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Cape Town - South Africa

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

RoomRaccoon:

RoomRaccoon was founded by Nadja Buckenberger and Tymen Van Dyl in 2017 with a mission to redefine hotel operations through our allinone hotel management system.

Our diverse team of 110 professionals spread across 5 offices worldwide serves 2000 clients across Europe USA and Africa. Our benefits include equity formal training budget allowance annual hotel allowance as well as birthday and Xmas vouchers.

Interested Keep reading on!

Job title: Senior Automation Engineer

Location: Only considering applicationsbased in Cape Town South Africa

Language: English

Worktype: Onsite with one day WFH per week

Terms: Fulltime

Tasks

Your North Star

The mission of the Senior Automation Engineer is to define test scenarios for new features provide information on requirements analyse the product alleviate bug fixes and ensure that desired outcomes are achieved primarily focused on writing automated tests.

Day in the life of the Senior Automation Engineer

  • Testing and Quality Improvement: Constantly test new developments and features to improve the quality of our product including quality assurance reporting.
  • Test Plan Development: Develop and execute comprehensive test plans to ensure the quality and functionality of our software applications.
  • Collaboration: Collaborate with crossfunctional teams including developers and product managers to define test requirements and acceptance criteria.
  • Manual and Automated Testing: Perform manual and automated testing to identify software defects record and track issues and verify bug fixes.
  • Automation Frameworks: Design implement and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks to improve testing efficiency.
  • Regression Testing: Conduct regression testing to ensure that previously identified issues have been resolved and new features have not introduced regressions.
  • Load and Performance Testing: Design and execute load and performance tests to ensure the system can handle expected user loads and identify potential bottlenecks.
  • Best Practices: Introduce best practices for the testing process and ensure that they are applied across the organization.
  • Analysis and Recommendations: Analyse test results identify trends and recommend improvements to the development team.
  • CI/CD Processes: Participate in the design and implementation of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes to support agile development methodologies.
  • Risk Management: Partner with the Product Owner Lead Developer and Head of Product to identify any quality risks work on critical projects and provide advice in prioritizing test cases for automation.
  • Code Reviews: Contribute to the overall improvement of software quality by actively participating in code reviews and providing feedback on design and architecture.

Requirements

Key Skills:

  • Certification: ISTQB Foundation Certification
  • Experience: 58 years of solid QA experience
  • Programming Skills: Advanced programming skills using Java
  • Database Knowledge: Understanding of MySQL databases
  • Test Automation: Experience with test automation tools such as Selenium
  • Programming Concepts: Understanding of programming concepts and best practices such as OOP
  • IDE Experience: Experience using an IDE such as Eclipse NetBeans or IntelliJ IDEA
  • Troubleshooting: Expert at troubleshooting and diagnosing system issues
  • API Experience: Experience with API calls
  • Project Management Tools: Experience with project management tools such as Git Boards JIRA or Trello
  • CI/CD Tools: Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab is a plus
  • Quality Assurance Principles: Strong understanding of QA principles methodologies and best practices
  • Test Design Techniques: Proficiency in various test design techniques including boundary value analysis equivalence partitioning and state transition testing
  • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Indepth knowledge of the SDLC and the role of QA within it.
  • Quality Metrics: Familiarity with key quality metrics and how to use them to drive improvements
  • RiskBased Testing: Experience with riskbased testing approaches to prioritize testing efforts based on potential impact

Beneficial skills:

  • Certification: ISTQB Advanced Certifications
  • Experience: Experience in Testing Hospitality or Hotel Management Software
  • Test Automation: Experience with test automation tools such as Appium
  • Tools: Experience with TestRail Jenkins or TestNG
  • Load and Performance Testing: Experience with load and performance testing tools and methodologies

How to be successful as a Senior QA Engineer

  • Team Environment
  • FastPaced Environment
  • Testing Methodology
  • Automation Concepts
  • Communication Skills
  • Programming Experience

Benefits

Perks

  • Free Food Fridays
  • Mac environment
  • Medical Aid Contribution
  • Incentive based commission
  • Formal Training budget
  • Annual Hotel experience
  • Equity
  • Birthday & Christmas Vouchers

RoomRaccoon Values

  • Accountability
  • Beat Yesterday
  • Clock Speed
  • Deals a Deal
  • Empower Another

Disclaimer: Thanks so much for your excitement about joining RoomRaccoon! Were lucky to have so many talented people eager to be part of our team so were reviewing applications as they come in. If you dont hear from us within three weeks it means weve decided to move forward with other candidates this timebut dont be discouraged! Keep an eye on our careers page and wed love for you to apply for roles that fit your talents in the future!

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