Test Engineer

We are recognized internationally as a leading-edge innovator and preferred independent global
supplier of telecommunications solutions to national governments and law enforcement
communities. We obsess over requirements, analysis, design, and user experience to deliver just the
right product that promotes user adoption and delights customers. This role is remote in Cape Town.

Help us to extend our position as a market leader providing insights into telecommunication big data
delivered by very large distributed processing systems. Be part of a development team passionate
about building robust, reliable, high-throughput systems used by hundreds of expert operators,
analysts, and administrators.

Become a vital and high contributing team member by advancing our test strategy, validating
product features, and translating user stories into representative test cases. As a test engineer, you will develop and implement frameworks to ensure the quality of our user-facing software components. You will develop in-depth knowledge of our product features and feature interactions. You will consider and evaluate items on the product backlog to develop test cases and contribute to the product road map from test and qualification outputs.

You will help to establish integration test tools, including data retrieval and analysis
from a data warehouse and a service platform architecture.

To perform in this role you will have to interact with:
 The Product Owner to understand UI requirements that flow from the product roadmap
 Software Engineers to understand the architecture and implementation decisions
 Integration Engineers to release qualified user interfacing components
 Solution Engineers to understand expectations and solicit feedback
 Team members are responsible for delivering a quality UI product by collaborating and
participating in the team’s agile culture and scrum ceremonies

As a minimum you:
 Hold an appropriate tertiary qualification (at least a Bachelor’s degree at NQF level 7)
 Have demonstrated advanced skills in at least one programming language and environment

It will be to your benefit if you have:
 Test certification or postgraduate qualification in software testing
 experience as a test engineer in software development or engineering environment
 Experience with test automation frameworks and tools
 CI/CD experience in a DevOps role
 Skill in our tech stack

You are expected to work with the following technologies:
 For CI/CD, Test Automation, and Scrum Ceremonies
o Confluence
o JIRA / Zephyr
o Bitbucket
o Artifactory
o Maven
o Git
o Bamboo / Jenkins
o Jest / Nightwatch / Java Meter / Blaze Meter

 For rich user interfaces
o HTML and CSS
o Javascript and Typescript
o gRPC and gRPC-web
o Vue.js ecosystem

 For Data, DevOps, Scripting, Analysis
o Wireshark
o Java
o Python Pandas
o Apache Kafka
o SQL and Vertica
o Linux / Windows OS

You have the following attributes:
 innovative, revel in solving tough problems and revealing unique solutions
 detail-oriented and curious, seek to gain a deep understanding of the domain
 excellent verbal and written communication skills to promote collaboration
 aspire to learn new skills and research to gain knowledge
 take initiative, works independently with little need for supervision
 desire to improve and drive change that leads to higher productivity for the whole team

Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.