Technical Test Engineer

Technical Test Engineer

Experience:

3+ years

Where the job is based:
Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2-3 days in the office

Kerv South Africa solve complicated problems with great digital experiences. We combine Power Platform, Dev Sec Ops , Data Science and Software Engineering to achieve measurable business outcomes for our clients. Headquartered in Birmingham and part of Kerv, we are part of a £50m revenue global organisation, with over 450 employees, working with over 800 sector‑leading clients, with offices in London, Birmingham, Stellenbosch, and Bangalore.

Kerv is an ethically led organisation, and we are proud of our values. Our mission to Build Future and make a positive difference in society helps guide us to choose to work primarily with Nonprofit and Public Sector organisations. We encourage all our developers and designers to embrace the latest technologies, frameworks, and cloud deployment platforms to help our clients achieve more.

We relish the difficult problems and integration challenges and guarantee our developers are never bored.

We are proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work by independent assessors in both the UK and India. We can offer you an inclusive, collaborative atmosphere to develop your skills as part of a global multi‑discipline development team with opportunities to be mentored by forward‑thinking architects.

Join us today to work closely with household name clients, build your technical prowess, and make new friends along the way.

We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Test Engineer with a proven background in the testing of technical solutions, in a microservices architecture, to join our team to ensure the quality and reliability of the projects we deliver to our clients. You will bring years of experience, understanding and practical application in all levels and types of testing and a good understanding and usage of AWS services to assist in the set‑up and triggering of test conditions.

You will be responsible for testing of solutions we deliver in a custom microservices and architecture project, executing tests from a backend and front‑end UI perspective, in accordance with the criteria in user stories. You will be writing and executing manual test cases, carrying out positive and negative testing, accessibility testing and scripting and carrying out documented exploratory testing.

• Manual test case creation and execution for Sprint development and solution releases
• Manual regression test execution to supplement automated regression tests
• Accessibility test execution
• Exploratory test planning and execution
• Work with the sprint team members to be aware of development and testing in scope, to identify your testing scope of the sprint
• Identify and document defects and re‑test when resolved
• Conduct API testing to ensure seamless integration and functionality
• Collaborate with developers and business analysts to understand requirements and design test cases
• Report and track defects, and work with the development team to resolve issues
• Participate in test planning, estimation, and risk analysis activities

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in testing but crucially 3 years in the technological & main responsibilities required for this role
• ISTQB Certification (Foundation or Advanced)
• Experience of testing web‑based solutions built in a microservices architecture where some of the testing is in the back end microservices, using AWS to trigger services and events to aid test execution, and set up of conditions and set up of data as well as testing at the UI layer
• Hands‑on understanding and experience with API testing
• Experience in AWS and Docker
• Familiar with test and bug management tools and processes, specifically JIRA and Zephyr Enterprise
• Ability to develop functional tests, which exercise the UI, API and DB layers
• Good awareness and experience in Accessibility Testing and Exploratory Testing
• Highly delivery focused and proactive approach to testing, engaging effectively with all types of team members to drive projects forwards and not afraid to speak up and contribute in meetings
• Familiarity with Scrum methodology and how testing activities fit in