Test Lead at PPS

Minimum Requirements    

Formal Qualifications:

• Matric – essential
• 3 Year IT degree – essential
• Practical Software Testing – essential
• ISTQB Foundation – essential
• ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst – essential
• ISTQB Agile tester – advantageous
• ITIL Foundation – advantageous
• SAFe Practitioner – advantageous

Knowledge and Experience:

• Minimum 4 - 6 years in Software Testing – essential
• Experience in a financial industry (Life Insurance) – essential
• Working knowledge of Test management tools, e.g. Selenium, Gitlab, etc – essential
• Working knowledge of Test process improvement – essential
• People management experience essential

Duties and Responsibilities    

Test Strategy & Process

• Management of Test team deliverables
• Review of supporting documentation for accuracy
• Identification of system functions for testing
• Identification and extraction of test requirements
• Risk analysis and identification
• Specification of test data requirements
• Test case design
• Integration test case design
• Quality review of test cases and test documentation
• Confirmation of test environment readiness
• Sequencing and scheduling of test cases
• Execution of test cases
• Mentoring of less experienced testers
• Knowledge transfer to client and team
• Compilation of test plans and models
• Definition, implementation and improvement of the test & defect management processes
• Testing Matrices
• Defect management
• Risk and issue management
• Liaison with development & business analysts and other stakeholders.

Strategic Orientation

• Review of sdocumentation for accuracy
• Identification of systm functions for testing
• Identification and extraction of test requirements
• Test case design and maintenance
• Test scheduling
• Execution of test cases
• Logging of defects and change requests
• Defect Management
• Test Management.