Automation Tester

**Listing reference**: adapt_000036**Listing status**: Online-
**Position summary**

**Industry**:IT & Internet
- **Job category**:Other: Banking, Finance, Insurance, Stockbroking**Location**:Midrand
- **Contract**:Permanent**Remuneration**:Market Related
- **EE position**:No**About our company**
- A provider of leading specialised software and digitally-led business solutions that assist clients across targeted industries.**Introduction**Job description**

**Testing and Quality Assurance**
- Execute and evaluate manual or automated test cases and report test results.
- Contribute to the development and testing of User Stories.
- Analyse test requirements from specifications, map test case requirements and design test coverage plans.
- Validate User Stories by ensuring that they have appropriate Test plans, and adhere to the Testing Standards.
- Facilitate test plan/case reviews with cross-functional team members and ensure test plans are approved by a fellow Test Analyst before executing on the Test Plan.
- Identify any potential quality issues per defined process and escalate potential quality issues.

**Project Delivery**
- Drive successful execution of sprint objectives by coordinating with all stakeholders across the release value-chain (Product Development, Product Owner(s), Product Manager(s), Content Providers and Third Parties).
- Participate in key activities that compliment success in every Program Increment.
- Drive efficiency in delivery by resolving challenges that may impact successful delivery.
- Partnering with Scrum Master(s), Product Owner(s) and fellow team members to identify potential risks.

**Collaboration and Stakeholder Management**
- Maintain effective communication with relevant team (Product, Support, Training and Consulting etc) to identify and act on real-time customer insight to inform compelling customer experience interventions.
- Support go-to-market execution by collaborating closely with the Product Owner(s) and fellow development teams in optimising user experiences, solving customer issues and partnering closely with customer success and client facing functions.
- Establish a trusted relationship to help drive continued value of products and service.

**Data Analysis**
- Understand client feedback to deliver additional product line features and capabilities that addresses client issues.
- Optimise existing metrics and defining new areas of measurement to improve velocity, cycle time, product experiences and performance.

**Minimum requirements**

**Essential Requirements**
- Completed BSc Computer Science / Information Systems or BCom related degree.
- Minimum 2 years experience in software testing/development related roles.
- At least 1-2 years’ automation testing experience.
- Completed ISTQB Foundation or Agile qualification or similar(Advantage).

**Desirable Requirements**
- Experience using/supporting financial software systems.
- Experience using ticketing systems such as JIRA.

**Knowledge**
- CaseWare Working Papers software knowledge.
- Accounting.
- Test Planning.
- Testing Tools.
- Testing Procedures.
- Testing Standards.

**Skills**
- Analytical skills.
- Computer literacy skills.
- Facilitation skills.
- Quality management software skills.
- Business processes skills.
- Defect management skills.
- Manual testing skills
- Automated testing skills.

**Attributes**

**Personal Attributes and Qualities**
- Effective communicator at all levels
- Creative approach in solving technical problems, whilst translating technical requirements into test plans.
- Strong sense of prioritization, focusing on deliverables.
- The ability to effectively deliver on deadlines and to be self-motivated.
- Abstract thinker - the ability not to conform to the norm and taking a non-conventional approach in uncover software defects.
- An unreserved commitment to quality and elimination of mistakes and errors.
- Reliability and resiliency - being adaptive to a changing environment with unique challenges.
- The ability to collaborate effectively with others.
- Adding value by promoting innovation and leveraging new ideas.