The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) was established by an Act of Parliament, Chapter 469 of the laws of Kenya , which became effective on 1st July 1995 . The Authority is charged with the responsibility of collecting revenue on behalf of the Government of Kenya. A Board of Directors, consisting of both public and private sector experts, makes policy decisions to be implemented by KRA Management. The Chairman of the Board is appointed by the President of the Republic of Kenya . The Chief Executive of the Authority is the Commissioner General who is appointed by the Minister for Finance. PURPOSE OF KRA Assessment , Collection, Administration and Enforcement of laws relating to revenue.
Job Summary:
Responsible for conducting performance testing, User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing and other required test and recommend for production deployment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct user acceptance testing with all relevant stakeholders to evaluate that delivered solutions are fit for use and purpose
- Conducts load, stress and performance testing for identified test exercises.
- Carry out vulnerability assessments on network, databases, business systems and services using various tools and personal knowledge
- Conducts regression tests to ascertain that identified issues or bugs have been resolved and new defects are not introduced
- Conducts smoke tests on environments prior to test exercise to validate readiness for user acceptance testing,
- Ensure compliance with the approved policy, best practice, security requirements and set minimum baseline standards
- Develop test cases that conforms to established software testing standards indicating priority areas
- Document defects according to testing standards.
- Generate test data fit for purpose.
- Documents results of completed testing assignments
- Ensure conformity to ISO (9001/2015 and 27001/2013) and data security requirements.
Academic and Professional Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Required
- Should have a combination of the following:
- Good command of SQL language
- Good command of unix/linux/windows
- Good command of Java, java scripts, VB scripts, python
Relevant Work Experience Required
Work experience of at least one (1) year in related IT field.
Conversant with a good combination of JBOSS, Tomcat, Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL , MySQL
Key Competencies:
- Organisational skills
- Computer proficiency
- Analytical skills
- Communication skills
- Innovative
- Leadership Skills
- Problem solving skills
- Results oriented
- Able to work towards attainment of targets within agreed timelines.
- Team player.
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