About Discovery
Discoverys core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.
About Digital Channels
Working in a high performance organization that prides itself in attracting the finest talent, we challenge ourselves to find solutions that make a difference in the world. Our environment is always buzzing with energy and smart, motivated people working on finding the best way to move forward.
Key Purpose
As an Agile Test Analyst, you will be a key part of a Scrum team, and will have a huge impact on the quality of Discoverys growing range of digital touchpoints and services that allow the Virtual Agent(Chatbot) to deliver all outbound and in-bound communications in the best possible way.
The Digital Channels team works on dynamic new projects and product enhancements within the web and mobile platforms in order to improve business inefficiencies, gain competitive advantage on our products and ultimately to provide better service to our clients. Using knowledge of the organizations technology infrastructure and specific software applications, Digital Channels helps the business to address changes through technologies.
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
- Working as a collaborative member of the Scrum team
- Writing and executing test cases against stories, creating and maintaining automated tests in-line with agreed testing standards and practices
- Documenting defects and making these visible to the teams and the Product Owner
- Providing feedback on user stories from a quality point of view and promoting bug prevention strategies, testability, accessibility and other QA concepts
- Collaborating with other testers, BAs, developers, designers and other experts across the business to deliver business and customer value
- Being proactively involved in the end-to-end lifecycle of digital features including code reviews, user stories grooming, requirements understanding
- Actively participating in all relevant Agile ceremonies and cadences
- Stress Management
- Good analytical skills
- A challenging and enquiring mind
- Attention to detail and tenacity
- Strong experience with: Cucumber, API Testing, Selenium WebDriver, Continuous Integration & Performance testing.
- Excellent working knowledge of test methodologies, writing test plans, creating test cases and debugging
- Extensive technical understanding across the digital domain
- A thorough understanding of testing/QA best practices
- Experience working in large, complex organisations
- Demonstrated experience in successfully contributing to development teams in an Agile/Scrum environment
- Understanding of common software failures and faults
- Knowledge of the domain (highly desirable)
- Knowledge of the system or application-under-test (highly desirable)
- Experience in a variety of testing efforts (desirable)
Minimum
- Diploma/Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology
- At least 3 years + experience in manual testing
- 1- 2 years automation experience
- ISTQB certified with strong knowledge on QA process
- Experience in Agile way of software development
- Experience in BDD way of writing test cases
- Knowledge on various automation frameworks
- 1 year Software Development experience
- Experience on Development and Maintenance of Automation Framework (not to be confused with test case automation).
- Agile Methodology Certification
- Agile Methodology (Scrum)
- Cucumber, API Testing, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium with Java, Continuous Integration & Performance testing.
- ITIL (Incident, Release, Problem Management)
