Agile QA Lead at SUMMIT Africa Recruitment

The Role

The QA Lead will be responsible for the planning and execution of technical test related activitiesfor in-development applications, ensuring that they are effectively tested against agreed acceptance criteria (functional and non-functional). This testing may be relevant before and after production deployment. Ideally this will evolve into systematizing the planning and execution of testing related activities such that more junior testers can be added to the team in future.

• Understand the product that needs testing.
• Identify the needed quality outcomes and the main quality risks.

Create a test plan that mitigates the risks and drives to high quality outcomes for the product within the constraints of the available resources. Collaborate with Product Owner, Product Manager and other team members to influence their decisions if needed to improve quality related outcomes. Ensure clear Acceptance Criteria exist and are agreed on between the team (including yourself) and the client for any planned product development work. Regularly evaluate testing against the changing requirements of the product, and refine testing strategy and tactics as needed. Create components of automated test solutions if necessary (automated scripts, test harnesses, SQL scripts etc). Facilitate that these are reviewed by others. Identify components potentially affected by system changes and perform regression and ad-hoc testing of those components as needed. Develop and refine Software Quality Standards, as well as a measurable, scalable and repeatable Software Quality process. Help guide decisions about how best to deploy the available test execution capacity across different projects. Create and maintain constant communication and healthy working relationships between QA, Development, Design and Product Teams.

Qualifications and Experience

• Non negotiable Necessities
• 4 years experience in technical testing, including manual and automated testing
• Leadership skill and experience
• Strongly suggested
• A technical qualification and previous experience in developing software are strong advantages