QA Engineering

• Proactively contribute & participate in the full solution development lifecycle as a member of a

squad / multiple squads as an QA automation specialist engineer

• Actively participate in daily Scrum and project planning meetings.

• Participate and analyze test automation requirements during the requirements analysis phase of

technical product & service development, maintenance & optimization (across tribes & squads) –

using design specifications and technical documentation (e.g. Business Briefs, User Stories,

Architecture & Integration documentation)

• Prepare QA & Automation testing documentation (planning, design, execution and sustainability)

• Develop automation test plans

• Develop and execute automated test scripts using various technologies (automated scripts, test

harnesses, SQL scripts etc.)

• Perform various types of automation testing (regression, integration, black box, scalability)

• Evaluate automated test cases and analyse & report results

• Facilitate test plan / case reviews within squads

• Work with product engineers to evaluate software / solution quality & provide recommendations

for improvement / enhancement

• Contribute to the design and selection of testing frameworks for business applications

• Deliver all automation & technical testing deliverables on time (always)

• Provide the required project / scrum related information / feedback on deliverables (e.g. progress,

tracking, quality etc.)

• Conduct performance monitoring on applications / components of applications for which you’ve

designed and executed test scripts / plans

• Produce quality and testing outcome metrics and reports

DevOps

• Follow engineering best practices and continuously improve on engineering knowledge to

successfully shift our QA capability forward

• Leverage coding language understanding & expertise to deploy testing requirements for specific

products / services

• Understand the full technical solution that is being tested – show interest and capability to run the

technical solution & the ability to test the viability of the code being developed

• Shift from testing features to supporting & being accountable for full product delivery

Risk & Governance

• Ensure compliance with technical risk and governance requirements

• Ensure work is compliant with automation testing frameworks and standards

• Proactively identify and communicate risks ahead of need

• Participate in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Incident Management processes as

required and implement mitigating actions

People

• Participate in peer reviews & continuously develop automation testing awareness & capability

across squads

Additional Job Description

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements,

Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and Absa Policies and Policy Standards.

Understand and manage risks and risk events (incidents) relevant to the role.

• Core to this programme is knowledge of financial and regulatory reporting acumen (BA

series, General Ledger, Risk Reports Metrics etc)