Full Stack QA Engineer (Automation Testing)

SUMMARY:
Are you a meticulous Full Stack Quality Assurance Engineer (Automation Testing) with a passion for ensuring flawless software performance? We are offering a fantastic 2-year contract opportunity to lead end-to-end testing for a major, high-impact project (UMOJA) at one of the biggest financial services institutions in South Africa. This role covers a wide scope—backend and frontend testing, integration, automation, performance testing, and more. You'll also coordinate and report on Quality Assurance (QA) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), ensuring seamless execution and sign-off. If you're passionate about delivering quality and want to make a real difference, this is the perfect role for you!

POSITION INFO:
Requirements

• IT Degree or Diploma in a relevant field
• ISTQB Foundation Certification
• 5 to 8 years’ experience in Performance Test Execution and Automation Test Analysis and Execution, with minimum 3 years in the cloud environment and Data environments
• 3 to 6 years experience in conducting functional testing and automation testing as well as co-ordinating and reporting on User Acceptance testing preparation, execution and sign off
• Data testing to validate the UMOJA application’s reliability, stableness, and responsiveness under high loads.
• Performance testing to ensure that the UMOJA application performs optimally even when used by multiple users at the same time
• Latency Testing of the time is taken to transfer data messages between two points within the Platforms
• Failover testing of the application’s ability to call for additional resources when it encounters high traffic
• Capacity testing to test the maximum amount of traffic that can be handled by the system
• Extensive knowledge of LoadRunner - MF ALM
• Knowledge of software development languages (VB Scripting, C and Java)
• Experience in Integration Performance Testing
• API Performance Testing
• Web services Performance Testing
• Experience in ETL/BI Testing
• Understanding of testing concepts i.e. testing methodologies and techniques
• Experience in automating API Services

• Knowledge of the BPT (Business Process Testing) Framework
• Ability to code in C#, JavaScript and JAVA
• Advanced ISTQB TA or equivalent
• Jira and Confluence Experience

• Creating Test Scripts, working from Business, functional and Technical Requirements documents for guidance, and in partnership with business stakeholders for User Acceptance testing
• Validating that Technical (Performance) requirements and Business needs are met by development of accurate test cases
• Planning testing in a timely manner to ensure requirements are met and signed off
• Executing test scripts and analysing test results
• Operating in DevSecOps environment
• Develop and configure Performance test automation networks
• Develop and execute test automation scripts using UFT and Selenium
• Develop and execute Performance test scripts using LoadRunner and J-Meter
• Develop and execute test automation through LoadRunner – MF ALM plugin
• Execute integration testing
• Estimate tests accurately and coordinate with team members for work activities
• Apply, design and develop automated testing strategies and build automated testing frameworks
• Analyse and verify best automated and manual test approaches and execute, understand test objective requirements
• Define regression packs based on critical business processes
• Automate the regression suite and maintain these scripts accordingly, and
• Any other services or task ancillary to, or closely related to the above
• Train and support the organization’s personnel on Performance Testing, Automation Testing and Integration Testing