Quality Assurance Lead

Location:	Johannesburg
Remote work:	Some remote work allowed
Job level:	Mid/Senior
Type:	Permanent
Reference:	#QALEAD230724
Company:	RecruitU

Job purpose

To lead the test implementation in accordance with the agreed quality assurance principles and standards in order to manage the product risk and inter-dependencies during the product life cycle. Ensure alignment across business analysis, development, quality assurance, and environment to optimise the testing efficiencies across the product delivery stack. Ensure team effectiveness and healthy team dynamics.

Job responsibilities:

• Build a deep understanding of the business need in order to contribute to the ongoing value proposition.
• Liaise with stakeholders across group technology to build a network that will align to the client's programme.
• Participate in the sprint planning, and success criteria per story/epic.
• Participate in the squad backlog grooming.
• Facilitate the daily stand-up where necessary and manage the issues raised by the software quality and test engineers and remove any blockers.
• Encourage the software quality and test engineers to collaborate across teams to ensure efficient implementation of product and ensure automation governance is adhered to by all.
• Facilitate the handover of QA deliverables for all testing phases.
• Review and ensure all QA artefacts are stored centrally.
• Encourage continuous learning and questioning of the business and technology.
• Allow for and encourage significant investment in the end-to-end QA design.
• Review and prioritise all issues raised by the software quality and test engineers.
• Work with the enterprise quality assurance chapter lead on the metrics and reporting to communicate testing status.
• Ensure the QA deliverables produced align with the test approach.
• Communicate the product risk to the product owner, scrum master and chapter lead and highlight any mitigating factors.
• Ensure the defect management process is adhered to by the software quality and test engineers and where necessary chair the defect triage sessions.
• Participate in the retrospective reviews and seek efficiencies which will ensure quicker delivery with high quality to our clients.
• Produce a closeout report and monitor product health in production for two weeks to ensure any issues are referenced in the report for completeness.
• Elicit business and subject matter expert participation and input where necessary.
• Encourage peer reviews of the QA artefacts.
• Understand and manage own demand based on expected timelines articulated by the line management and project expectations.
• Collaborate with peers and industry experts to understand technical advances and their application within the company's ecosystem.
• Seek ongoing improvements in technical capabilities.
• Mentor the engineers within the team to improve their technical capabilities.
• Responsible for performance management of direct reports (e.g. performance contracts, development plans, poor performance and improvement plans, and reviews).
• Ensure the team dynamics are healthy (coaching and mentoring, assist with decision-making, encourage self-organisation and assist with prioritisation).
• Ensure direct reports and time sheets are created and signed off timeously.
• Responsible for resource capacity plans.
• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values.
• Stay abreast of developments in the field of expertise.

Essential qualifications - NQF level:

• Advanced diplomas/national first degrees

Preferred qualification:

• Agile certification and training in DevOps would be advantageous.

Essential certifications:

• ISTQB foundation or equivalent (ISEB)

Minimum experience level:

• Two or more years in a lead role
• Six to eight years of test automation experience
• Java
• Selenium
• API testing (RestAssured/Karate/SOAPUI)
• Jmeter

Type of exposure:

• Experience in an agile development environment using scrum / SAFe and/or extreme / pair programming technical / professional knowledge
• Programming (OOP)
• Java development with J2EE and/or Springboot knowledge (advanced)
• Automation testing using Selenium
• Use of repository systems i.e.: Azure Repos
• Testing of services using automation tools such as Rest Assured (and SOAPUI).
• BDD and TDD
• Continuous integration (CI) process with Jenkins or Azure Pipelines.
• Agile methodology and working in agile teams
• Use of Maven
• Use of Jira and Confluence
• Exposure to cloud technology
• Experience in building stubs
• Experience in service virtualisation

Behavioural competencies:

• Adaptability
• Decision-making
• Emotional intelligence essentials
• Technical/professional knowledge and skills
• Influencing
• Quality orientation
• Planning and organising
• High-impact communication

Skills:

• Experience in an agile development environment using scrum / SAFe and/or extreme / pair programming technical / professional knowledge
• Programming (OOP)
• Java development with J2EE and/or Springboot knowledge (advanced)
• Automation testing using Selenium
• Use of repository systems i.e.: Azure Repos
• Testing of services using automation tools such as Rest Assured (and SOAPUI).
• BDD and TDD
• Continuous integration (CI) process with Jenkins or Azure Pipelines.
• Agile methodology and working in agile teams
• Use of Maven
• Use of Jira and Confluence
• Exposure to cloud technology
• Experience in building stubs
• Experience in service virtualisation
• Adaptability
• Decision-making
• Emotional intelligence essentials
• Technical/professional knowledge and skills
• Influencing
• Quality orientation
• Planning and organising
• High-impact communication

Posted on 23 Jul 15:26, Closing date 21 Sep