Safaricom is a leading communications company in Kenya with the widest and strongest coverage. The home of the famous Mobile Money service- M-PESA
We are pleased to announce the following Position in the Digital IT Department within the Technology Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below.
Brief Description
Reporting to the QA- Test Lead, the position holder will be responsible for implementing governance around quality assurance processes, set up quality gates and assessing the maturity of QA organization. He /she will also enforce adherence to QA processes with constant assessment and reporting.
He / she will also be accountable for implementation of test environment management strategy and ensure availability of test environments. He / she is also accountable for test resources management and ensuring that these are available within stipulated timelines and SLAs
Role purpose:
- Implement and lead quality assurance center of excellence
- Responsible for defining testing schedules, policies and enforce adherence
- Adopt creativity to achieve higher levels of competency and efficiency through adoption of fit for future technologies.
- Accountable for implementation and management of fully functional test environments for all IT systems ensuring stability of all test environments including subsequent upgrades and modernizations on these environments
- Accountable for administration and maintenance of test management tools (e.g ALM); ensuring proper use of all test tools
- Define suitable metrics for measuring the quality of executing QA processes and validation of quality of all releases and reporting
- Accountable for setting up quality gates and ensuring that all products & solutions are comprehensively checked and passed through all the gates before go-live
- Accountability for test resources management including building of tools to manage the test resources and build a process around the management of test resources
- Test data management automation and ensure test data availability within stipulated timelines
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Development or related subject
- 3 years + experience in quality assurance in a busy IT environment
- At least 2 years in system administration or environment provisioning and monitoring
- Experience in any programming language e.g. java, python, groovy etc.
- Strong understanding of maturity models for quality assurance
- Experience with analysis and report generation and presentation
- Experience with test data management procedures is a plus
- ISTQB Certification is a plus
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