Job Openings Quality Assurance Lead

About the job Quality Assurance Lead

Minimum Requirements:

  • Matric (Grade 12)
  • BSc IT or BCom IT or similar qualification
  • ISTQB Agile foundations cert (advanced preferred)
  • Test strategy design
  • Test approach design
  • Test plan and management
  • 4 years management experience
  • Adaptability
  • Stakeholder management
  • Mentoring and coaching SQE and other squad members
  • Bootcamp training in Agile and DevOps
  • Test analysis and design
  • Test automation experience
  • Development experience preferred
  • Experience in Agile delivery
  • Exposure to Test Driven Development (TDD) advantageous
  • Experience in Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)
  • Exposure within a continuous delivery model preferred
  • Experience in NFT (Performance, load, stress)

Responsibilities:

  • Works across multiple teams to ensure the planning, execution, reporting, and successful completion of QA activities for all new development cycles for various releases.
  • Contributes to Agile-related user story review meetings and/or work with relevant business stakeholders and developers to understand the new or modified application functionality.
  • Designs and implements end-to-end test scenarios, as well as debugging and defining corrective actions.
  • Contributes to performing and documenting risk analysis and record test progress and results. 
  • Performing thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.
  • Works across multiple teams to review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
  • Creates detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.
  • Designs, develops, codes, and executes automation scripts.
  • Works across multiple teams to identify, record, document thoroughly, and track bugs and develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs.
  • Develops standards and procedures to determine product quality and release readiness.
  • Development languages, preference to Java.
  • Object orientated programming (OOP).
  • Mobile test automation.
  • SOAP and RESTFUL services.
  • Use of testing tools and frameworks (eg Selenium, Appium, RestAssured, Karate, Jira, JMeter).
  • Service virtualisation and data virtualisation advantageous.
  • Vulnerability testing advantageous