Senior Software Quality Analyst

6 months ago


Johannesburg, South Africa HuntWave Technologies Full time

The purpose of an SQA is to ensure that all work delivered by PlusNarrative is of the highest quality. This is achieved through the effective planning and execution of tests related activities, ensuring that any development is rigidly tested against detailed functional and non-functional requirements.You'll spend your time implementing manual and automated tests, conducting root cause analysis to mitigate recurring issues, forming a deeper understanding of customer requirements and enforcing compatibility checklists.

**Required Skills**:

- Passion for quality and an extremely high attention to detail
- Skilled in analysis and sharing of insights gained
- 5+ years of QA engineering experience
- 3+ years automation testing/frameworks experience
- Continuous integration and delivery
- E2E testing across mobile and web platforms
- API testing
- Experience using platforms/frameworks/tools such as POSTMAN, Selenium, Katalon, Nightwatch.JS, JMeter, TestNG/Cucumber
- Ability to work in a fast-paced Agile environment

**Advantageous Skills**:

- ISTQB Advanced Level - Test Analyst
- Knowledgeable in at least one programming or scripting language
- Familiarity with product development lifecycles
- Working knowledge of Clickup (Jira etc), Confluence and Bitbucket

**Responsibilities**:

- Continuously optimise standards and processes
- Develop and validate regular testing schedules
- Review, analyse and identify test requirements based on the functional and design specifications and ensure a full understanding of all deliverables
- Plan and prepare test cases and testing environments
- Execute test cases and report test results
- Ensure software stability via regression, unit and user-acceptance testing to identify bugs and ensure production operations run successfully
- Proactively raise questions and seek clarification for testing
- Create documentation and maintain test plans/cases around new and existing requirements and technical specifications
- Hold and facilitate test case reviews with Testing, Development & Design teams
- Ensure that validated deliverables meet functional and design specifications and requirements
- Perform regression and ad-hoc testing of system components potentially affected by system changes
- Communicate with Project Leads to ensure all Quality Assurance projects are managed, tracked and delivered to customer expectations with high quality standards, within required timelines.
- Provide the team with analysis and other relevant reports regarding the quality of work
- Identify any potential quality issues and escalate to Project Lead

**Behaviours**:

- The maturity to see a project through from briefing to delivery
- The diligence and discipline to get things done, no matter the circumstances
- Willing to make informed decisions and learn from failures
- Able to thrive in a fast-paced environment, communicate effectively and be a team player
- Understand the balance between co-creation (group) and deep work (individual).
- Enjoy working with tangible prototypes to solve pain points & goals
- Remain curious in every task and on every project - encouraging others to do the same
- Have a passion to grow the teams skills and the agency as a whole
- Actively participate in planning meetings
- Maintain constant communication and healthy work relationship between Quality Assurance Development and Design Teams



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