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-month 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 risk parameters.
- Provide advice to clients on quality practices.
- Build and foster deep relationships with Peers, Subject Matter Experts, Developers, Product Owners, and other Stakeholders through honest communication that aligns with company Values.
- Build a deep understanding of the domain to contribute to the ongoing value proposition.
- Work closely with Quality Assurance Leads, Practice Leads, Developers, Architects, Product Owners, and other Stakeholders to meet client expectations.
- Participate in overall PI planning and 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 squad objectives.
- Contribute to the systematic breakdown of business needs into manageable features, stories, and epics.
- Ensure all committed user stories and acceptance criteria are tested for the specific release ensuring quality is not compromised.
- Participate in backlog grooming and sprint planning.
- Participate in daily stand-ups where necessary, manage issues raised by Software Quality & Test Engineers, and raise relevant associated risks.
- Encourage Software Quality & Test Engineers to collaborate across squads to ensure efficient implementation of deliverables and adherence to automation governance.
- Perform pull requests and ensure all feature branches are committed to Master.
- Review that the test automation solution meets architectural and development standards that are reusable and scalable.
- Challenge 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 metrics and reporting to communicate quality engineering practices.
- Ensure the defect management process is adhered to by Software Quality & Test Engineers.
- Ensure artifacts are easily obtainable by storing all relevant artifacts in the repository.
- Participate in retrospective reviews and seek efficiencies for quicker delivery with high quality to clients.
- Encourage Peer reviews of QA artifacts.
- Understand and manage own demand based on expected timelines articulated by 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 their impact on company technologies.
- Mentor 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 team dynamics are healthy (coaching and mentoring, assist with decision making, encourage self-organization, and assist with prioritization).
- Support the achievement of business strategy, objectives, and values.
- Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g., operational processes) that will improve stakeholder businesses by highlighting benefits in support of 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. Most of our positions are remote; however, candidates should reside within traveling distance as circumstances of the opportunity can change.
Package & Remuneration
Monthly
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