Technical Team Leader at FNB South Africa

Job Description

• To provide expert advice and support in practice formulation and associated best practice improvements 
• Responsible for leading and developing a team of technical resources that provide operational project and technical support

Hello future Technical Team Lead (Automation),

Responsibilities:

• Automation Leadership:
• Provide end-to-end, integrated technical solutions using a stack of technologies, including mobile (Android/iOS) and web (client-side and server-side).
• Follow CQA defined Automation standards and enforce this on support areas
• Collaborate with support areas (QA Manager, Test Manager and TT/SDIT) to meet project requirements, adhere to guidelines, and produce progress reports to QA Manager and other stakeholders in respective support areas.
• Work closely with support area stakeholders (Development, Infra/DevOps and the Architect Team)
• Test Automation:
• Support Testing team by removing any technical blockers to Automation related issues.
• Manage Technical Deliverables for Testing in Support Areas.
• Manage the creation and maintenance of automation suites using available Interaction Points from CQA.
• Conduct sprint Forums with support areas to pick up issues quicker in the sprints.
• Manage/Promote the usage of CI pipelines for all Automation scripts
• Help facilitate the usage of GTS TESTAUTO through the following
• Scalability to help testing efforts.
• Reusability to promote reusable components and modules.
• Efficiency to streamline test cycles by automating repetitive task from all available platforms
• Collaborate with QA/Test Manager on strategies and GAPs identified for projects in respective portfolios.
• Performance Testing Support.
• Bitbucket code reviews.
• Automation Portfolio Management:
• Manage and own automation portfolio solutions from creation to enablement.
• Lead a team of Technical Testers and Software Developers focused on specific solution areas.
• Process Improvement:
• Analyse existing operations and schedule training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and developments.
• Identify GAPs not covered by CQA Framework to later implement/develop from CQA to enable consumers.
• CQA Testing Framework Development and Enhancement:
• Promote cost effective solutions to development
• Accelerated testing to streamline effectiveness of test Automation
• Increased coverage beyond manual testing for respective areas.
• Development for Central QA initiatives
• Split between portfolio work and CQA initiatives
• Team Motivation and Transparency:
• Motivate staff and create an environment where they can ask questions and voice concerns.
• Be transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.
• Create an environment that allows SDIT/TT to bring up initiatives based on trends.

Skills:

• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong leadership and organizational abilities.
• Bridge Technical gap between Technical Team and Testing team
• Willingness to build professional relationships with stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Business knowledge domain information
• Effective problem solving skills

Desired Experience:

The ideal candidate should have experience in the following areas:

• JAVA
• Springboot
• AWS
• Database Management Systems
• API, Web Testing
• Legacy Application testing
• Monitoring Tools (Plunk, Grafana)
• CI/CD Pipelines (Jenkins/Bamboo)
• Micro Focus ALM Octane usage
• Git and Bitbucket knowledge
• Data Driven Framework knowledge
• Knowledge of OCEP Services
• Data Preparation and understanding
• Agile Methodology