Quality Assurance Lead

4 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Recru-it Full time
Job Purpose:
To Lead the Test Implementation in accordance with the agreed Quality Assurance principles and standards in order to manage the Product risk and inter-dependencies during the Product Life-Cycle. Ensure alignment across Business Analysis, Development, Quality Assurance and Environment to optimise the testing efficiencies across the Product delivery stack. Ensure team effectiveness and healthy team dynamics.

Job Responsibilities:
  • Build a deep understanding of the business need in order to contribute to the ongoing value proposition.
  • Liaise with Stakeholders across Group Technology to build a network that will align to nWoW.
  • Participate in the sprint planning, and success criteria per story/epic.
  • Participate in the Squad backlog grooming.
  • Facilitate the daily stand-up where necessary and manage the issues raised by the Software Quality & Test Engineers and remove any blockers.
  • Encourage the Software Quality & Test Engineers to collaborate across team to ensure efficient implementation of Product and ensure automation governance is adhered to by all.
  • Facilitate the handover of QA deliverables for all testing phases.
  • Review and ensure all QA artefacts are stored centrally.
  • Encourage continuous learning and questioning of the business and technology.
  • Allow for and encourage significant investment in the end-to-end QA design.
  • Review and prioritise all issues raised by the Software Quality & Test Engineers.
  • Work with the Enterprise Quality Assurance Chapter Lead on the metrics and reporting to communicate testing status.
  • Ensure the QA deliverables produced aligned to the test approach.
  • Encourage the Software Quality & Test Engineers to collaborate across team to ensure efficient implementation of Product and ensure automation governance is adhered to by all.
  • Facilitate the handover of QA deliverables for all testing phases.
  • Review and ensure all QA artefacts are stored centrally.
  • Encourage continuous learning and questioning of the business and technology.
  • Allow for and encourage significant investment in the end-to-end QA design.
  • Review and prioritise all issues raised by the Software Quality & Test Engineers.
  • Work with the Enterprise Quality Assurance Chapter Lead on the metrics and reporting to communicate testing status.
  • Ensure the QA deliverables produced aligned to the test approach.
  • Communicate the Product risk to the Product Owner, Scrum Master & Chapter Lead and highlight any mitigating factors.
  • Ensure the defect management process is adhered to by the Software Quality & Test Engineers and where necessary chair the defect triage sessions.
  • Participate in the retrospective reviews and seek efficiencies which will ensure quicker delivery with high quality to the companys client(s).
  • Produce a closeout report and monitor product health in production for 2 weeks to ensure any issues are referenced in the report for completeness.
  • Elicit business and Subject Matter Expert participation and input where necessary.
  • Encourage Peer reviews of the QA artefacts.
  • Understand and manage own demand based on expected timelines articulated by the line-management and project expectations.
  • Collaborate with Peers and industry experts to understand technical advances and its application within the companys eco-system.
  • Seek ongoing improvements in technical capabilities.
  • Mentor the Engineers within the team to improve their technical capabilities.
  • Responsible for performance management of direct reports (e.g. performance contracts, development plans, poor performance and improvement plans, and review).
  • Ensure the team dynamics are healthy (coaching and mentoring, assist with decision making, encourage self-organisation and assist with prioritisation).
  • Ensure direct reports' time sheets are created and signed off timeously.
  • Responsible for resource capacity plan(s).
  • Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values.
  • Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level:
  • Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification:
  • Agile certification and training in DevOps would be advantageous.

Essential Certifications:
  • ISTQB foundation or equivalent (ISEB)

Minimum Experience Level:
  • 2 or more years in a Lead role
  • 6-8 years test automation experience
    • Java
    • Selenium
    • API testing (RestAssured/Karate/SOAPUI)
    • Jmeter

Type of Exposure:
  • Experience in an Agile development environment using Scrum / SAFe and/or Extreme / Pair Programming

Technical / Professional Knowledge:
  • Programming (OOP)
  • Java Development with J2EE and/or Springboot knowledge (Advanced)
  • Automation testing using Selenium
  • Use of repository systems i.e.: Azure Repos
  • Testing of Services using automation tools such as Rest Assured (and SOAPUI).
  • BDD and TDD
  • Continuous Integration (CI) process with Jenkins or Azure Pipelines.
  • Agile methodology and working in agile teams
  • Use of Maven
  • Use of Jira and Confluence
  • Exposure to Cloud technology.
  • Experience in building stubs.
  • Experience in Service Virtualisation

Behavioral Competencies:
  • Adaptability
  • Decision Making
  • Emotional Intelligence Essentials
  • Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
  • Influencing
  • Quality Orientation
  • Planning and Organizing
  • High-Impact Communication


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