The Senior Quality Engineer is responsible for leading a functional testing team, implementing and embedding the OM test automation framework and building the testing competency within the organization.
KEY RESULTS AREAS
Managing testing, including achievement of milestones and deliverables.
Providing quality control and improvement of processes and outputs.
Undertaking operational and technical aspects of processing information, data evaluation and analysis.
Managing an effective communication with Project Mangers, Programme Owners and Test Managers.
Monitoring progress and provide regular project reports to IT Manager and Senior IT Manager.
Identifying any tools needed in order to meet manual and automation testing deliverables.
Identifying and reporting impending risks that may compromise achievement of deliverables and initiates steps to mitigate risk.
Building and maintaining relationships with relevant internal/external stakeholders Verifying and understanding test requirements and where applicable, liaise, communicates and provides assistance.
Leading Functional testing team, including coaching and mentoring.
Conducting daily and weekly team sessions to consolidate the team progress reports and defects management.
Contributing knowledge and expertise during test reviews, test design and test analysis to my team.
Working closely with the Vendors on multiple projects.
Responsible for Test data creating, testing environment and test scripts verification and validation.
Integrating HP Quality Centre and HP UFT for our automation testing and versioning control.
Implementing OM Test Automation Framework Responsible for OM Test Automation Framework ensuring all projects adhere to OM Automation standards and tools.
Leading the testing competency and Governance across South African Transformation Programme (SAT and BAU) Building test scripts that have reusable functions, shared object repository, robustness and are easy to maintain.
Managing and scheduling all testing phases of the projects, from ST, SIT and UA
ROLE REQUIREMENT
Matric
Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or a technologically related field
Understanding the banking industry and bank operation cycle
App-testing experience, knowledge, and comprehension
Knowledge of credit decisioning processes and systems
Experience in API and front-end testing as well as test automation frameworks.
API automation-Karate Framework *(advantage)
Dev Ops experience-CI/CD-tooling
Experience with Atlassian tools-Jira, GITHUB etc.
Strong organizational skills.
Good attitude and strong leadership.
The ability to excel within a team environment and independently.
Understand API designs and architecture.
Exposure to SAS platform
Exposure of tools like Cucumber, Appium, Jira: Basic to intermediate.
UI automation experience/knowledge would be advantage.