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  • Posted: Jan 18, 2021
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    Trimble is transforming the way the world works by delivering products and services that connect the physical and digital worlds. Core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity and data analytics enable customers to improve productivity, quality, safety and sustainability. From purpose built products to enterprise lifecycle solutions, Trimble softw...
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    Head of Software Quality

    Trimble’s Land Administration solutions automate and integrate land registries, cadastral mapping, and the permitting and licensing of land for surveyors, governments and businesses worldwide. Through the integration of a broad portfolio of technologies with workflow management tools, and consulting services, Trimble provides a fully configurable, scalable solutions to help drive the efficient administration of land and its associated transactions, rights, and agreements.

    Trimble Land Administration R&D Team

    • The Trimble Land Administration R&D team in Cape Town is looking for an experienced team player to join our organisation as our Head of Software Quality.

    Role Description
    As the Head of Software Quality for the R&D team, you will:

    • Take overall responsibility for quality standards, as agreed to with Head of R&D and Head of Product Engineering
    • Manage a transparent regression test programme of the Landfolio product suite, covering the following areas: functional regression testing, performance/load testing and security/penetration testing
    • Provide matrix management of QA testers within scrum teams to: allocate regression work packages, provide guidance and training in software quality standards
    • Lead an initiative to extend automated testing on the Landfolio product suite, linked to the continuous integration pipeline to: define the scope of work, perform automated test scripting/coding , support and train testers to perform automated test scripting/coding , define stories for developers to update products to enable efficient testing
    • Work with the Delivery and Content Manager to: prioritise the fixing of bugs identified during testing, modify regression scripts to prevent recurrence of bugs in problem areas
    • Line management for QA staff outside of scrum teams
    • Report to Head of R&D

    Skills

    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
    • A passion for setting and maintaining standards, and instilling a quality-first mindset in others
    • An independent mindset, yet able to work collaboratively
    • Ability to proactively identify problematic behaviour that impacts on quality standards, and work with others to change this
    • Understanding of RESTful web APIs and web application architecture
    • Expert-level knowledge of a test automation framework such as Selenium web drivers, along with Atata and C# or an equivalent scripting environment

    Qualifications And Experience

    • Tertiary education in a relevant technical field, e.g. B.Tech or BSc
    • 10 years of combined experience working on large scale Enterprise IT projects as a Test Engineer, QA analyst and Testing Manager
    • Proven understanding of testing concepts through the software development lifecycle (unit, performance, regression) and capability to lead a team to write effective test cases and test plans
    • Proven ability to create a comprehensive test strategy and integrated testing plan for functional testing and load / performance testing
    • Prior experience managing a small team

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Trimble on trimble.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com to apply

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