Test Engineer

Essential Qualifications/Experience:

·       Bachelor's degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 2 years post-related experience

·       2+ years recent experience in planning and execution of test, verification and validation activities in large complex projects

·       2+ years recent experience with functional, non-functional and interoperability testing of systems and products

·       Proven experience with managing external stakeholders and co-workers during the execution of large complex projects

·       Ability to understand and reason about hardware and software systems architectures typically found in system design documents

·       Ability to understand technical concepts such as DNS, NTP, Email, Databases, Application architectures and inter-application communication protocols

·       Ability to communicate with clarity, coherence, conciseness and engagement, both orally and in writing

·       Certification in the area of test, verification and validation such as ISTQB or a similar certification at the foundation level

DUTIES/ROLE:

·       Provides advice and guidance to support the adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards

·       Tailors processes in line with agreed standards and evaluation of methods and tools

·       Reviews and improves usage and application of methods and tools

·       Acceptance testing

ü  Develops acceptance criteria related to functional and non-functional requirements, business processes, features, user stories and business rules

ü  Designs, specifies and executes test cases and scenarios to test that systems, products and services fulfil the acceptance criteria and deliver the predicted business benefits

ü  Collaborates with project colleagues and stakeholders involved in the analysis, development and operation of products, systems or services to ensure accuracy and comprehensive test coverage

ü  Analyses and reports on test activities, results, issues and risks including the work of others

·       Systems integration and build

ü  Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of system components and equipment for systems testing

ü  Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress

ü  Defines complex/new integration builds

ü  Ensures that integration test environments are correctly configured

ü  Designs, performs and reports results of tests of the integration build

ü  Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system

ü  Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools

·       Configuration management

ü  Applies tools, techniques and processes to track, log and correct information related to configuration items

ü  Verifies and approves changes ensuring the protection of assets and components from unauthorised change, diversion and inappropriate use

ü  Ensures that users comply with identification standards for object types, environments, processes, life cycles, documentation, versions, formats, baselines, releases and templates

ü  Performs audits to check the accuracy of the information and undertakes any necessary corrective action under direction