Junior QA Engineer

Company Introduction:
JSE-listed Altron, founded in 1965 has a direct presence in South Africa, rest of Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Australia, employing more than 8 500 employees globally. Altron combines technical expertise with in-depth customer understanding to provide end-to-end holistic technology solutions. Group company, Altron Bytes Systems Integration is an end-to-end ICT service provider of consulting, implementation and outsourcing services that partners to help clients in two main ways: Driving value and optimizing client investment in current and legacy systems, applications and infrastructure. Also, most organizations are planning or have embarked on a digital transformation journey. This journey is certainly more than deploying technology – it is a shift in your entire business model and talks to the ‘pace of change’ that an organisation must go through, driven by the rapid adoption of technology. We have a clear go-to-market strategy in key industries covering: Financial Services, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment, Public Sector, Retail, Mining & Manufacturing, Travel & Transport, Energy & Utilities.

We design, build and operate a multitude of enterprise systems either cloud based or on premise including but not limited to CRM, Customer Value Management, Competition Engines, Big Data Platforms, Financial Reporting and Revenue Assurance within South Africa and Africa.

Job Function:
We are looking for a QA Engineer. The successful candidate in this role will form a part of the Quality Assurance Team to ensure that a high-quality product is delivered to our Client.
Your main function will be that of a QA Analyst including Test Automation. We need a person who is passionate about Testing, Test Automation and Quality. You need to perform Testing as well as Develop and Maintain the automation code in accordance with specifications and agreed timescales.

Job Requirements:

Responsibilities:

Manual Testing:

Requirement Analysis; Create test plans and test scripts; Execute test plans. Identify and analyse defects. Log defects and track defect resolution. Create and maintain Automation test cases. Maintain quality assurance environment. Perform manual feature testing

Test Automation
Design, develop, document and implement Test Automation solutions

Collaborate with team members to improve the company’s engineering tools

Develop and maintain design and troubleshooting documentation

Perform unit testing

Troubleshooting, support, problem solving and analysis for users

Compliance with procedures and processes

Education Required:

N. Diploma or B-Tech/ Degree in Information Technology / Computer Science / Engineering degree

ISTQB certification

Experience Required:

2 to 4 years formal testing experience
1+ years automation engineering experience

Essential Competencies:
Software testing experience
Deployment Tools (eg. Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.)

Integration with code repositories (eg GitLAB, GitHUB, BitBucket, etc.)

Expertise in software development methodologies (Agile, Waterfall)

SQL

Self-starter

High attention to detail and accuracy

Deadline driven, able to work in pressurised environment

Compliance with procedures and processes

Must be able to work well as part of a team and independently

Good analysis skills;

Good problem-solving skills

Must have a drive for helping peers

Must have a positive and professional attitude

Excellent communication skills

Experience in one or more of the following:

Python and/or Java (or a similar language)

J-Meter (or any other Performance testing tool)

SOAPUI (or any API testing tool)

Selenium (or any Front-end testing tool)

J-unit (or any unit testing tool)

Scripting language

Advantageous Competencies:

DevOps, CI/CD experience

Cloud exposure (Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

Container deployment, scaling, management, etc. (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.)
Experience in telecommunications industry