Readvertised: Team Lead - Automated Testing at Tracker Connect (Pty) Ltd

Job description

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:

• Responsible for planning, scheduling and prioritising tests and resources while building and effectively supervising a diverse team of testers.
• Driving testing within the organisation and ensuring that it continues to be a valued and necessary part of the application lifecycle.
• Always seeking to continuously improve software quality, testing tools, testing processes and testing environments.
• Ensuring that a suitable and consistent testing methodology is employed across - for manual, automated and user acceptance tests.
• Team Leadership and Mentorship:
• Provide leadership and mentorship to other team members.
• Train new team members on the methodologies, tools and test scripts used by the team.
• Help team members understand existing functionality and new functional requirements and functionality.
• Investigate and share opportunities to improve testing productivity, processes and procedures with team members.
• Test Strategy/approach/plan:
• Furthering the testing best practices already established in line with industry standards.
• Work with the product owner and development team lead to translate specifications into test plans.
• Define and implement test methodologies for use in the technology team.
• Study and adhere to quality assurance (QA) practices of the Technology Department to ensure that new product and software releases meet documentation/signoff requirements as well as stakeholder expectations.
• Requirements Management:
• Analyse requirements for completeness, correctness and clarity, to drive the testing effort.
• Perform quality checks on logged requirements.
• Assist test team with implementing agile boards and sprint planning.
• Defect Management:
• Where required work with the development team to troubleshoot the system to help identify the root cause of bugs.
• Perform companywide analysis on defects and provide management with proposed solutions.
• Drive the reduction of system defects via the continual improvement processes.
• Test Management:
• Conduct per test project reviews to ensure quality of standard with team.
• Identify constraints that may and do reduce work output and plan for the rectification of these constraints. Inform relevant stakeholders of constraints that cannot be rectified independently within a reasonable period of time.
• Identify and rectify any causes of delays/failure to successfully complete testing requirements.
• Ensure that all test requests are planned and completed, in-line with agreed project priorities and against timelines agreed during the planning cycle.
• Reporting:
• Providing test analysis and reporting.
• Stakeholder reporting: reporting test progress, results and key metrics to stakeholders at agreed intervals.
• Monitor system health via defect leakage and motivate for remedial actions.
• Provide base metric to measure cost of testing and project risk.
• User Acceptance Testing:
• Liaise with internal and external development parties for validation testing.
• Ensure end-user sign-off documents are in place.

Minimum requirements

• Matric.
• ISTQB – Foundation testing certification is a must.
• Relevant IT Tertiary Qualification
• Training on Development and Testing IDE’s. E.g. MS SQL Server, Visual Studio / Code, GIT
• Specific training on test automation and test automation techniques is a must.
• 3 – 5 years’ relevant and practical experience with automating software tests.
• 1 – 2 years leadership / supervisory experience
• Proven leadership ability
• Experience in software testing including methodologies (agile, functional and non-functional), test planning, test case development, execution, and quality assessment of test cases.
• Possess a good understanding of Quality Control and Quality Assurance concepts across the SDLC.
• Demonstrates strong analytical and problem-solving skills and strong attention to detail.
• Strong understanding of coding principles and how bespoke systems function.
• Good familiarity with development practices and structures, including Development & Testing tools.
• Will be part of a dynamic Automation team of self-motivated individuals.
• Demonstrates cross-functional expertise and be highly adaptive and flexible with the ability to thrive in a highly complex and ever-changing environment.
• A Technically inclined person will be best suited.
• Ability to lead and work independently, or function in a team as needed.
• Willing to work extended hours.
• Willing to travel.
• Ability to effectively convey information of a highly technical nature to non-technical audiences for example, between Finance and Developers.