Quality Engineer

Stanbic IBTC Bank

Johannesburg

2h ago

Job Details

Information Technology : systems development, business analysis, architecture, project management, data warehousing, infrastructure, maintenance and production

Job Purpose

An Agile QA Engineer is responsible to participate in feature teams to assist in delivering quality products to the Product Owners.

They wAn Agile QA Engineer is responsible to participate in feature teams to assist in delivering quality products to the Product Owners.

They will participate and give feedback on any activities where QA practices and risks are to be considered from the writing of user stories, pre-development testing notes, execute QA testing activities in accordance to processes and quality guidelines so as to identify defects / quality concerns in projects

Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities

QA Planning and Preparation :

Where applicable and agreed with the feature team, the correct planning of test scenarios and acceptance tests and test criteria using the available artefacts (FSS / TSS / Change notes / User Stories / Epics) and this is created in collaboration with Product Owner, Feature Analyst and Developer.

Participate in estimation of User Stories during iteration planning.

To identify complex, risky, negative and positive test scenarios.

Test data requirements are provided during grooming session and is prepared such that it should be ready in time for the developers / testers.

Desk checks with BA’s, Developer’s, Infrastructure and UX’s team should be adhered too and should not hesitate to raise any issues.

Testing notes to be logged on file repository platform such as Confluence.

Visualization board Management (Kanban).

Ensure all acceptance scenarios are scripted

QA Execution and Tracking :

Prepare Data requirements and ensure data availability for Test case execution. The focus on three types of data : test specific, test reference data to support scenario, application reference data which is needed for the application to start

Collaborate in Demo / Pilot to ensure that all the test scenarios have been catered and plan for exploratory testing which can be conducted over and above the automated unit and functional tests.

Ensure that Integration testing is conducted to ensure that the product works end-to-end. Use of additional testing such as exploratory testing should be conducted to facilitate this.

Ensure that the necessary test stubs and drivers are created with the assistance from the Developers to facilitate test execution where applicable.

All tests executed will contain associated evidence of testing. All test evidence will be attached in appropriate tool such as JIRA as and when required.

All defects associated with the test cases are raised timeously within the test environment, and should be investigated to the point where the impacted downstream system has been established and assigned to correct development resource.

Defect SLA’s per priority must be set up and agreed.

JIRA / Management Tool should be utilized to keep a track of the tasks assigned to the QA and dashboards should be created to track the desired metrics for quality with the help of Iteration Manager.

Execution / Velocity targets / Lead time targets as determined by the Iteration Manager are achieved for each iteration / sprint.

Any risks should be notified to the Iteration Manager and documented in Confluence for team’s reference.

Ensue scripts are executed.

Ensure regression testing is executed

Reporting :

Execution and reporting targets are met.

Attend other meetings (Inception, Iteration Planning Meeting, Grooming, retrofit session, Defect meetings, and Daily SCRUMS (Stand-ups).

Preferred Qualification and Experience

Qualifications :

National Diploma in IT / Computer Systems

BS / MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

Experience :

Proven working experience in software development Life Cycle - 1-2 Years

Proven working experience in software quality assurance - 1-2 Years

Banking industry experience, preferably in Retail / Business Banking - 3-4 Years

Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing - 3-4 Years

Hands-on experience with automated testing tools such as QTP / Selenium - 3-4 Years

Hands-on experience with scripting language such as Java / Shell / Ruby - 3-4 Years

Experience working in an Agile / Scrum development process - 3-4 Years

Knowledge / Technical Skills / Expertise

Experience in data management, data integration and data quality verification

Understanding of Business Intelligence configuration management tools / processes

Background in data profiling

Familiarity with database design and implementation

Experience in troubleshooting, performance tuning, and optimization

Knowledge of CI / CD principles and best practices in data processing

Analytical and problem-solving skills coupled with initiative and accountability

Familiarity with different software development methodologies

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Write SQL scripts to validate data surfacing in BI assets against the data sources

Ensure data quality by checking against our ODS , Data Platforms and the front-end application

Track, monitor and document testing results

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Perform tasks spanning the full lifecycle of data management activities with minimal supervision

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