Technical Writer Opportunity

Remuneration: | R15000 – R25000 per month Basic salary |
Location: | Cape Town |
Type: | Permanent |
Reference: | #LDB |
Job description
Our client is currently looking for a technical author. The successful candidate will gather and document key development outputs, which enhance the product.Duties:
- Gather and document key development outputs, which enhance the product
- Work with a wide range of internal stakeholders
- Report feedback in a pro-active manner to all stakeholders, managers, directors and colleagues
- Work with the product team, the development team and the QA team to ensure all software enhancements are documented in a timely manner
- Become a subject matter expert on key modules of the application
- Provide the implementation teams with clear and concise information on all software functionality
- Develop and maintain a strong relationship with the appropriate client facing teams
- Have a strong awareness of all new product features
- Ensure all new software enhancements are clearly communicated/documented to the training and implementations teams
- Ensuring the adherence to all quality and health and safety policies, practices and procedures
Requirements
Desirable skills and experience:
- IT related diploma or degree relating to software development
- Experience of testing content management systems and automation tools
- Proven experience with Selenium Web-Driver using Java with a minimum of two years’ experience
- Automated performance testing.
- API driven testing.
- Knowledge of SQL Server
- Experience testing on windows(ASP.Net, .Net, SQL) , GUI applications, web services and/or web applications (back-end and front-end) .
- Proven understanding of white box, grey box and black box testing techniques
- Excellent understanding of software design techniques
- Solid understanding of object oriented programming, design and debugging skills.
- Exposure to FitNesse and Test or Behaviour Driven Development.
- Experience of source control systems and configuration management.
- Experience programming at least one object oriented language preferably Java.
- Experience in Agile development methodologies preferable.
Advantageous
- API testing experience using JMeter will give an advantage.
- ITSTQB certification would be an advantage
Posted on 05 Jun 15:00 APPLY NOW