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SUMMARY :

NEW OPPORTUNITY :

Opportunity for a Software Test Engineer, Test Engineer, or similar role specializing in Automation Testing in areas such as Web Testing or API Testing, with relevant experience.

POSITION DETAILS :

• Ability to document and troubleshoot errors
• Excellent communication skills and attention to detail
• ISTQB Certification
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of Agile / Scrum methodologies
• Reviewing software requirements and preparing automation test scenarios
• Executing automation tests to assess software usability
• Proficiency with Selenium and Java tools

Description

We are seeking a skilled Test Engineer to join our team. As an integral member of our organization, you will be responsible for designing and conducting experiments to test equipment and functionality across various projects. The ideal candidate should possess a strong sense of common sense and intuition to devise effective testing strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Test Plan Development: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive test plans based on project requirements and specifications.
2. Experiment Design: Utilize your common sense and analytical skills to design experiments that effectively evaluate equipment and functionality.
3. Testing Execution: Conduct tests according to established test plans, ensuring accuracy, reliability, and repeatability of test results.
4. Data Collection and Analysis: Collect, organize, and analyze test data to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies. Draw meaningful insights from the data to inform decision-making processes.
5. Documentation: Document test procedures, results, and observations in a clear and concise manner. Prepare reports summarizing test findings and recommendations for improvement.
6. Continuous Improvement: Actively participate in process improvement initiatives to enhance testing methodologies, tools, and techniques.
7. Collaboration: Work closely with developers, engineers, and project managers to address issues, troubleshoot problems, and ensure product quality.
8. Quality Assurance: Ensure that testing activities adhere to quality standards and best practices. Identify and escalate quality issues as necessary.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Proven experience as a Test Engineer or similar role.
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, tools, and techniques.
• Demonstrated ability to design experiments and develop test plans.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or C.
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and continuous integration/delivery pipelines.
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Passion for software and contributing to the community.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, JUnit).
• Knowledge of Linux operating systems and command-line tools.
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban).
• Understanding of containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with performance testing and profiling tools.
• Certifications in software testing (e.g., ISTQB) are a plus.

Note: This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the role. It is not exhaustive and may be supplemented as necessary to meet the organisation's needs.

• Ability to document and troubleshoot errors
• Excellent communication skills & Attention to detail
• ISTQB Certified
• Analytical mind and problem-solving aptitude
• Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Reviewing software requirements and preparing automation test scenarios
• Executing Automation tests on software usability
• Good with Selenium and Java tools

SWATX Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

SWATX Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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SWATX is looking for an experienced Senior Test Engineer to join our innovative team. In this pivotal role, you will lead the testing efforts for our software products, ensuring the highest standards of quality and performance. You will be responsible for designing test strategies, developing robust test cases, and executing comprehensive testing plans across various stages of the software development life cycle.

Your expertise will be vital in mentoring junior team members, reviewing their work, and providing valuable feedback. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including development and product management, to identify and resolve defects early, thereby enhancing the product's quality and user experience.

In addition, you will be tasked with implementing automation testing frameworks, analyzing test results, and reporting issues to inform business decisions. Your contributions will be key to driving continuous improvement in our testing processes and overall software quality.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience in software testing, with a proven track record in a Senior Test Engineer role
• Technical Expertise: Strong proficiency in test automation tools and frameworks, as well as solid knowledge of manual testing techniques
• Leadership Skills: Experience leading testing efforts and mentoring junior engineers
• Analytical Skills: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail
• Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills, able to effectively articulate issues and solutions to stakeholders
• Agile Methodology: Familiarity with Agile software development practices and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes is preferred
• Certifications: Relevant testing certifications (e.g., ISTQB) are a plus

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Information Technology
• Industries IT Services and IT Consulting

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Gopele is a mission-driven EdTech platform designed to personalize learning for underserved learners across South Africa and Africa. Through our web and mobile applications, we deliver multilingual, curriculum-aligned content in Mathematics, Physical Science, and English using AI-powered adaptive learning tools. Our platform is designed to be intuitive, accessible offline, and responsive to different learner profiles.

About the Opportunity

Are you passionate about quality, detail, and ensuring technology works flawlessly for real users? Gopele is looking for a volunteer Quality Assurance (QA) Tester to join our product team and ensure that our platform is reliable, bug-free, and delivers the best learning experience possible to students and teachers.

