Quality Assurance Lead | Johannesburg
We are currently recruiting for an Quality Assurance Lead to work on a 12-month contract for a financial institution, based in Johannesburg.
Job Responsibilities:
- 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.
- Mentor the Engineers within the team to improve their technical capabilities.
- Liaise with Stakeholders across Group Technology to build a network that will align to nWoW.
- Facilitate the daily stand-up where necessary and manage the issues raised by the Software Quality & Test Engineers and remove any blockers.
- Communicate the Product risk to the Product Owner, Scrum Master & Chapter Lead and highlight any mitigating factors.
- Facilitate the handover of QA deliverables for all testing phases.
- Work with the Enterprise Quality Assurance Chapter Lead on the metrics and reporting to communicate testing status.
- Maintain knowledge of the system and interface testing principles and processes, including testing, reporting, case management, results management.
Required Experience:
- 5 years of experience in the following:
- Agile Concepts, Development, Estimation, Prioritisation and Planning
- Java Development with J2EE and/or Springboot knowledge
- Testing principles and processes
- Experience and exposure of tools like Cucumber, Jbehave, Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, Jira (Basic to Intermediate)
- Soap and RESTFUL services
- Kanban Development
- Agile XP
Please apply as soon as possible if you feel you meet all the necessary requirements.
