Quality Assurance Tester - Intermediate to Senior
Concord EFS
Date: 1 day ago
City: Johannesburg, Gauteng
Contract type: Full time

- Assess Current QA Practices
- Review manual testing processes, coverage, and defect workflows.
- Identify risks and inefficiencies affecting automation readiness/reliability.
- Define Implementation Strategy Using the Chosen Framework
- Provide a detailed test automation plan.
- Prioritize automating high-value test cases (e.g., regression paths, repetitive tasks).
- Establish Governance and Ownership
- Define responsibilities for test automation execution and maintenance.
- Recommend version control, test lifecycle processes, and coding standards.
- Design for Scalability and Maintainability
- Propose modular test design for scalability.
- Recommend strategies to reduce test flakiness through better data management.
- Integrate with CI/CD and Delivery Workflows
- Define how automated tests integrate with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., triggers, reporting).
- Recommend quality gates (e.g., pass rates, code coverage thresholds).
- Propose a Future-Proof Roadmap
- Deliver a phased plan to expand automation (e.g., smoke, regression, API).
- Include timeline for non-functional automation (e.g., performance, accessibility).
- Establish Metrics and Continuous Improvement
- Recommend QA KPIs (e.g., defect leakage rate, automation ROI).
- Propose a continuous improvement loop for better coverage, speed, and effectiveness.
- Excellent software Quality Assurance to test and simulate all possible SIT and UAT test scenarios
- Software manual as well as automation testing
- QC standards
- Test plans for SIT, UAT and Production Release testing
- Adequate SQL, Microsoft access and Microsoft Excel skills
- Willingness and ability to learn other QC tools
- Software Development fundamentals
- Critical thinking skills
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- The ability to clearly communicate complex test results to technical and non-technical audiences
- College or University degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or quantitative field
- SCRUM and Agile Methodology
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