Test Automation Lead

2 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Expleo Full time

Responsibilities

Lead the test implementation process according to quality assurance principles and standards. Ensure alignment across business analysis, development, quality assurance, and environment teams. Optimize testing efficiencies across the product delivery stack. Foster a healthy and effective team dynamic. Use automation frameworks and pre-defined test tools to inspect, analyze, design, develop, and implement reusable automated test assets. Ensure overall solution quality by leveraging tools like Selenium, Appium, Healenium, RestAssured, and JMeter. Lead quality engineering within squads in accordance with agreed test engineering and quality practices. Build and maintain a network of stakeholders across Group Technology to ensure stable solutions and quality practices. Provide advice to clients on quality practices. Build strong relationships with peers, subject matter experts, developers, product owners, and other stakeholders. Deeply understand the domain to contribute to the ongoing value proposition. Participate in PI planning, squad deliverables, capacity estimation, and managing interdependencies. Obtain and review relevant artifacts from stakeholders. Create and align the test strategy, approach, or plan with squad objectives. Contribute to the systematic breakdown of business needs into manageable features, stories, and epics. Ensure all committed user stories and acceptance criteria are tested for specific releases. Participate in backlog grooming, sprint planning, and daily stand-ups as needed. Manage issues raised by software quality and test engineers and associated risks. Encourage collaboration across squads to ensure efficient deliverables implementation. Perform pull requests and ensure feature branches are committed to master. Review test automation solutions to ensure they meet architectural and development standards. Challenge business and technology solutions to align with client value propositions. Integrate continuous test automation execution on DevOps pipelines. Work with the Enterprise Quality Assurance Practice Lead on metrics and reporting. Adhere to the defect management process. Ensure artifacts are easily obtainable by storing them in the repository. Participate in retrospective reviews and seek efficiencies for quicker, high-quality delivery. Encourage peer reviews of QA artifacts. Manage personal demand based on project expectations and timelines. Collaborate with peers and industry experts to stay updated on technical advances. Seek ongoing improvements in technical capabilities. Align solutions with emerging technologies and their impact on the client's technologies. Mentor team engineers to improve their technical capabilities. Provide input into documentation of standards and quality practices for quality engineering. Provide input into performance management of team members. Ensure healthy team dynamics through coaching, mentoring, decision-making assistance, and prioritization support. Support the achievement of business strategy, objectives, and values. Obtain buy-in for developing new or enhanced processes that improve stakeholder business functions. Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models, and systems through agile thinking.

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

Proven 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.

Benefits

We are guided by shared values in all things we do: Courage, Excellence, Collaboration, Respect and Accountability.

Courage – We are bold thinkers and doers, always ready to take on new challenges. We think of ourselves as entrepreneurs, matching creativity with vigilance. Excellence – We are united by a shared ambition: change the game, together. Continuous performance is both an objective and a mindset. Collaboration –Teamwork and emotional intelligence are what makes us stand out in a crowd. We stand shoulder to shoulder, with our clients and our peers, through good times and setbacks. Respect – We are a hive of different profiles, and we place a high value on openness and transparency. We show respect, always. Accountability – We are reliable. We celebrate our successes, we take responsibility and learn from our failures. This is why we protect our “right to fail” as an opportunity to bounce back and progress.

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