Quality Assurance Lead

Minimum Requirements: Matric (Grade 12) BSc IT or BCom IT or similar qualification ISTQB Agile foundations cert (advanced preferred) Test strategy design Test approach design Test plan and management 4 years management experience Adaptability Stakeholder management Mentoring and coaching SQE and other squad members Bootcamp training in Agile and DevOps Test analysis and design Test automation experience Development experience preferred Experience in Agile delivery Exposure to Test Driven Development (TDD) advantageous Experience in Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) Exposure within a continuous delivery model preferred Experience in NFT (Performance, load, stress) Responsibilities: Works across multiple teams to ensure the planning, execution, reporting, and successful completion of QA activities for all new development cycles for various releases.
Contributes to Agile-related user story review meetings and/or work with relevant business stakeholders and developers to understand the new or modified application functionality.
Designs and implements end-to-end test scenarios, as well as debugging and defining corrective actions.
Contributes to performing and documenting risk analysis and record test progress and results.  Performing thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.
Works across multiple teams to review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
Creates detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.
Designs, develops, codes, and executes automation scripts.
Works across multiple teams to identify, record, document thoroughly, and track bugs and develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs.
Develops standards and procedures to determine product quality and release readiness.
Development languages, preference to Java.
Object orientated programming (OOP).
Mobile test automation.
SOAP and RESTFUL services.
Use of testing tools and frameworks (eg Selenium, Appium, RestAssured, Karate, Jira, JMeter).
Service virtualisation and data virtualisation advantageous.
Vulnerability testing advantageous