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Website Takealot
Job Description:
A QA API Analyst’s job duties include planning, designing, and evaluating products, as well as collaborating with production management. The QA API Analyst makes sure that the finished product can be identified easily and tested thoroughly. Testing returned units, collecting data, and analyzing patterns are also among the test engineer’s duties.
Job Responsibilities:
- Read and comprehend requirements for testing
- Test case management, creation and execution
- Prioritisation of tasks, identification of items requiring escalation
- Analyse and capture testing metrics
- Develop status reports based on test completion/findings and communicate these to team leaders including any impact on the overall project plan
- Provide daily & weekly status test reporting to team lead
- Contribute to API automation repo
- Create test plans and test cases per business requirements
- Troubleshoot issues experienced during testing
- Perform regression testing when bugs are resolved
- Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs
- API backend testing (REST services, Kafka, SQL) using Postman and automation
- Perform all tasks with attention to detail
Job Requirements:
- Document results where deemed necessary
- Ability to work efficiently both independently and within the team
- Analyse requirements and identify test criteria
- Employ both manual and technical testing techniques to ensure that user experience and functionality testing is covered
- Attend and offer testing insights during design, planning and grooming sessions
- Self-motivated with strong capability of fast learning
- Ensure the solution elements match the acceptance criteria
- Ability to analyse and solve complex problems quickly and creatively.
- The ability to learn quickly in a dynamic environment.
- Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills. Additionally, the role requires a proven ability to read and understand test requirements and list out the logical testing path.
- Quick learner and can adapt to multiple project environments in a shorter time frame
- ISTQB/ISEB qualification will be an advantage
Qualification & Experience:
- Of those 5 years- you should have a minimum of 3 years Software testing (API and SQL DB) experience and a minimum of 2 years backend API automation experience using a programming language.
- Bachelors Degree or Advanced Diploma in Computer Science/Software Engineering/related technical discipline with 5 years of Technical backend testing applications solid experience.
- In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma (in Computer Science, Software Engineering or other technical related disciplines), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 8 years of Technical backend testing applications solid experience.
- Experience in testing multiple platforms that communicate with backend APIs and databases
- Experience managing testing throughout the SDLC
Job Details:
Company: Takealot
Vacancy Type: Full Time
Job Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, SA
Application Deadline: N/A
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