QA Engineer

An Amazing Career Opportunity for Lead QA Engineer

Location: Durban, South Africa

Job ID: 32839

Profile Summary:

Do you enjoy breaking things and getting paid for it? Are you an instinctive troubleshooter and an inquisitive soul? If so, we want to hear from you!

Who are we? 

HID powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely.  We are a high-tech software company headquartered in Austin, TX, with over 4,000 worldwide employees. Check us out Check us out: www.hidglobal.com and https://youtu.be/23km5H4K9Eo LinkedIn:  www.linkedin.com/company/hidglobal/mycompany/

HID is an Innovative High-Tech Security Company!

At HID you will work as part of a team delivering high quality features and products to our customers. You will be involved in secure software development and have input on how best to achieve our goals.

As our Software Quality Engineer Lead, you’ll support HID’s success by: 

• Collaborating with developers and other quality assurance engineers to understand and clarify software requirements, develop test cases, and develop your product knowledge.
• Communicate with stakeholders to ensure the product best meets their expectations (this includes keeping stakeholders informed during SAFe rituals).
• Keep up to date with current best practices and trends and promote their adoption in HID.
• Own the test frameworks (automated and manual) and be responsible for their accuracy, reliability and coverage.
• Take end-to-end responsibility for projects, coordinating with the team and stakeholders to ensure high quality, on time releases.
• Oversee the implementation of automated testing and continuous integration.
• Improving HID’s automated testing tools and coverage, including identification of candidates for automation.
• Helping reproduces errors reported from the field, test fixes, and report results to management.
• Mentor less experienced QAs and test engineers.
• Analyse the test scenarios to ensure comprehensive coverage.
• Participating in backlog grooming and planning the testing activities ahead of time. This includes ensuring the acceptance criteria are well defined and testable.
• Keeping track of trends and anticipating problems before the arise in the field.
• Be a driving force for continuous improvement and more test-driven development.
• Define processes for and oversee the work done by the other QA/test engineers.

Your Experience and Education should include:     

• BS in Computer Science required or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of practical Software QA Engineering experience
• Strong cross-functional communication skills and the ability to work with Product Management, Desing and development
• Experience with functional testing, automation, and regression testing
• Experience with test planning and test case development
• Strong background in Quality Assurance methodologies
• Experience with white, gray, and black box testing techniques and methodologies
• Ability to manage the interoperability and continuous testing environments
• Excellent problem solving, troubleshooting and analysis skills
• Strict attention to detail
• Ability to work with minimum supervision with set priorities

 We would love experience with any of the following:

• Experience with Physical Access Control Systems is a tremendous benefit
• Test lab and test bed development
• Familiarity with Jira and Test Rail
• Experience with testing Web Services
• Experience testing embedded applications
• Good understanding of networking and ability to configure devices to connect on the network
• Experience with Jenkins or similar CI/CD
• Experience with IoT devices
• Familiarity with cyber security related tools and testing methodologies
• Experience with delivering products on a cadence
• Experience with DevSecOps and tools like Snyk and Zaproxy

Why apply? 

• Empowerment: You’ll work as part of a global team in a flexible work environment, learning and enhancing your expertise. We welcome an opportunity to meet you and learn about your unique talents, skills, and experiences. You don’t need to check all the boxes. If you have most of the skills and experience, we want you to apply.
• Innovation: You embrace challenges and want to drive change. We are open to ideas, including flexible work arrangements, job sharing or part-time job seekers.
• Integrity: You are results-orientated, reliable, and straightforward and value being treated accordingly. We want all our employees to be themselves, to feel appreciated and accepted.

This opportunity may be open to flexible working arrangements.

HID is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.

We make it easier for people to get where they want to go!
On an average day, think of how many times you tap, twist, tag, push or swipe to get access, find information, connect with others or track something.  HID technology is behind billions of interactions, in more than 100 countries.  We help you create a verified, trusted identity that can get you where you need to go – without having to think about it.  
 
When you join our HID team, you’ll also be part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, the global leader in access solutions. You’ll have 61,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.

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