Quality Assurance Lead

JOBNUMBER

**iOCO03322**
- CONTRACT TYPE

**Contract**
- CONTRACT TYPE:
**Hybrid**

**The Role**:
We require a **QA Lead** to join our team 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. Use the automation framework and pre-defined test tools to inspect, analyse, design, develop and implement re-useable automated test assets to quality assure the solution and its architecture to ensure the overall quality of the solution. Good working knowledge of Front-End and API automation as well as Performance Testing (NFT).

**Skills and Experience**:
**What you’ll do**:

- Use the automation framework and pre-defined test tools to inspect, analyse, design, develop and implement re-useable automated test assets to quality assure the solution and its architecture to ensure the overall quality of the solution.
- Ensure stable solutions to stakeholders by delivering automated testing solutions and quality practices within agreed timelines and within agreed risk parameters.
- Provide advice to clients on quality practices
- Build and foster deep relationship with Peers, Subject Matter Experts,
- Developers, Product Owner and other Stakeholders
- Work closely with Quality Assurance Leads, Practise Leads, Developers,
- Architects, Product Owner and other Stakeholders to meet the expectations of our clients.
- Participate in the overall PI planning and the squad deliverables including capacity estimation and interdependencies.
- Obtain and review relevant artefacts from stakeholders (eg: technical landscape, architecture design, technology roadmaps)
- Create the Test Strategy, approach or plan and ensure alignment to the squad objectives.
- Contribute to the systematic breakdown of the business needs into manageable feature(s), stories and epics that can be delivered.
- Ensure all committed user stories and acceptance criteria are tested for the specific release ensuring quality is not compromised.
- Participate in the backlog grooming and in the sprint planning.
- Participate in the daily stand-up where necessary, manage the issues raised by the Software Quality & Test Engineers and raise relevant associated risks.
- Encourage the Software Quality & Test Engineers to collaborate across squads to ensure efficient implementation of deliverables and ensure automation governance is adhered to by all.
- Review that the test automation solution meets the architectural and development standards that are re-usable and scalable.
- Ensure integration into and continuous test automation execution on DevOps pipelines.
- Work with the Enterprise Quality Assurance Practise Lead on the metrics and reporting to communicate quality engineering practices.
- Ensure the defect management process is adhered to by the Software Quality & Test Engineers.
- Ensure artefacts are easy obtainable by storing all relevant artefacts in the repository
- Participate in the retrospective reviews and seek efficiencies which will ensure quicker delivery with high quality.
- Encourage Peer reviews of the QA artefacts.
- Mentor the Engineers within the team to improve their technical capabilities.
- Provide input into performance management of team members

**Your expertise**:

- Level: Lead (10+ years experience)
- Tools/ Technologies include:

- Selenium/Appium/Healenium
- RestAssured
- JMeter
- IDE
- Java
- Maven
- Cucumber

**Qualifications**:

- Matric
- Relevant IT Qualification
- ISTQB

**Other**:
**Other information applicable to opportunity**:

- Location: Johannesburg (Hybrid way of work)
- Initial contract position

**Why work for us?**

Want to work for an organization that solves complex real-world problems with innovative software solutions? At iOCO, we believe anything is possible with modern technology, software, and development expertise. We are continuously pushing the boundaries of innovative solutions across multiple industries using an array of technologies.

You will be part of a consultancy, working with some of the most knowledgeable minds in the industry on interesting solutions across different business domains.

Our culture of continuous learning will ensure that you will have all the opportunities, tools, and support to hone and grow your craft.

By joining IOCO you will have an open invitation to developer inspiring forums. A place where you will be able to connect and learn from and with your peers by sharing ideas, experiences, practices, and solutions.