Software Quality Assurance – Manual Tester – Cape Town at Pragma Global

Minimum Requirements

NQF 6 – Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant National Diploma or relevant College qualification

With preferably one of the following certifications:

ISTQB Foundation certificate
ISTQB Advance certificate
Test Manager certificate
Greater than 36 months experience in manual testing
Excellent understanding of the Test Management Lifecycle (TMLC) as a subset of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Test requirements analysis
Test effort estimation
Recording of test plans, which includes the creation of test scenarios and test cases to meet the exception criteria using Azure/DevOps/TFS
Test environment preparation
Test execution using Azure/DevOps/TFS
Defect logging using Azure/DevOps/TFS
Test closure/reporting using Azure/DevOps/TFS
Ability to write and/or maintain test automation script using Python (Minimum foundational fundamentals understanding/competency with > 24 months experience) (Optional)
Experience in the use of Selenium to automate web browser interaction. Must be able to configure Selenium using Python, install Selenium libraries in Python, download and install PyCharm, create a new project and write the Selenium test script, and run and validate the test scripts. (Optional)
Excellent verbal and writing skills
Excellent communication skills
Analytical thinker
Problem solver
Great time management skills
Needs to be thorough in recording detail
Needs to be able to work under pressure

Duties & Responsibilities

Analyse

Create test analyse task
Analyse requirements for all features, technical debt features and defects in a release cycle, per sprint
Analyse the acceptance criteria for all features, technical debt features and defects in a release cycle, per sprint

Design

Create test design task
Design test plan (new) or amend existing test plan for existing features and/or defects
Review test plan
Provide thought leadership regarding test designs

Develop

Created test tasks.
Size test task with a level-3 estimation.
Review sizing of test tasks.
Update test tasks daily.
Be a test Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Mentor a colleague (be a "Buddy") in testing

Test

Perform test plan reviews
Execute tests (manual and/or automated) against test plan
Review test output and record defects, if needed
Be accountable for testing delivery

Deploy

Obtain test sign-off from business analyst
Continuous Improvement of Software Test Lifecycle processes

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