Indsafri started with a Vision - To be the best customer-centric & employee-friendly company; to build a one-stop shop in which all IT needs are fulfilled.
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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.
Job Responsibilities
Build a deep understanding of the business need in order to contribute to the ongoing value proposition.
Participate in the sprint planning, and success criteria per story/epic.
Participate in the Squad backlog grooming.
Facilitate the daily stand-up where necessary and manage the issues raised by the Software Quality & Test Engineers and remove any blockers.
Encourage the Software Quality & Test Engineers to collaborate across team to ensure efficient implementation of Product and ensure automation governance is adhered to by all.
Facilitate the handover of QA deliverables for all testing phases.
Review and ensure all QA artefacts are stored centrally.
Encourage continuous learning and questioning of the business and technology.
Allow for and encourage significant investment in the end-to-end QA design.
Review and prioritise all issues raised by the Software Quality & Test Engineers.
Work with the Enterprise Quality Assurance Chapter Lead on the metrics and reporting to communicate testing status.
Seek ongoing improvements in technical capabilities.
Mentor the Engineers within the team to improve their technical capabilities.
Responsible for performance management of direct reports (e.g. performance contracts, development plans, poor performance and improvement plans, and review).
Ensure the team dynamics are healthy (coaching and mentoring, assist with decision making, encourage self-organisation and assist with prioritisation).
Ensure direct reports' time sheets are created and signed off timeously.
Responsible for resource capacity plan(s).
Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values.
Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise.
Technical / Professional Knowledge
Programming (OOP)
Java Development with J2EE and/or Springboot knowledge (Advanced)
Automation testing using Selenium
Use of repository systems ie: Azure Repos
Testing of Services using automation tools such as Rest Assured (and SOAPUI).
BDD and TDD
Continuous Integration (CI) process with Jenkins or Azure Pipelines.
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