Pretoria: Senior Software Quality Engineer

Performance Testing – expertise in non-functional testing for API, Web and batch process. AI tools – experience in working with GitHub-Copilot, JSON, MQ, KAFKA and AZURE DevOps are mandatory. Reviewed and analysed Business Requirement Specifications (BRS) and Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) documents; collaborated with Business Analysts for requirement clarification and updates. Followed Agile methodology and actively participated in Scrum ceremonies: stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives. Utilised Jira for sprint planning, task tracking, and managing 2–3-week sprint cycles. Performed both manual and automation testing based on project requirements. Estimated testing efforts and designed positive/negative test scenarios; reviewed and refined them with business teams. Created test cases and test data using Excel, SoapUI, and Postman. Participated in all phases of the STLC: test planning, analysis, design, execution, defect tracking, and closure. Executed multiple testing types: Smoke, Sanity, Regression, Retesting, Cross-browser, and End-to-End testing. Validated staging environments, deployment changes, and auto-update processes. Collaborated with developers to clarify and log defects; tracked issues using Jira. Converted manual test cases to automation scripts and built a hybrid framework using Selenium WebDriver (Data-driven Page Object Model). Developed robust automation scripts for UI and API testing using Java, TestNG, JUnit, and BDD Cucumber within Agile framework 2.0. Expertise in using Java for writing UI and API automation scripts. Experienced in REST Assured API automation framework for backend/API testing. Performed cross-browser testing across Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Internet Explorer. Tested SOAP and REST APIs using SoapUI and Postman. Managed source code via GitHub and set up Jenkins pipelines for Continuous Integration (CI). Conducted UAT testing: Alpha testing with business stakeholders and Beta testing with clients. Provided daily test status reports to the respective Team Lead or Module Lead. Planning and effort estimations on testing strategies, aligned to business timelines. Credit Products Understanding – Know the ins and outs of products like personal loans, Vehicle asset-based finance, term loans, mortgages, overdrafts, and commercial lending. 8 years of experience required.