Quality Engineer III at American Express Company South Africa

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Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

24 Dec, 25

Salary

0.0

Posted On

25 Sep, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Quality Engineering, Automation Testing, Test Methodologies, CI/CD, API Testing, Performance Testing, Regression Testing, Defect Management, Software Development Life Cycle, Collaboration, Continuous Improvement, Test Data Management, Root Cause Analysis, Agile Methodologies, Coding Standards, Testing Frameworks

Industry

Financial Services

Description

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career. Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express. How will you make an impact in this role? We are on the journey to develop a best in class, modern communications and storage solution for the enterprise, to support the digital first strategy, improve our cost efficiency and ensure better self-service for all our consumers as part of our technology roadmap. With billions servicing communications being sent and stored annually, we are continuing to invest in innovation, modernization and leading-edge technologies is critically important, especially as we move through our platform and product journey. We are looking for a Quality Engineer III to deliver world-class software solutions supporting our platform vision. This includes using leading-edge modern technology stack, fostering engineering culture, innovation using new capabilities, designing and building new ways to enhance and expose our capabilities via API’s, cultivating continual improvement in system quality, performance, and robust coding frameworks. Our Quality Engineers understand that “good enough” is never enough. They are experts in automation, testing and quality assurance. They are driven to continuously raise the bar – ensuring that only the highest quality code is released; as that is what our business and our customers depend on. Translate user needs into system requirements, solution design and acceptance criteria, partnering with product owners, engineers and architects to ensure our solutions meet the business needs in terms of functional, non-functional, performance and resilience expectations. Develop automation test frameworks that drive efficiency, resilience and meaningful test coverage throughout the testing journey with high coding standards and ease maintainability. Ensure adherence to CI/CD toolsets. As Quality Engineer III, you will also bring your automation testing skill and quality engineering mindset to the team to provide skilled support and an enthusiastic and enquiring mindset to actively promote learning and continued growth of our teams testing maturity and effectiveness. I you will be hands on with the test framework development and maintenance, supporting a variety of testing challenges with an attention to detail and collaboration within the scrum team and beyond. Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and/or comparable experience; advanced degree preferred • Knowledge of test methodologies, test data management tools (e.g., CA DEVTEST, WIREMOCK, Optim, Datafinder SoapUI, JMeter, Selenium WebDriver, page object, TestNG etc.) and programming languages Key Responsibilities • Designs and implements detailed test cases and scripts for Systems Integration, Regression, and Performance Testing to ensure high-quality software applications • Conducts quality assurance projects and continuous improvement initiatives to refine quality assurance processes and tools while coordinating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders • Advances the creation of test plans, determines testing resource needs, and schedules testing activities to ensure thorough and timely testing • Actively engages in design discussions to identify and mitigate defects early, providing recommendations for user story backlog requirements with a focus on consumer impact • Drives the development and execution of continuous integration/continuous deployment automation processes, contributing to the team's automation strategy and fostering innovation in testing methodologies • Tracks defect resolution and performs root cause analysis to identify underlying issues, ensuring long-term solutions are implemented • Collaborates and co-creates effectively with teams in product and the business to align technology initiatives with business objectives Work Experience • Software engineering and development experience or a related job, with a focus on quality engineering • Experience in writing test cases, running functional, automated, or performance tests, and managing and mitigating defects • Experience in Software Development Life Cycle (test, defect, reporting and metrics, etc.) • Experience in automation and testing in a continuous deployment/continuous integration environment • Experience in quality scanning tools, ability to baseline and measure on-going quality metrics, and display via Dashboards • Experience in working with the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s) • Experience in application programming interface testing, accessibility testing, chaos testing, security testing, performance testing, user interface testing, disaster recovery and relevant frameworks We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally: Competitive base salaries Bonus incentives Support for financial-well-being and retirement Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location) Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program Career development and training opportunities American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

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Responsibilities

The Quality Engineer III will design and implement detailed test cases and scripts for various testing types to ensure high-quality software applications. They will also drive the development and execution of automation processes and collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technology initiatives with business objectives.