We are pleased to announce the following Position in the Digital IT Department within the Technology Division.   In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below.

Role Description

Reporting to the QA- Functional test lead, the position holder will execute Software functional testing and ensure solutions delivered to the customers meet the desired user specifications; ensuring all bugs are identified and resolved before product launch leading to zero revenue losses and customer impact. He / she will also be responsible for executing the test strategy; plan, monitor and control the testing activities, with an emphasis on validating solution / product readiness for production.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for end to end system testing and user acceptance testing, end to end reporting & analysis on test progress, testing process and tracking of bugs to resolutions and stakeholder management, ensuring product testing is executed within the planned timelines
• Adopt creativity to achieve higher levels of competency and efficiency through adoption of fit for future technologies.
• Creatively try to break our applications, via hands-on and scripted testing, before our customer(s) encounter the bugs
• Implement software testing automation framework
• Responsible for end to end management of large test teams and ensuring the testers execute within planned timelines and scope for the projects
• Define suitable metrics for measuring test progress and evaluation of the quality of the testing process and products
• Accountable for setting up quality gates and ensuring that a product is comprehensively checked and passed through all the gates before acceptance testing
• Accountability in test data management including building of tools to manage the test resources and build a process around the management of test resources
• Accountable for validation of quality of all releases and fully accountable for product readiness to production
• Undertake programs to increase the quality of delivery and ensure zero defect leakage to production

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in IT related Field
• 3 years + experience in software development or Testing Automation in a busy IT environment
• Strong understanding of the software Testing Life cycle (STLC)
• Excellent software development skills coupled with programming experience in Java, Python, JavaScript etc
• Experience of Test-driven Development approaches such as ATDD and BDD
• Experience in functional/Automation testing and use of test management tools (Micro-Focus ALM/Octane)
• Experience in Unix/Linux Operating System
• Experience in test design techniques (black box and white box)
• Strong risk identification and mitigation planning skills
• Solid understanding of enterprise APIs, Mobile and Web application architectures
• Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies
• Strong knowledge of continuous integration and delivery systems (CI/CD) such as Jenkins /drone/CycleCI
• Experience with at least one test automation tool such as Selenium, Appium, Robot Framework, Pytest
• ISTQB Certification is a plus