About the Role:

Our team is looking for a Quality Assurance Automation Engineer who can quickly understand the products being built for the company. This position requires you to collaborate with various people across the organization, although primarily you will be working with the engineering and product teams.You will be testing the site manually, creating test cases and then automating them with tools and frameworks needed to effectively test our systems. With our team, you’ll get the opportunity to own & drive major initiatives across multiple products and orgs. We believe in teamwork and in delivering rock solid, customer focused solutions.

As our Quality Assurance Automation Engineer, you will:

• Analyze, report, and document issues found applying QA best practices

• Understand the development process and coordinate work with your team accordingly

• Create comprehensive test plans and execute them

• Create automated functional tests

• Work closely with other members of the Quality Assurance team to automate the high cost test plans to improve the overall team throughput

• Execute various phases of functional and nonfunctional testing to certify the quality of new software releases

• Conduct cross-browser testing to check the compatibility of applications across various browsers

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or alternative related field (or commensurate work experience)

• 1-3 years of relevant professional experience in QA

• Knowledge of software development life cycle and bug life cycle

• Familiarity with technologies like Selenium Webdriver and Pytest

• Knowledge in Python or similar programming languages

• Experience with Pycharm and Github Actions

• Experience with JIRA, TestRail / Testmo and Confluence

• Experience with Open source Databases like MySql, PostgreSQL

• Experience with API/backend services testing tools like Postman

• Excellent attention to detail

• Knowledge of bug triaging, Agile methodologies, SCRUM practices and QA effort

• Understanding of testing techniques (e.g. performance, automated), their strengths and weakness

• Proficiency in communication and interpersonal skills - both verbal and written

• Expertise in cross-browser/environment testing

At Noodle, we hire people who will help us change the future of online education. Even if you don't think you check off every bullet point on this list, we still encourage you to apply! We value both current experience and future potential

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The position will be located in South Africa and travel may be expected periodically for company/team events and client meetings either in South Africa or the Noodle office in New York.