Testing Manager at PwC South Africa

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree

Preferred Fields of Study:

• Information Technology, Computer Systems Analysis, Computer Programming, Computer Applications, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems

Minimum Years of Experience:

• 4 year(s) of relevant experience in cloud, endpoint, application, and infrastructure test platform design and implementation.

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

• Demonstrates extensive-level, abilities success with managing the identification and addressing of client needs including: Researching, identifying, building, and implementing standardized testing environments, solutions,and platforms for use across a varied technology ecosystem;
• Developing and managing Azure DevOps build pipelines and automation workflow;
• Possessing automation design and implementation across multiple endpoint and infrastructure technologies;
• Working with testing engineers to review and validate understanding of customer requirements and translate initial scope into technical deliverables;
• Creating architectural documentation and artifacts to support PwC’s testing journey;
• Maintaining required level of knowledge on company-offered solutions including the completion of assigned courses and relevant certification exams when applicable;
• Being able to educate others within the organizations in areas of specialization;
• Evaluating and designing technical 'end to end' solutions;
• Planning and designing with a global mindset and a region and/or territorial view for building;
• Supporting technology and the business to align testing standards;
• Updating and maintaining the key Enterprise Architecture deliverables for testing technology;
• Providing engineering leadership in the resolutions of inter-program and inter-project testing issues;
• Performing ongoing testing research and assessment of new analysis approaches for potential design and use within the Enterprise;
• Developing enterprise architecture for testing services;
• Establishing a stable, reliable secure and high performing testing platform;
• Building, maintaining and controlling testing environments;
• Troubleshooting complex incidents in testing solution environments;
• Establishing proactive monitoring and alerting capabilities exist for all components of the testing platform;
• Establishing system health and capacity is reviewed and enhanced as needed;
• Documenting Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and perform knowledge transfer to others;
• Developing testing standards and industry leading practices for use across PwC firms;
• Supporting the audit of testing standards used and implementing so delivery methods conform to technology and business outcomes;
• Influencing business strategies in alignment with testing capabilities;
• Driving, designing, and implicitly representing various testing artifacts within the enterprise framework that represents cloud components and solutions; and,
• Continuing to expand personal knowledge of the cloud industry, services, and innovations.