Test Lead

2 days ago


Cape Town, South Africa Boardroom Appointments Full time

**Key purpose**:
As a Test Lead II, you will be responsible for the test automation of our products and websites. You'll help us to improve the quality of our products and deliver bug-free software by automating functional testing in an agile environment.

**Duties and responsibilities**:

- Collaborate with Project Team and Stakeholders as required to agree the testing strategy to be employed for development projects
- Coordinate all activity and all testers during each testing phase of a project and/or programme
- Determine which tools and utilities work best and how to use them for given situation/project
- Develop, modify, and ensure that software testing plans are executed
- Provide accurate and precise estimates for assigned task duration, along with confidence levels and foreseeable dependencies
- Initiate test planning activities
- Represent the customer in understanding how they use the system and include the most relevant end to end user scenarios in test plans and automation
- Defining test strategy and test plans and review them with stakeholders
- Identify the testing scope required for each release based on the requirements
- Ensure the Test Lab assets are in place or planned for, to meet testing requirements
- Laise with the Test Lab Manager in the event there are new equipment required
- Plan Resource Access to the Lab for required testing
- Ensure optimal test coverage and improve the test coverage where needed
- Identify the testing effort required by calculating the sizing needed for the given. release and plan the required effort for the same
- Identify the tools to be used for test reporting, test management, test automation, etc. and identify when test automation is appropriate and, if it is, plan the effort
- Estimate the testing resources and time required and negotiate with management to acquire the necessary resources
- Publish the test plan after discussions with the test team and have it reviewed and approved by the management/ development team

**Qualifications and experience**:

- Diploma or Degree qualified (IT or related technical)
- Software testing training and registration (e.g. ISTQB, ISEB)
- Experience in systems testing, systems integration testing, end-to-end testing, user acceptance testing and both Performance and Automated testing
- Google Suite / MS Office Suite
- Cloud Testing (Azure/AWS) and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery Experience
- Proven experience in Test Management/Test Lead within cross-functional delivery areas and multiple projects
- JIRA and Agile methodologies


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