Test Specialist (Advanced) 2579 TT

About the position

Design and execute testcases of new commercial off the shelf Codebeamer versions, testing of configurations and testing of our client’s specific plugins.



Document and report test results.



Collaborate with team, system analysis, design, development and testing for their assigned technical products or applications within the context of an agile/DevOps delivery model.



Interpretation of Testing Results and logging and tracking of Defects on JIRA.



Automation of Frontend, Backend and Integration, performance and load testing and security testing using industry standard tools, fit for purpose.



Integrate automation testing at various stages of the build and deploy pipeline for development, regression & release cycles. Working with the feature teams to build up disposable test environments.



Overall management and maintenance and preparation of test data.



Coordination between development and support environments.



Track new/changed requirements and ensure these are addressed during automated and/or manual testing.



Independently analyse, design as well as develop medium, complex testing components required for Automation.



Perform continuous quality analysis and provide internal tools to help ensure that quality of the products we ship to customers are of the highest standard.



Establish, implement, and evolve the formal QA processes to ensure that the group is using industry accepted standard methodologies.



Design and develop the testing infrastructure i.e., testing tools, test frameworks, test reporting mechanisms to test software and services, applying NoOps principles.



Integrate the testing infrastructure with the continuous integration and continuous deployment systems to ensure all the tools, services developed are accurately tested and meet the quality goals.



Stay knowledgeable of new testing tools and strategies and evaluate the technologies to incorporate into the projects.



Ability to work interdependently as well in a team and to submit deliverables on time and with excellent quality.



Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills with the ability to communicate effectively (both verbally and in writing) with both technical and non-technical colleagues / users.



Willingness to be part of an interdisciplinary DevOps team and to learn and take on tasks from other areas of the team.


Minimum Requirements:

Qualifications/Experience:



Relevant IT Degree



3 years plus in a test automation role, more than 5 year’s total experience in software development



ISTQB Certification (Advantageous)



 



Essential Skills Requirements:



Testing and Ops Tools: Selenium, Cucumber, XRay, REST-assured, GitHub Advanced Security, Contrast Assess, Grafana k6, Karate, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Logstash / Influx DB, JMeter



Languages: Java, JavaScript, Python (Django)



CI/CD: GitHub Version Control, SonarQube, Build and Deployment Pipelines, Unit Testing



Databases: SQL Language



Tools: Jira, Confluence



Infrastructure: AZURE cloud



 



Skills:



Automate front end, back end, API and integration



Test data management



Performance, security and load testing



Evaluate test scenarios



Execute manual tests



Document test cases



Write/maintain test scripts



Document test results



Report test results



 



Advantageous Skills Requirements:



DevOps experience:



Java Programming, Spring Boot



API development



Ops Service Management



IAM



 



Business Analysis:



Requirements gathering, elicitation, documentation



Business process modelling, data modelling



 



IT Architecture:



Cloud Architecture, On-prem/hybrid



 



Cloud/Infrastructure:



Ansible/Chef, Kubernetes, Terraform, FINOPS



 



Requirements management tools:



Codebeamer

Desired Skills:

• Test data management
• Selenium
• Java