Description
Quality Automation Engineer (Digital)
Eblocks is a future-focused software company and community of passionate, purpose-led individuals. We think disruptively to deliver technology to address our clients' toughest challenges, all while seeking to impact society positively with technology.
As Africa’s first future-focused technology company we focus on social impact, we work with manufacturing, retail and healthcare, agriculture, and other companies to achieve big goals. With specialists working across Industrial Engineering, Physics, Statistics as well as others we're the technology partner of choice for organizations that are looking to make big changes to their current industries.
This time we are looking for a Quality Automation Engineer. Here is what this role would require.
As an Automation Quality Engineer you can look forward to:
- As part of an agile team, you are involved from the requirements analysis and planning to delivery and acceptance by our customers
- You will have the opportunity to work with various team members throughout the program to ensure that quality is an integral part of processes and technology
- You will gain experience in practices such as Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Continuous Integration (CI), and Continuous Delivery (CD) with us every day
- You will take responsibility for manual, exploratory, and automated tests and continuously optimize the associated processes and infrastructures
- You are also responsible for coaching the team and our customers in agile best practices
- You benefit from the exchange of ideas and experiences with our internal and external QA community
You bring this with you:
- Experience in a wide range of frameworks and tools for efficient testing (Example: Selenium, Jest, Protractor, Cucumber, SQL Scripting, etc)
- Basics for testing web, API
- You will learn what it takes to get the job done. Whether that means going back to the drawing board with a problem or simply assuming various roles and responsibilities for a period of time
- Experience in working with agile, lean, and/or continuous delivery approaches is desirable
- It is an advantage if you have already left your footprint in the QA community, e.g. through conferences, meetups, blog posts, etc.
- You feel comfortable working in remote and onsite environments.
We help our customers to adopt DevOps approaches, break out of rigid, traditional ways of working and move to a more customer-focused and agile approach.
Our approach to software engineering applies across industries and organizations, so you’ll experience all types of teams, products, and technologies.
So if you have a passion for high-quality, reliable, and maintainable code. You’re comfortable working side by side with weird but smart people such as product owners, UX/UI designers, and clients, making decisions together in order to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users.
More importantly, if you judge your success by the success of your team and the happiness of our customers, you are likely someone we want to talk with.