Offer summary

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience, 8+ years of relevant experience or 4+ years of experience alongside relevant education, Experience in software quality assurance, test strategies, backend testing, test automation, version control, and SQL, Familiarity with tools like JIRA, Confluence, Business Process Engines is a plus.

Key responsabilities:

Collaborate, communicate, and interact effectively within Agile teams and with stakeholders

Acquire information, evaluate test results and adapt to changes quickly

Define testable user stories, update test scenarios, and execute testing on front-end and back-end systems

Review test plans, collaborate with team members, work on acceptance criteria and test automation

Ithemba Recruitment is an organisation that specializes in the placement of quality candidates in various industries. We at Ithemba recruitment are “specialist generalists” we have the understanding that the we are able to recruit for a wide range of positions in various job functions that clients may require because we prefer to be seen as specialists for our clients needs and culture rather than specialists in a specific sector. We feel that any position can be qualified by the correct understanding of people rather than what field they work in. We feel that by communicating effectively with candidates and having respect for their needs, requirements and time – we are able to form relationships and properly understand our candidates and the culture that they would fit into so as to service our clients’ needs more effectively. You could possibly classify us as “Versatilist”. Whether you are in need of a new member of staff or as we like to call it "a new family member" or if you are in search of a new opportunity our consultants are ready to take your call.

Job description

Duties and responsibilities:

As Agile methodologies depend heavily on collaboration, communication, and interaction between the team members as well as stakeholders outside the team, testers in an Agile team should have good interpersonal skills. Testers in Agile teams should:

Be positive and solution-oriented with team members and stakeholders.
Display critical, quality-oriented, skeptical thinking about the product.
Actively acquire information from stakeholders (rather than relying entirely on written specifications)
Accurately evaluate and report test results, test progress, and product quality
Work effectively to define testable user stories, especially acceptance criteria, with customer representatives and stakeholders.
Evaluate existing test scenarios and test plans.
Collaborate within the team, working in pairs with programmers and other team members.
Respond to change quickly, including changing, adding, or improving test cases.
Update existing test scenarios, test plans, and test scripts as necessary.
Plan and organize their own work.
Execute testing on both Web front end and back-end systems (Configurations)

Qualifications and experience:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or comparable experience
8 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education.
4+ years experience in software quality assurance
4+ years experience in developing test strategies, plans and scripts
3+ years experience with backend services testing
3+ years experience with test data set up
Some experience with test automation (Sellenium, Katalon Studio, JMeter)
Experience using version control (Git, Subversion, Mercurial)
Basic knowledge and understanding using SQL
Experience in JIRA, Confluence and Business Process Engines will be an added benefit.

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