Job Description

Designation:
Quality Assurance Engineer


Category:
Group Digital


Level:



Closing date:
10 Nov 2023


Position Type:
Permanent


Location:
MultiChoice Technology




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The Organization The MultiChoice Group is a multinational media and entertainment group headquartered in South Africa, Dubai and the Netherlands with principal operations in pay television, video entertainment, advertising and content security. Brands within the Group include DStv, GOtv, SuperSport, M-Net, DStv Media Sales, Showmax and European-based content security leader Irdeto. Wexe2x80x99re proud to say we serve 20 million subscribers across more than 50 African markets, with a successful history of identifying and adapting to industry trends, allowing us to continuously deliver the best in entertainment. By joining our passionate and creative team, you can help us achieve our objectives of expanding our pay-TV and SVOD (Subscription Video On demand) subscriber bases, improving advertising sales, spearheading cutting-edge technology, supporting local content, and providing an exceptional customer experience. Join Africaxe2x80x99s most loved storyteller!
Position Name: Quality Assurance Engineer Reports to: Tools and Data Intelligence Manager Direct Reports: 0 Division: Technology Department: Digital Enablement Key Customers

• Business Relationship Manager
• Software Architect
• Software Developers
• Tools Team Customers

• Video Entertainment group

Location: Johannesburg, Randburg
Purpose of the Position: Responsible for delivery of a well-structure and standard designed, quality assurance solution on all assigned projects
Key Performance Objectives Operational Delivery

• Support an agile team in analyzing, designing, building and testing high quality software that meets and exceeds our customer expectations
• Create, review and perform functional and nonfunctional, integration, regression, system, smoke, sanity, performance tests and test strategies
• Submit, verify and track defects, documentation and test results
• Create and/or modify automated tests
• Develop tools and scripts to assist with activities
• Create and maintain reusable components and libraries
• Manage multiple projects concurrently
• Create and manage test environments

Benchmarking & Governance

• Technical coordination and negotiation with all internal and external stake holders on new product development, feature request roadmap, bug rating and impact assessment on complete MCA infrastructure were applicable.
• Ability to explain the big picture and complex technical issues in a way that non-technical people may understand.
• Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering across MCA infrastructure.

Qualifications Essential:

• Degree in Technology, business or similar qualification

Experience

• Minimum of 5 - 7 yearsxe2x80x99 experience in software testing with increasing levels of responsibility
• Experience setting up and working with automation frameworks such as Selenium.

Technical Competencies (List the key technical competencies)

• Experience in testing desktop, server and web applications
• Strong knowledge of relational databases
• Strong knowledge of the software development process xe2x80x93 including but not limited to Agile development methodologies
• Software debugging/troubleshooting
• Software build management
• Experience with CI tools such as Jenkins
• Experience with quality measuring tools such as SonarQube
• Experience in functional and nonfunctional testing
• Experience with GIT source control
• Can create and manage test environments
• Experience in MS SQL DBMS
• Experience with MS Profiler, SoapUI, JMeter, Selenium