Quality Assurance Specialist at Vodacom
Job Description
Role purpose:
The QA Specialist is responsible of ensuring designed products and services by CBU agile squads’
meet standards of quality by overseeing end to end pre and post development process of features. This role is responsible for reviewing technical design documents and tracking quality assurance metrics to ensure adherence to quality standards. This role is responsible for designing and implementing tests, identifying deficiencies, debugging, and defining remediating actions. The incumbent will provide software-related operations support, including providing level two and level three incident and problem support.
Key accountabilities and decision ownership:
• Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to ensure adherence to design quality and coding standards
• Design and implement acceptance tests for user and technical stories
• Test and validate solution against user story and technical story acceptance criteria, leveraging automation where possible
• Debug tests and provide corrective actions to software engineering
• Track quality assurance metrics, such as defect density and early life incidents
• Suggest improvements to user stories and UX
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
• End-to-end solution and software test design, execution, and validation, with management of testing scenarios across teams / capabilities
• Unit, integration, smoke and static code analysis testing
• Architectural element testing e.g. APIs
• Performance and security testing
• Automated testing and tools e.g. Selenium
• Strong relationship building, persuasion, and collaboration skills that drives effective constructive feedback and support
• Good understanding of the business capability / user journey, wider organizational goals, and desired product business outcomes
• Understanding of both the current Telecommunications and digital services market and emerging business and technology trends
Must have technical / professional qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field
• At least 1-3 years relevant work experience of with three or more years is in software quality assurance, testing, programming and/or systems analysis
• Experience of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes, with experience writing and executing comprehensive test plans and cases
• Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD, BDD and ATDD
• Experience working with multiple programming and scripting languages, such as JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, and Python
• Professional experience and knowledge of the Telecommunications industry preferred
• Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) preferred
• Competency in UX principles and practices preferred
How to Apply:
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