QA Tester

QA Tester - 12 Month Contract 

Minimum Requirements:

• Matric (Grade 12)
• Bachelors degree in computer science
• 7+ years of strong testing experience.
• 4+ years of experience in Test Automation and micro services.
• Familiar with testing one or more programming languages as appropriate for the specific requirements of the department related to the field.
• System Design experience advantageous.

Responsibilities:

• To create, debug, verify, maintain, and update technical test scripts to run API testing.
• Is responsible for testing the functionality of a system designed to address business requirements to prevent errors/defects in the live system through the implementation of change control and improvement.
• Supports applications with an understanding of system integration, test planning, scripting, and troubleshooting.
• Reviews project proposal, evaluates alternatives, provides estimates and makes recommendations.
• Identifies potential process improvement areas and suggests options and recommends approaches.
• Strong automated testing experience with good knowledge of tools including Git, JMeter and Postman.
• Solid understanding of test processes: requirement analysis, test scenario design, test case creation, test scripting and status reporting to stakeholders for testing service.
• Strong in validation content from XML, databases and flat files using scripts.
• Experience in writing tests in JAVA.
• Experience of testing RESTful APIs.
• Experience with Atlassian tools such as confluence and JIRA.
• Experience working with Jenkins to build CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience with Database and SQL for data validation (able to extract data and write data queries).
• Strong hands-on experience with automation of API automation frameworks.
• Experience in testing Webservices (Proxy/Business).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Skills in Selenium Scripting, Execution and Reporting.