Test Automation Lead

3 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Expleo Group Full time

Overview:
Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services, and management consulting for digital transformation. We are a talent incubator. At Expleo, your career will flourish, enabling you to tackle complex technical challenges, expand your skill set, and collaborate with inspiring, multidisciplinary teams. Whether you're working on autonomous vehicles, green planes, the factories of tomorrow, or cutting-edge banking technology, you will have the opportunity to grow into a bolder version of yourself. Let’s change the game together.

We are looking for a** **Test Automation Lead** to join our team in **Johannesburg (Hybrid).**

**Job Overview**:
As the Test Automation Lead, your role is to guide Quality Engineering within squads, adhering to established Test Engineering and Quality standards. You will ensure alignment among stakeholders to enhance testing efficiencies throughout the product delivery stack while fostering team effectiveness and promoting healthy team dynamics.

**Responsibilities**:

- Collaborate with stakeholders across Group Technology to build a cohesive network.
- Provide stakeholders with automated testing solutions and quality practices that adhere to agreed timelines and risk parameters.
- Offer guidance and consultation on quality practices.
- Foster strong working relationships with peers, Subject Matter Experts, developers, product owners, and other stakeholders through transparent communication aligned with core values, contributing to ongoing value delivery.
- Work closely with QA Leads, developers, architects, product owners, and other key stakeholders to meet client expectations.
- Participate in PI planning and squad deliverables, identifying capacity constraints and interdependencies.
- Review and approve artefacts from stakeholders (e.g., technical landscape, architecture design, and technology roadmaps).
- Create and maintain alignment across teams to meet squad objectives effectively.
- Break down business needs into deliverable stories and epics, ensuring that acceptance criteria are clearly defined for selective prioritisation.
- Participate in backlog grooming and sprint planning to drive optimal testing coverage.
- Address issues raised by the Software Quality & Test Engineers during daily stand-ups, raising associated risks as necessary.
- Collaborate with Software Quality & Test Engineers to ensure sufficient alignment of deliverables, adherence to automation governance, and compliance with standards.
- Ensure automation solutions follow scalable, reusable development standards.
- Facilitate testing automation execution within DevOps pipelines.
- Work with Enterprise QA to align on methodologies and reporting for quality engineering practices.
- Guarantee the defect management process adheres to established frameworks and ensures full traceability.
- Ensure artefacts are available in the repository to support testing.
- Participate in retrospective reviews to drive improvement, ensuring quicker delivery and enhanced quality for clients.
- Mentor peers on QA artefacts and coach engineers on improving their technical capabilities.
- Provide input on documentation for current and future Quality Engineering architecture.
- Manage team performance, provide feedback, and assist with coaching and mentoring to promote self-organisation and task prioritisation.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement by encouraging the exploration of new technological trends.
- Support the development of enhanced processes to improve stakeholder efficiency and operational outcomes.
- Identify opportunities to enhance business processes, models, and systems through agile methodologies.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
- ISEB / ISTQB Certification
- Additional course or certification in Quality Engineering

**Experience**:

- 7 - 10 years experience in a QA Lead role or similar position.
- Strong knowledge of front-end and API automation as well as performance testing.
- Proficiency with automation tools such as Java with Selenium, Appium, Healenium, RestAssured, and JMeter.
- Excellent understanding of test engineering and quality practices.
- Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication and team leadership abilities.
- Familiarity with agile methodologies and DevOps practices.

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