Key Activities

• Execute manual functional, regression, and usability tests on mobile and web platforms.
• Validate UI elements against Figma design specifications.
• Create and document bug reports in GitHub with clear steps to reproduce.
• Collaborate with developers and designers to resolve issues quickly.
• Verify bug fixes and test new features before release.
• Assist in developing test plans and test cases for core modules like quizzes, dashboards, and adaptive learning flows.

Requirements

• Basic understanding of software QA methodologies and tools.
• Familiarity with GitHub or similar tools for tracking bugs and reporting.
• Strong attention to detail and clear communication.
• Bonus: Experience with Cypress, Selenium, or automated test frameworks.

Duration

• 3 hours/day, Monday to Friday
• Fully remote

Acquired Skills

• End-to-end experience testing an MVP product in an EdTech environment.
• QA documentation skills, test writing, and execution best practices.
• Collaboration with agile product and development teams.

Upon successful contribution, Gopele will provide:

• A testimonial on your SkilledUp Life profile
• A professional LinkedIn recommendation
• Permission to list Gopele as a contributor on your resume

Disclaimer

This is a volunteer opportunity and does not include financial compensation or guarantee of future employment. However, it offers real-world QA experience and a chance to contribute to an EdTech platform built to make a meaningful social impact.

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Job Title

Location

King George, VA 22485 US (Primary)

Category

Job Type

Full-time

Experienced (Non-Manager)

Education

High School / GED

Travel

Security Clearance Required

Secret

Job Description

TMC Technologies has recently been awarded a 5 year contract providing subject matter, systems engineering, software development, and test & evaluation expertise to the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division’s (NSWCDD) Warfare Systems Engineering and Integration (V) Department.

We are seeking a Junior Test Engineer to join our team on this new opportunity. While there is the potential for remote work, all personnel will initially be expected to work on-site in the Dahlgren area until performance is effectively established with the customer. Relocation assistance can be provided where applicable.

A SECRET (or higher) security clearance is required.

Job Requirements

Experience with:

- Interfacing systems such as sensor systems, track management systems, electronic warfare, self defense systems, displays, weapon systems and tactical data links
- Test plans, test procedures, and test scenarios
- Test observation reports, problem reports, and test reports
- Data collection / data extraction
- Test metrics

We are equal opportunity/affirmative action employers, committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under state or local law.

Job Title

Location

King George, VA 22485 US (Primary)

Category

Job Type

Full-time

Experienced (Non-Manager)

Education

High School / GED

Travel

Security Clearance Required

Secret

Job Description

TMC Technologies is searching for an Intermediate Test Engineer to be included in a bid effort to provide subject matter, systems engineering, software development, and test/evaluation expertise to the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) Systems Engineering and Integration (V) Department.

Work is expected to begin in August 2025. Selected candidates will be required to sign a Letter of Intent.

Three (3) years of general experience related to one or more of the following programs and tasks:

1. Inertial Navigation Systems
2. Position, Velocity, Attitude, Time systems
3. Shipboard Gridlock System with Auto-Correlation (SGS/AC)
4. Global Positioning System (GPS) and other Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)
5. DDG-1000
6. LCS
7. Composite Tracking Network (CTN)
8. Common Aviation Command and Control System (CAC2S)
9. Navy Marine Corps Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS)
10. Advanced Man Portable Air Defense System (AMANPADS)
11. Marine Air Defense Integrated System (MADIS)
12. Marine Fixed Sites
13. Marine Intercom System
14. Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System (LMADIS)
15. Medium Range Intercept Capability (MRIC)
16. Installation small Counter Unmanned Aircraft System (I-CsUAS)
17. Medium Range Air Defense Radar (MRADR)
18. Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR)
19. Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC)
20. Combined IAMD Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Trainer (CIAT)
21. Estimation of Precise Orbits and Clock to High Accuracy (EPOCHA)
22. Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR)

AND/OR:

Three (3) years of specific experience defined as:

1. Understanding of interfacing systems such as sensor systems, track management systems, electronic warfare, self-defense systems, displays, weapon systems and tactical data links in order to assess overall system and capability performance.
2. Working knowledge of creating, modifying and executing test plans, test procedures, and test scenarios.
3. Working knowledge of generation of test observation reports, problem reports, and test reports.
4. Experience performing data collection / data extraction.
5. Experience performing root cause analysis on command and control systems.
6. Experience assessing the operational and technical impacts of problems identified.
7. Experience in defining and tracking test metrics.

