Technical Test Analyst (Senior) at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

• As an Agile Test Analyst, you will be a key part of an Agile team and will have a huge impact on the quality of Discovery’s growing range of digital touchpoints and services that allow the Web and Mobile Systems to deliver all outbound and in-bound communications in the best possible way.
• The Digital Channels team works on dynamic new projects and product enhancements within the web and mobile platforms in order to improve business inefficiencies, gain competitive advantage on our products and ultimately to provide better service to our clients. Using knowledge of the organization’s technology infrastructure and specific software applications, Digital Channels helps the business to address changes through technologies.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Working as a collaborative member of the Agile Team
• Writing and executing test cases against stories, creating and maintaining automated tests in-line with agreed testing standards and practices
• Documenting defects and making these visible to the teams and the Product Owner
• Providing feedback on user stories from a quality point of view and promoting bug prevention strategies, testability, accessibility and other QA concepts
• Collaborating with other testers, BAs, developers, designers and other experts across the business to deliver business and customer value
• Being proactively involved in the end-to-end lifecycle of digital features including code reviews, user stories grooming, requirements understanding
• Actively participating in all relevant Agile ceremonies and cadences

Personal Attributes

The successful applicant must have proven experience and competencies in the following areas:

• Values Driven
• Optimistic
• Learns on the Fly
• Resilient
• Instils Trust
• People Savvy
• Drives Results
• Problem Solver

Skills

• Strong experience with: Cucumber, API Testing, Selenium WebDriver, Continuous Integration & Performance Testing
• Excellent working knowledge of test methodologies, writing test plans, creating test cases and debugging
• Extensive technical understanding across the digital domain
• A thorough understanding of testing/QA best practices
• Experience working in large, complex organisations
• Demonstrated experience in successfully contributing to development teams in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Understanding of common software failures and faults
• Knowledge of the domain (highly desirable)
• Knowledge of the system or application-under-test (highly desirable)
• Experience in a variety of testing efforts (desirable)
• Knowledge on various automation Frameworks (BDD, Data Driven, Keyword, Modular)
• Experience in Development and Maintenance of Automation Framework
• Toolstack Experience:  Jira, Jira-Xray, Confluence, Postman, SoapUI

 
Qualification and Experience

• Matric (Essential)
• IT related degree or diploma
• ISTQB Foundation Level Certification and/or Advanced Level(advantageous)
• Agile Methodology Certification
• 1 year Software Development experience