Test Analyst

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Sandton, South Africa Discovery Limited Full time

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Test Analyst

Business Unit: Discovery Central Services

Function: Quality Assurance

Date: 15 Oct 2024

Test Analyst (Intermediate)

About Discovery

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery.

Key Purpose

As an Agile Test Analyst, you will be a key part of a Scrum team, and will have a huge impact on the quality of Discovery’s growing range of digital touchpoints and services that allow the Virtual Agent (Chatbot) to deliver all outbound and in-bound communications in the best possible way.

The Digital Channels team works on dynamic new projects and product enhancements within the web and mobile platforms in order to improve business inefficiencies, gain competitive advantage on our products and ultimately to provide better service to our clients.

Areas of responsibility may include but are not limited to:

- Working as a collaborative member of the Scrum team
- Writing and executing test cases against stories, creating and maintaining automated tests in-line with agreed testing standards and practices
- Documenting defects and making these visible to the teams and the Product Owner
- Providing feedback on user stories from a quality point of view and promoting bug prevention strategies, testability, accessibility and other QA concepts
- Collaborating with other testers, BAs, developers, designers and other experts across the business to deliver business and customer value
- Being proactively involved in the end-to-end lifecycle of digital features including code reviews, user stories grooming, requirements understanding
- Actively participating in all relevant Agile ceremonies and cadences

Personal Attributes and Skills

- Stress Management
- Good analytical skills
- A challenging and enquiring mind
- Attention to detail and tenacity

Technical Skills

- Strong experience with: Cucumber, API Testing, Selenium WebDriver, Continuous Integration & Performance testing.
- Excellent working knowledge of test methodologies, writing test plans, creating test cases and debugging
- Extensive technical understanding across the digital domain
- A thorough understanding of testing/QA best practices
- Experience working in large, complex organisations
- Demonstrated experience in successfully contributing to development teams in an Agile/Scrum environment
- Understanding of common software failures and faults
- Knowledge of the domain (highly desirable)
- Knowledge of the system or application-under-test (highly desirable)
- Experience in a variety of testing efforts (desirable)

Education and Experience

Minimum

- Diploma/Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology
- At least 3 years’ + experience in manual testing
- 1-2 years automation experience
- ISTQB certified with strong knowledge on QA process
- Experience in Agile way of software development
- Experience in BDD way of writing test cases
- Knowledge on various automation frameworks

Advantageous

- 1 year Software Development experience
- Experience on Development and Maintenance of Automation Framework (not to be confused with test case automation).

Methodologies

Tools

- Cucumber, API Testing, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium with Java, Continuous Integration & Performance testing.

Processes

- ITIL (Incident, Release, Problem Management)

Employment Equity

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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