop status reports based on test completion/findings and communicate these to team leaders including any impact on the overall project plan.
- Mentoring and guiding the test team and developers on test approaches and automation suites
- Works well with people, and is passionate about helping people be their best
- Is a team player, an active listener, mentor, and able to communicate well
- Shows solid reasoning and decision making, with the ability to work under pressure
- Is passionate about technology, systems and QA
- Is curious, always learning, and keeping up to date with the industry
- Self-motivated with strong capability of fast learning
- Ability to work efficiently both independently and within the team
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to understand and critique requirements.
- Strong communication skills
- Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering and a minimum of 5 years of Software QA experience in a software/technology environment is required, 2 years of which should be in a QA management role.
- In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelor's Degree or an Advanced Diploma (in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 8 years of Software QA management experience in a software/technology environment, 2 years of which should be in a QA management role.
- ISTQB/ISEB qualification will be an advantage
- Experience managing testing throughout the SDLC (development testing, unit testing, API testing, performance testing, system testing etc.)
- Strong experience with Python, Java and/or other programming languages
- Experience with Jenkins or another Continuous Integration application will be an advantage
- Understanding of configuration management and version control
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
- Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
- Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
- Strong knowledge of SQL and scripting
- Experience testing and administering in Linux and other Unix environments
- Experience with unit test frameworks
- Experience with performance and/or security testing
- Flexibility to learn new technologies and explore new tools
- Understanding of configuration management and version control
- Experience in installing, upgrading, configuring and verifying (smoke tests) virtualized testing environments (VMs)
- The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.
- No doors: We aren't fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab and make something great.
- Remote working: Love water cooler chats and working from home? Takealot.com offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
- Mentorship programme: We aren't kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Now's your chance to be one of the best, by learning from the best.
- Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Up-skill with free access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera and more.
- Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds at takealot.com during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).
- Staff discount. Millions of products across 28 departments. What more could you ask for?
- Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it.
- Right tools, right job: Mac or Windows, two monitors or one. Whatever your preference, you'll work on the latest tech, off the latest tech.
- Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere.
- Tech stack (for days): ReactJS, Python, Scala, Kotlin, Swift, Google Cloud, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes and all things machine learning. If you build it, they will come.
- Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to).
If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!
Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.
