Trainee QA Engineer at Altron Bytes Systems Integration

Job Description
Job Function:
JSE-listed Altron, founded in 1965 has a direct presence in South Africa, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Australia, employing more than 8 500 employees globally.

• Altron combines technical expertise with in-depth customer understanding to provide end-to-end holistic technology solutions.
• Altron Bytes Systems Integration, a division of Altron (Pty) Ltd, is an end-to-end ICT service provider of consulting, implementation and outsourcing services, that partners to help clients in two main ways: Driving value and optimizing client investment in current and legacy systems, applications and infrastructure.
• Most organizations are planning or have embarked on a digital transformation journey. This journey is certainly more than deploying technology – it is a shift in the entire business model and talks to the ‘pace of change’ that an organisation must go through, driven by the rapid adoption of technology. Altron Bytes Systems Integration has a clear go-to-market strategy in key industries covering: Financial Services, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment, Public Sector, Retail, Mining & Manufacturing, Travel & Transport, Energy & Utilities.
• We are looking for a Trainee QA Engineer. The successful candidate in this role will form a part of the Quality Assurance Team to ensure that a high-quality product is delivered to our Client.
• Your main function will be that of a QA Analyst and Test Automation Engineer. We need a person who is passionate about Testing, Test Automation and Quality. You need to perform Testing as well as Develop and Maintain the automation code in accordance with specifications and agreed timescales.

Responsibilities

Manual Testing

• Requirement Analysis; Create test plans and test scripts; Execute test plans.
• Identify and analyse defects. Log defects and track defect resolution.
• Create and maintain Automation test cases.
• Maintain quality assurance environment.
• Perform manual feature testing

Test Automation

• Implement automation tools and frameworks using CI/CD pipelines.
• Design, develop, document and implement Test Automation solutions
• Collaborate with team members to improve the company’s engineering tools
• Develop and maintain design and troubleshooting documentation
• Perform unit testing
• Troubleshooting, support, problem solving and analysis for users
• Compliance with procedures and processes

Job Requirements
Education Required:

• N. Diploma or B-Tech/ Degree in Information Technology / Computer Science / Engineering degree

Experience Required

• 0 to 2 years formal testing experience. We will consider Grads.

Essential Competencies

• High attention to detail and accuracy
• Deadline driven, able to work in pressurised environment
• Compliance with procedures and processes
• Must be able to work well as part of a team and independently
• Good analysis skills; Good problem solving skills.
• Must have a positive and professional attitude.
• Good communication skills

Advantageous Competencies

• Software testing experience
• Implementing and integrating code deployment tools (eg Puppet, Ansible, Chef, etc.)
• Deployment Tools (eg. Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.)
• Integration with code repositories (eg GitLAB, GitHUB, BitBucket, etc.)
• Experience with scripting and scripting languages (eg Python, etc.)
• Knowledge and implementation of branching and merging strategies (Git Flow, Trunk-based development, etc.)
• Experience/Knowledge in software development methodologies (Agile, Waterfall)SQL
• Python and/or Java (or a similar language)
• J-Meter (or any other Performance testing tools)
• SOAPUI (or any API testing tool)
• Selenium (or any Front-end testing tool)
• J-unit (or any unit testing tool)
• Cloud exposure (Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• Container deployment, scaling, management, etc. (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.)
• Experience in telecommunications industry
• ISTQB certification
• Test Automation Engineering experience
• DEVOps, CI/CD experience