Takealot.com, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented QA Manager to join our team.
We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won't be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.
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The position reports to the QA Director
Your mission should you choose to accept it:
Lead a team of QA Analysts
Contribute to the Community of Practice for QA in engineering
Drive recruitment for the QA team
Raise development quality by developing processes and best practices for testing in dev teams, in collaboration with the developers and managers
Collaborate with the engineering management team to effectively build and manage a shared roadmap for the automation (automation is owned and managed from the engineering space)
Contribute to the improvement and refinement of the automation strategy
Contribute to the automation coverage for both UI and Service based tests through the QA Analysts
Ensure that the team continues to develop and execute test cases to diagnose issues and bugs that is aligned to the team strategy and best practice for maintainability and reuse
Ensure that the team creates and manages test data in a sustainable and reusable manner
Identify testing deficiencies and subsequently drive resolution and priority through collaboration with the automation engineers, engineers and QA Analysts
Ensure that the team continues to Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs according to the team strategy and best practice
Ensure that the team continues to perform regression testing when bugs are resolved
Ensure that issues from production are fed back into the test base by reviewing the coverage and updating the test cases where required to constantly ensure adequate coverage
Increase code coverage across the team's technology stack through careful test identification on unit, service, functional level
Develop status reports based on test completion/findings and communicate these to team leaders including any impact on the overall project plan
Implement and drive initiatives to increase visibility of QA progress on projects and build relationships with product stakeholders to ensure that QA is informed well in advance of projects coming their way
Mentoring and guiding the test team and developers on test approaches and automation suites
Skills needed:
Strong relationship builder
Is a team player, active listener, mentor and able to communicate well
Shows solid reasoning and decision-making with the ability to work under pressure
Is passionate about technology, systems and quality
Is curious, always learning and keeping up to date with the craft of testing
Self-motivated with strong capability of fast learning
Ability to work efficiently both independently and within the team
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to understand and critique requirements
Strong communication skills
Qualifications and experience:
Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering and a minimum of 5 years of Software QA experience in a software/technology environment is required, 2 years of which should be in a QA management role.
In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelor's Degree or an Advanced Diploma (in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 8 years of Software QA management experience in a software/technology environment, 2 years of which should be in a QA management role.
Experience managing testing throughout the SDLC (development testing, unit testing, API testing, performance testing, system testing etc.)
Experience with Jenkins or other Continuous Integration applications will be an advantage
Understanding of configuration management and version control
Demonstrable strong experience of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
Strong knowledge of SQL and scripting
Experience testing and administering in Linux and other Unix environments
Experience with unit test frameworks
Experience with performance and/or security testing will be an advantage
Experience with selenium, appium
Experience with Robot Framework will be an advantage
Flexibility to learn new technologies and explore new tools
Understanding of configuration management and version control
Experience in installing, upgrading, configuring and verifying (smoke tests) virtualized testing environments (VMs)
Think you've been challenged before? Think again!
Scale: Over 2.5 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.
Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time.
Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, Superbalist.com and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here's your chance.
The Environment:
takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
We are short on ego and high on output.
We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all.
We love what we do and what we are creating.
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