Software Tester

**Job Number**
- 71734

**Job Type**
- Permanent

**Job Title**
- Software Tester

**Computer Skills**
- Ms Office

**Industry**
- Business Services

**City**
- Cape Town

**Province**
- Western Cape- Job Requirements**This position will be accountable for**:

- Performing complex audits and tests of software products in accordance with software test plans, policies and procedures
- Debugging and characterizing defects
- Providing software evaluation reports detailing configuration, system quality, collect metrics and descriptions for passing and failing tests
- Developing and executing software test plans, automated scripts and programs for testing
- Ensuring the maintenance of documentation of test operations and report results to software development team
- Regularly review test plans or company products to identify actual and potential problems
- Proactively support the software development team in the diagnosis and replication of software failures
- Perform functional, regression, and end-to-end acceptance testing
- Providing reports on progress, anomalies, risks and issues associated with the overall project
- Developing and executing test cases against stories, creating and maintaining tests in line with agreed testing standards and practices
- Providing feedback on user stories from a quality point of view and promoting bug prevention strategies, testability, accessibility
- Supporting the operations of the test environment and preparing for evaluations
- Provide informal training in the collection methods of feedback on the developing design from end users and other representative sources
- Estimating test effort and testing according to the schedule and completing tasks within allocated timeframes
- Contributing to selection of the most appropriate means of representing business requirements in the context of a specific change initiative, ensuring traceability back to source
- Interpreting, executing and documenting complex test scripts using agreed methods and standards
- Deploying test automation to continuous integration environment and to ensure that test results are delivered in appropriate ways

**Knowledge, skills and attributes**:

- Demonstrate the ability to plan and organize
- Excellent attention to detail and high accuracy
- Sound verbal and written communication skills coupled with good interpersonal skills
- Solid problem analysis and solving skills
- Working knowledge of test methodologies, implementing test plans, test cases and debugging
- Demonstrate technical understanding and knowledge across the digital domain
Proven ability to translate solutions into business terms and communicate to stakeholders
- Solid understanding of testing of IT systems, including manual and automation testing
- Ability to monitor, log and report on service delivery and convey results to stakeholders in agreed format and timescales
- Ability to evaluate risks, priorities and business benefits, leveraging strong business knowledge
- Extensive knowledge of programming and scripting language**Inherent Requirements**

**Education and training**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or equivalent
- Relevant certification (ISTQB)

**Experience**:

- Proven experience in a variety of testing efforts
- At least 4 years’ experience in a similar position
- Solid experience dealing with relevant stakeholders
- Proven experience in executing test strategies, plans and cases
- Strong background on what is technically required to deliver IT solutions
- Solid experience with defect tracking and testing systems
- Extensive experience using techniques for identifying, gathering and validating customers’ needs in the delivery of IT services
- Proven experience in project management and quality assurance

**What Qualification**
- Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or equivalent

**Minimum Qualification**
- Bachelors

**Status**
- Available