Quality Engineer l: FTC: Banking Industry

Quality Engineer l: Johannesburg: Banking Industry

To identify quality concerns in projects and apply quality assurance (QA) practices and principles throughout the QA lifecycle thereby participating in the delivery of quality products in accordance with SaFE principles. To enable testing frameworks that facilitate an efficient testing environment.

Outputs:

Technology and Architecture:
Raise and escalate defects associated with the test cases. Conduct investigations into defects to establish the impacted downstream system and assign the correct development resource.
Utilize Management Tools aligned to agile ways of work to keep record of assigned tasks using dashboards to track the desired quality metrics.
Meet execution and reporting targets to achieve or exceed expected levels of performance.
Set up and agree upon defect SLAs per priority, to align and manage expectations across the team and ensure focus is directed according to criticalities.
Drive the achievement of execution, velocity, or lead time targets so that identified risks are documented and escalated.
Execute the agreed level and type of testing scripts, and document and store results to create a portfolio of evidence thereby enhancing traceability.
Engage in team collaboration sessions and other Agile ceremonies and events to facilitate teamwork and cohesion.
Plan test scenarios, acceptance tests and test criteria using the available artifacts, in collaboration with the involved stakeholders and/or team members to ensure that the requirements are validated with sufficient test coverage.
Estimate User Stories during iteration planning to identify complex, risky, negative, and positive test scenarios.
Identify and provide test data requirements during grooming sessions to prepare it for script execution.
Conduct test environment pre-checks and readiness assessments so that risks and issues may be identified and raised.
Log testing notes on central knowledge-sharing platform to ensure that the latest technical specifications are kept up to date.
Ensure that all test scenarios validating the acceptance criteria are scripted so that reuse and consistent execution is followed.
Prepare data requirements to ensure that data availability for Test case execution is focused on test specific, test reference, and application reference data.
Cater for test scenarios during the demo/pilot and plan for exploratory testing to be conducted over and above the automated unit and functional tests to ensure maximum test coverage is obtained.
Conduct integration testing to ensure that the tested product works end-to-end and create test stubs and drivers with Developers to facilitate test execution.
Create and maintain a portfolio of evidence detailing all executed tests and attach it in the appropriate tool so that a detailed record of test execution is kept
Qualifications:
Matric
Diploma: Information Technology
Degr