Description

As a Quality Assurance Test Automation Engineer, you will work closely with the engineering agile teams and stakeholders to help build and evolve Investec's automated testing capability and framework to ensure continuous delivery of high-quality code.  You will design, implement and maintain automated test frameworks, integrate them into our CI/CD pipelines, and champion a shift left, AI augmented testing culture. You will collaborate closely with developers, business analysts and DevOps to ensure every release meets Investec's quality, security and regulatory standards. You will work with Product, Support and Customer teams to identify high-impact bugs and coordinate fixes and ways to prevent them through automation with the engineering team.

Result

• Automated regression, API and performance suites coverage of critical user journeys.
• Improve release cycle time thanks to reliable, fast feedback loops.
• Defect escape rate to production reduces year‑on‑year.
• CI/CD pipeline health dashboards surface quality gates and AI‑generated test insights in real time.
• Development teams adopt automation best‑practice through your coaching and enablement.
• Test plans and Test cases
• Defect management
• Regression maintenance
• Active participation in QA guild and the QA community.
• Undertake any reasonable duties, aligned to your skills, that are required to achieve team objectives

Experience, skills and capability

•    Degree or diploma including 4+ years working years' experience in the testing competency (Automated and Manual)
•    AZ900 Certification and other azure certifications relevant to a QA
•    Experience with test automation and continuous integration/delivery tools such as Playwright, Cucumber, Cypress, Appium, JMeter, Selenium, RestAssured, RestSharp.
•    Proficiency with Azure Devops
•    Hands-on experience building and maintaining Azure DevOps Pipelines and Test Plans, orchestrating load tests with Azure Load Testing, and instrumenting releases with Azure Monitor/Application Insights. 
•    Support the maintenance and enhancement of the CI/CD pipeline
•    Strong technical knowledge and an ability to train development teams in the usage of test frameworks and infrastructure
•    Ability to navigate SQL or run work queries to set up test data & validate technical aspects of initiatives
•    Knowledge with REST API and WEB/Mobile GUI testing as well as experience writing automated API tests
•    Familiarity with AI‑enabled testing tools and enthusiasm for exploring emerging approaches.
•    Excellent problem‑solving, communication and stakeholder‑management skills; comfortable working in agile, DevOps‑oriented environments.

Investec Culture 

At Investec we look for intelligent, energetic people filled with passion, integrity and curiosity. We value individuals who in turn value our culture that is, a flexible attitude comfortable to live with ambiguity and willing to challenge the status quo. Diversity, talent and leadership are respected in pursuit of the growth of our business. People who can manage themselves and build strong relationships in order to get things done, will perform in out of the ordinary ways in our environment. 

We are committed to diversity and inclusion when recruiting internally and externally.