We are equal opportunity/affirmative action employers, committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under state or local law.

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Hello future Snr Performance Test Engineer,

Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen.

Job Description

Hello future Snr Performance Test Engineer,

Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen.

As part of our Core Banking Team , you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change.

Performance Testing is a software testing process used for testing the speed, response time, stability, reliability, scalability and resource usage of a software application under particular workload.

The main purpose of performance testing is to establish adherence to Non Functional Requirements and identify the performance bottlenecks in the software application.

The focus of Performance Testing is checking a software program's

Speed - Determines whether the application responds quickly

Scalability - Determines maximum user load the software application can handle.

Stability - Determines if the application is stable under varying loads

This is in contrast to Performance Engineering which focuses on eliminating bottlenecks identified during

testing with the recommendation and implementation of performant code constructs, infrastructure

enhancements and optimizations/tuning of systems and processes

Job Description:

• Work with application stakeholders and define non-functional requirements covering performance,
• scalability, availability, resiliency and reliability including Service Level Objectives and Agreements.
• Develop strategies to address the Non-functional requirements throughout Software or Product
• Development Life Cycle.
• Work with architecture and development teams in creating performant (functioning well or as
• expected), highly resilient and reliable architecture and design
• Work with architecture and development teams in implementing resiliency constructs, develop
• optimal code
• Work with QA to validate and certify if performance, scalability, availability, resilience and reliability
• requirements are met
• Develop tools and utilities to automate manual operational tasks in production
• Responsible for incidents related to Non- Functionals, updating standard operating procedure to
• capture right set of metrics/logs for RCA, Root cause analysis of the incidents, Solutions
• identification and ensure permanent closure of the incidents.
• Analyze production utilization and incidents patterns, identify improvement areas and implement
• automation to improve productivity, avoid manual tasks and recurring incidents.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with emphasis on executive communication
• Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly. Eagerness to learn new things
• Highly adaptable with the ability to move into a new project while setting up a performance strategy
• and approach and executing that plan to the satisfaction of all project/application stakeholders
• Experience
• Knowledge and Experience on Java Programming language with at least 2 years demonstrable
• experience. Candidate to be able to do and pass FNB Java assessment
• 2+ years of experience on Java/J2EE applications with one of web servers (Apache Tomcat, IBM
• HTTP Server, Apache HTTP Server), one of the application servers (WebSphere/Weblogic/JBoss),
• one of the databases (Oracle/SQLServer/DB2/Postgres)
  
  

• Mainframe and IMS
• Java
• Spring and Springboot
• JMS
• Tibco MS
• Active MQ
• IBM MQ
• Apache Kafka
• Postgres, MySQL, Oracle databases
• Kubernetes Clusters
• AWS + Azure Cloud Solutions
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Quality Assurance
• Industries Banking

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We are seeking a skilled Performance Test Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and executing performance tests to ensure the reliability, scalability, and stability of our software applications.

• Develop and implement performance test strategies, plans, and scripts based on project requirements and application architecture.
• Design and execute performance tests using industry-standard tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, or similar.
• Analyze test results, identify performance bottlenecks, and collaborate with development teams to resolve issues.
• Create and maintain performance testing environments and test data sets.
• Monitor system performance during load tests and identify opportunities for optimization.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define performance acceptance criteria and establish performance benchmarks.
• Generate comprehensive performance test reports and present findings to project teams and management.
• Stay updated on emerging trends, tools, and technologies in performance testing and make recommendations for process improvements.

• 5 to 8 years’ experience in Performance Test Execution and Automation Test Analysis.
• 3 to 6 years’ experience in conducting functional testing and automation testing as well as coordinating and reporting on User Acceptance testing preparation, execution, and sign off.
• Extensive knowledge of LoadRunner - MF ALM.
• Existing Knowledge of Manual testing - MF ALM.
• Limited knowledge of software development.
• Experience in Integration Performance Testing.
• API Performance Testing.
• Web services Performance Testing.
• Understanding of testing concepts i.e., testing methodologies and techniques.
• Experience in Automating API Services.