Job Overview
Senior Test Automation Engineer – Financial Services
Location: La Lucia Ridge, KwaZulu Natal
This position is limited to BBBEE candidates due to BEE requirements.
Note: The company policy states that all employees need to be fully vaccinated prior to appointment.
A well-established financial services concern is seeking the expertise of a Senior Test Automation Engineer.
Position Overview:
A Senior Test Automation Engineer needs to be well versed in both coding and systems testing.
In addition to being able to author automated tests and update existing test projects, one needs to possess the ability to create a test automation project from the ground up. One will work closely with the Test Team Lead in designing Test Automation Frameworks which give the Junior and Mid-Level Test Automation Engineers the tools to write effective automation tests.
The Senior Test Automation Engineer is required to perform full system testing on all system changes, enhancements, and new system releases. In addition, one will be required to review merge requests and work alongside the Test Team Lead in helping to establish the team’s best practices.
The selected Senior Test Automation Engineer will use your extensive domain knowledge in assisting the Test Automation Team Lead to define where and when automation tests need to be applied within the CI/CID process.
The Senior Automation Engineer is passionate about Quality and is thus, constantly looking for ways to improve this through test automation. Feeding into this core behaviour is the need to stay up to date on new testing tools and strategies to ultimately improve the quality of the Software products developed by the organisation. The Senior Test Automation Engineer has an exceptional eye for detail and is focused in the pursuit of excellence.
Key Focus:
- Help to establish best practices for the team.
- Provide strategy, support, and mentorship to more junior team members.
- Troubleshoot production issues to assist in determining the origin of the defect.
- Optimise CI/CID pipelines to ensure that automation tests provide fast, regular, and reliable feedback.
- Set up test environments and assist DevOps in understanding requirements for test environments.
- Create a new test automation project from scratch.
- Write advanced SQL statements and stored procedures that support a test automation framework.
- Performs system analysis and testing on all system changes, enhancements, and new system releases.
Qualifications and Experience:
- A BSc Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, a BCom Business Information Systems (BIS).
- Salesforce Certifications are an advantage.
- 10+ Years’ experience in Software Test Automation. Preferred frameworks include Selenium, Playwright and Cypress.
- Thorough knowledge of and experience in MS SQL, C#, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
- Covid -19 vaccination certificate essential.
If you meet all the requirements specified above, and interested to further the process, kindly contact Patricia Jacobs by sending your detailed CV to patricia@prosourcing.co.za