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Kampala, Uganda
Full-time
About the Organisation
MultiChoice Uganda is a subsidiary of the MultiChoice Group, a leading entertainment company in Africa. The company is renowned for providing a wide array of entertainment options, including satellite television, digital terrestrial television, and streaming services. MultiChoice operates popular brands such as DStv and GOtv, offering a rich variety of content from sports and movies to news and children's programming.
Since its inception, MultiChoice Uganda has been committed to bringing the best in entertainment to Ugandan households. The company's mission is to enrich lives through creative storytelling, technological innovation, and exceptional customer service. MultiChoice's investment in local content has also helped nurture the Ugandan film and television industry, creating numerous opportunities for local talent.
Job Title
Senior Engineer Automation Tester job at Multichoice Uganda
Job Description
The MultiChoice Group is a multinational media and entertainment group headquartered in South Africa, Dubai and the Netherlands with principal operations in pay television, video entertainment, advertising and content security. Brands within the Group include DStv, GOtv, SuperSport, M-Net, DStv Media Sales, Showmax and European-based content security leader Irdeto. We’re proud to say we serve 20 million subscribers across 52 African markets, with a successful history of identifying and adapting to industry trends, allowing us to continuously deliver the best in entertainment. Key areas of operations are:
Storytelling ranging from content creation, production and aggregation including the best global general entertainment, sport and eminent African content library, delivered to customers
Pay Television: direct-to-home satellite and digital terrestrial television services;
SVOD: subscription video on demand services across multiple online platforms with a focus on library and local content in developing markets, and
Advertising: providing dynamic media solutions; handling commercial airtime, on-air sponsorships, content integration, and online sales across a variety of 130+ channel brands on linear TV, VOD, social media, and digital platforms.
The group’s strength lies in its focus on local language and culture, its entrepreneurial spirit and the quality of its workforce. Multichoice Group has a successful history of identifying trends early, adapting them for the markets in which it operates and leveraging them to maximum advantage. The group generates revenues primarily through subscription model, with a growing contribution from advertising revenue. Its key objectives are to:
Expand Pay TV, SVOD subscriber base and Advertising sales
Focus on investment and technology
Maintain a local approach
Provide quality service
Attract innovative and motivated employees
Duties and Responsibilities
Test Engineering:
Participation in all agile team ceremonies with the view of increasing understanding of requirements, suggesting ways of implantation and identifying non-functional requirements
Analyze and translate business requirements into test scenarios and test cases, and execute tests independently
Design and script highly readable and extendable automated test scripts according to the automation development guidelines
Participate in automation code reviews and provide constructive feedback
Implement and contributing to framework improvements to improve automation code coverage
Participate in the creation and execution of load and performance tests and provide detailed report on test execution and recommendations
Ensure correct documentation of test cases
Perform test leadership tasks
Keeping abreast of the bigger picture over and above your immediate team
Keeping a view of the overall performance of our application and suggest ways of improving key areas
Support the DStv product by participating in product support initiatives
Monitor production environment using the available tools with a view of noticing potential issues before they impact the customer
Research, POC and implement improvements to our ways of working
Qualifications and Competencies
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology/Computer Science or Equivalent
ISTQB Foundation Level Testing certification
Qualifications Preferred
ISTQB Intermediate Level Testing certification
Agile certification
Experience
Minimum 5 years’ relevant experience in software testing
3 years automation testing experience developing regression and sanity tests using open source tools (UI and API)
1 year load and performance testing, monitoring and reporting
Working in a high pressure environment potentially supporting multiple teams with high demand in quality and delivery
Proven experience creating automation frameworks
Proven understanding of automation testing fundamentals
Knowledge of different types of load and performance testing techniques and tools
Preferred Testing technologies: Selenium Webdriver, Cucumber, Karate, Postman, Appium, Groovy, Rest Assured, IntelliJ, Charles Proxy, Gatling,Java, Python
Basic cloud infrastructure knowledge advantageous (AWS)
Experience in test leadership and mentorship
Technical Competencies
Keen troubleshooting and problem solving abilities
Understanding of development methodology
Creative thinking and detail orientated
Understanding different automation frameworks
Data management
Relationship management
How to Apply
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