Black Pen Recruitment is a diversified specialist recruitment consultancy situated in the heart of Cape Town, led by highly respected recruitment professionals, each accomplished in their own right to consult and deliver on staff placement assignments.
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Do you have at least 2 years’ experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer? Are you looking for a remote job? Then we have the opportunity for you!
As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you will make an extremely high impact on a small, fast scaling team. You'll have the ability to help build a product used by thousands of people. Each member of the team can impact all aspects of the development process from ideation, design, delivery, maintenance, and operations.
Responsibilities
Interface with Business Analysts and Software Engineers to develop and implement test plans and test cases
Develop, update and maintain test plans, cases, and automation (where applicable) for all software layers
Execute various levels and types of testing such as smoke, functional, integration, performance, and regression tests (manual and automated)
Research, identify and document software defects
Contribute to process improvement efforts related to all aspects of software quality to reduce defects and quality issues
Install and control test configurations and environments
Contribute to project plan estimates and scheduling of testing activities that meet standards
Ensure Customer satisfaction through mapping out recurring problems and bugs and delivering fast solutions and hotfixes
Communicate with Customer Support team to develop effective solutions to recurring problems
Perform and participate in code reviews
Requirements
3+ years of progressively responsible software engineering and DevOps experience
At least 2 years working as an QA Engineer
Familiarity testing web applications and using NOSQL
Experience writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
Excellent data, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis skills
Hands-on experience working with automated testing tools
Experience working in AWS, with a strong desire to further one’s skills