Consultant Automation Tester

2 weeks ago

Sandton, South Africa Eblocks Software Full time

Junior QA Engineer


A genuine commitment to "changing the face of society" using technology — our way of thinking about diversity and inclusion.

Over the past few months we have implemented several initiatives to make Eblocks the coolest company on the block and welcoming home to technologists of all backgrounds and skillsets.

In addition, we're actively working towards addressing the gender gap, and you'll see that diversity reflected in our teams.

Continuous learning.

You'll be exposed to new languages, frameworks and ideas from your peers and on our projects, challenging you to stay at the top of your game.

No pigeon-holing. At Eblocks, there's no "applying" to new roles. We are small and embrace that.

With time, you'll build trust and credibility and find opportunities to try out new positions based on your career aspirations.

Time, resources, and support to help you grow as a technologist beyond your day job. We love to learn, share and support your endeavours, whatever they may be. So contact us if you are bored in the bank, tired of monotony, or need a new challenge.

We are fully committed to global sustainable development goals and to alleviating economic abuse in Africa.

You can expect the following from working with us:

  • We pair program, all day, every day, because we know it delivers remarkable results.
  • We practice and teach an approach to software engineering that can be applied across industries and organizations, so you'll experience all types of teams, products, and technologies.
  • Lots of Open Source, we don't limit ourselves to a specific technology. We use what it takes to solve problems the right way.
Required Skills / Experiences

  • 12+ years of Software Development experience in a variety of programming languages
  • Strong communication skills and interest in a pairprogramming environment
  • Passion for growing your skills, tackling interesting work and challenging problems
  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent
Desired Skills / Experiences- Experience in Test Driven Development (TDD) and agile methodologies

  • Experience working directly with clients, leading projects, and mentoring engineers
  • Ability to travel to work and client offices
  • Continuous delivery practices to improve software delivery speed.
  • Excellent communication, analytical skills and decisionmaking ability in collaborative environments
  • Attention to detail and ability to identify test data requirements
  • Time management
  • Troubleshooting skills
  • Experience in automating tests as part of CI/CD
  • Good understanding of HTTP, APIs (The fundamentals)
  • Solid of understanding XML / JSON
  • Scripting languages like Bash and/or Python
  • Database and query languages knowledge
  • Good understanding of frameworks and libraries like JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, HTML, CSS
  • Solid understanding of testing frameworks i.e. Junit, Selenium,Cypress
  • Comfortable with stubbing tools like wire mock/hoverfly and other tools like SOAPUI and POSTMAN


If any of this sounds good to you, and do, you love clean code and efficiency in software? Or even love the opportunity to nerd out with some of the best developers on the block? Let us know and we'll get the process started with a chat, where you will be welcomed by post-it notes and interactive agile approaches to a truly agile centric environment.

As a software consultant, you will work on a wide variety of projects alongside and for our clients. You will play an essential role in leading these projects such as pothole detection or even computer vision.

You will work closely with data scientists, data engineers, and even UX designers to build some of the best products on the continent.


Overall Job Purpose:

  • Exercises the work product / developed product in a simulated deployment setting to determine its fitness for use and purpose
  • Validates testing requirements, reviews test plans and ensures appropriate test coverage.
  • Provides expertise in developing testing infrastructure, authoring frameworks, performing market analysis and providing technical leadership / strategic direction to the testing organization
  • Leverage existing test cases and develop efficient new test cases to validate that business requirements are met. Testers support test cases and validation of the test case results for the products under test.

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