QA Lead

Psybergate (Pty) Ltd • Other • Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa • $200 - $300 / year • 3h ago

Reference: PR000452-RN-3

Psybergate is an IT company that builds bespoke software solutions and provides highly skilled resources to its clients.
We are looking for a Quality Assurance Lead (QA Lead) to join our financial services client based in Sandton for a 12-months contract role.

Duties & Responsibilities

What you will be doing:

Liaise with Stakeholders across Group Technology to build a network that will align to the company.
Ensure stable solutions to stakeholders by delivering automated testing solutions and quality practices within agreed timelines and within agreed risk parameters.
Provide advice to clients on quality practices.
Build and foster deep relationships with Peers, Subject Matter Experts, Developers, Product Owner, and other Stakeholders through honest communication which aligns to the company Values.
Build a deep understanding of the domain in order to contribute to the ongoing value proposition.
Work closely with Quality Assurance Leads, Practice Leads, Developers, Architects, Product Owner, and other Stakeholders to meet the expectations of our clients.
Participate in the overall PI planning and the squad deliverables including capacity estimation and interdependencies.
Obtain and review relevant artifacts from stakeholders (e.g., technical landscape, architecture design, technology roadmaps).
Create the Test Strategy, approach, or plan and ensure alignment to the squad objectives.
Contribute to the systematic breakdown of the business needs into manageable feature(s), stories, and epics that can be delivered.
Ensure all committed user stories and acceptance criteria are tested for the specific release ensuring quality is not compromised.
Participate in the backlog grooming and in the sprint planning.
Participate in the daily stand-up where necessary, manage the issues raised by the Software Quality & Test Engineers and raise relevant associated risks.
Encourage the Software Quality & Test Engineers to collaborate across squads to ensure efficient implementation of deliverables and ensure automation governance is adhered to by all.
Perform pull requests and ensure all feature branches are committed to Master.
Review that the test automation solution meets the architectural and development standards that are reusable and scalable.
Challenge the business and technology solutions in alignment with client value proposition.
Ensure integration into and continuous test automation execution on DevOps pipelines.
Work with the Enterprise Quality Assurance Practice Lead on the metrics and reporting to communicate quality engineering practices.
Ensure the defect management process is adhered to by the Software Quality & Test Engineers.
Ensure artifacts are easily obtainable by storing all relevant artifacts in the repository.
Participate in the retrospective reviews and seek efficiencies which will ensure quicker delivery with high quality to our clients.
Encourage Peer reviews of the QA artifacts.
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 ecosystem.
Seek ongoing improvements in technical capabilities.
Ensure alignment of solutions with emerging technologies and impact on company technologies.
Mentor the Engineers within the team to improve their technical capabilities.
Provide input into the documentation of standards & quality practices for Quality engineering for the organization's current and future technological architecture.
Provide input into performance management of team members (e.g., performance contracts, development plans, poor performance and improvement plans, and review).
Ensure the team dynamics are healthy (coaching and mentoring, assist with decision making, encourage self-organization and assist with prioritization).
Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives, and values.
Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g., operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations.
Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models, and systems through agile thinking.

What we are looking for:

Completed IT / BSc degree or other related fields.
7 – 10 years experience as QA Lead or Test Analyst.
Good working knowledge of Front End and API automation as well as Performance Testing (NFT).
Tools include Selenium/Appium/Healenium, RestAssured, and JMeter.

Please note that if you do not hear from us within 3 weeks, consider your application unsuccessful.
Please note that most of our positions are remote; however, candidates should be residing within traveling distance as circumstances of the opportunity can change.