We are pleased to announce the following vacancy 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:
Reporting to the QA- Functional Testing Lead, the position holder will execute Software functional testing and ensure solutions delivered to the customers meet the desired user specifications; ensuring all bugs are identified and resolved before product launch leading to zero revenue losses and customer impact.
Key Responsibilities:
- Accountable for end to end system testing and user acceptance testing, end to end reporting & analysis on test progress, testing process and tracking of bugs to resolutions and stakeholder management, ensuring product testing is executed within the planned timelines
- Adopt creativity to achieve higher levels of competency and efficiency through adoption of fit for future technologies.
- Responsible for end to end management of large test teams and ensuring the testers execute within planned timelines and scope for the projects
- 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 maintaining tools for test management (ALM); ensuring proper use of all test tools
- Define suitable metrics for measuring test progress and evaluation of the quality of the testing process and products
- Accountable for setting up quality gates and ensuring that a product is comprehensively checked and passed through all the gates before acceptance testing
- Accountability in test data management including building of tools to manage the test resources and build a process around the management of test resources
- Accountable for validation of quality of all releases and fully accountable for product readiness to production
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Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Development or related subject
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2 years experience in software testing or development in a busy IT environment
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Strong understanding of the software Testing Life cycle (STLC)
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Experience in managing large test teams
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Ability to effectively manage competing resources and priorities
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Knowledge on test automation and experience with at least one scripting language
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Experience in functional testing and use of test management tools (Micro-Focus ALM)
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Experience in test design techniques (black box and white box)
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Experience with report generation and analysis of testing results
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Strong risk identification and mitigation planning skills
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ISTQB Certification is a plus
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