Quality Assurance Lead / Manager at DeARX Services (Pty) Ltd

Urgently seeking the expertise of Senior Quality Assurance Leads / Managers to join our Financial services client on a 12 Month contract basis.

This position involves assisting in optimising testing efficiencies as well as ensuring healthy team effectiveness and dynamics.

Key Requirements:

• Minimum 8-10 years experience in a QA Lead / Management capacity.
• Experience and exposure of tools like Cucumber, Jbehave, Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, Jira, Wireshark, Postman
• Experience on Soap and RESTFUL services
• Service Certifications and use of hyper-converged infrastructure.
• Performance and load testing experience.
• Lean Software Development - knowledge of Agile framework and its core principles to remove excess from projects to provide work with business value.
• API Testing / Front-end / Back-end experience
• Manual / Automation experience

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Peers and industry experts to understand technical advances
• Participate in the sprint planning, and success criteria per story/epic.
• Facilitate the daily stand-up where necessary and manage the issues raised by the Software Quality & Test Engineers and remove any blockers.
• Participate in the retrospective reviews and seek efficiencies which will ensure quicker delivery with high quality to our client(s).
• Communicate the Product risk to the Product Owner, Scrum Master & Chapter Lead and highlight any mitigating factors.
• Drive rigour into Quality Assurance practices
• Facilitate the handover of QA deliverables for all testing phases.
• Review and ensure all QA artefacts are stored centrally.
• Ensure the QA deliverables produced aligned to the test approach.
• Produce a closeout report and monitor product health in production.
• Review and ensure all QA artefacts are stored centrally. Allow for and encourage significant investment in the end-to-end QA design.