[Hiring] QA Automation Engineer @Noodle

Role Description

Our team is looking for a Quality Assurance Automation Engineer who can quickly understand the products being built for the company. This position requires you to collaborate with various people across the organization, although primarily you will be working with the engineering and product teams. You will be testing the site manually, creating test cases and then automating them with tools and frameworks needed to effectively test our systems. With our team, you’ll get the opportunity to own & drive major initiatives across multiple products and orgs. We believe in teamwork and in delivering rock solid, customer focused solutions.

• Analyze, report, and document issues found applying QA best practices
• Understand the development process and coordinate work with your team accordingly
• Create comprehensive test plans and execute them
• Create automated functional tests
• Work closely with other members of the Quality Assurance team to automate the high cost test plans to improve the overall team throughput
• Execute various phases of functional and nonfunctional testing to certify the quality of new software releases
• Conduct cross-browser testing to check the compatibility of applications across various browsers

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or alternative related field (or commensurate work experience)
• 1-3 years of relevant professional experience in QA
• Knowledge of software development life cycle and bug life cycle
• Familiarity with technologies like Selenium Webdriver and Pytest
• Knowledge in Python or similar programming languages
• Experience with Pycharm and Github Actions
• Experience with JIRA, TestRail / Testmo and Confluence
• Experience with Open source Databases like MySql, PostgreSQL
• Experience with API/backend services testing tools like Postman
• Excellent attention to detail
• Knowledge of bug triaging, Agile methodologies, SCRUM practices and QA effort
• Understanding of testing techniques (e.g. performance, automated), their strengths and weakness
• Proficiency in communication and interpersonal skills - both verbal and written
• Expertise in cross-browser/environment testing

Benefits

• Work from the comfort of your home office!
• Great compensation package
• Tools you need on us! Laptop (Mac is our computer of choice) and EcoFlow inverter
• 12 weeks paid Parental Leave benefits
• 20 working days annual leave + 10 paid national holidays
• Medical/RA benefit
• Internet benefits
• Full access to our employee assistance program (EAP) through Company Wellness
• Annual education stipend for lifelong learning

Eligibility Requirements

• This position is based in South Africa. Applicants must be legally authorized to live and work in South Africa and must maintain residency within South Africa throughout their employment.
• Proof of eligibility and residency will be required upon hiring.