Junior Test Manager at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

Guide, manage, and maintain testing activities across VRSA Systems landscape .To manage the day-to-day testing activities and deliverables by applying test strategy, test plans and managing resources for Release Quality and timeous delivery.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Provide effort estimate to key stakeholders
• Defect management and reporting
• Management and delivery from a testing perspective
• Cross team sharing processes and tools
• Balancing resource allocations across teams
• Recruitment and hiring
• In depth product knowledge
• Contribute to and execute test strategy
• Define, Own and execute Test Plan
• Define, own and execute Testing Process
• Review Analysis of requirements, regression tests, root causes and scope for Automation
• Identify gaps in requirements & provide guidance
• Ensure comprehensive test scenarios and accompanying data permutations to facilitate optimal test coverage
• Effectively manage the upstream and downstream pipeline for the testing effort
• Monitor test case execution
• Identify potential risks
• Ensure that all Test processes are completed before go live
• Ensure confluence page check list is updated correctly
• Identify improvements in process, people, and technology
• Mentor juniors team members and provide required support
• Communicate clearly, constructively, and effectively
• Build relationships with other members of the team and the business
• Transfer knowledge and actively participating in building a testing knowledge base
• Attend squad meetings together with the leads to offer support and guidance
• Coaching of team members for performance, and coaching on management, leadership and career development
• Participating in MANCO, planning/strategy sessions, reporting
• Conducting forecasts, sizing and estimates on delivery initiatives and plans
• Managing of vendors that supply specialized services
• Performance management of own team (objective setting, feedback, appraisals, incentives and bonuses, addressing poor performance).
• Manage Test Cost Centre and associated budgets

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Behavioural Competencies:
• Values Driven
• Optimistic
• Learns on the Fly
• Resilient
• Instils Trust
• People Savvy
• Drives Results
• Problem Solver

Additional attributes:

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Attention to detail
• Accurate
• Ability to grasp concepts quickly
• Excellent written and verbal business communication skills
• An ability to prioritise tasks and work under pressure
• Proactive
• Must be willing to work overtime when required (including weekends where necessary)
• An openness to work with others and build on team input.
• Must have pride in their work and a desire to deliver perfection at all times. Quality is non-negotiable
• Able to establish a collaborative relationship with the systems area
• The individual must have a strong desire for self-learning
• Good work ethic

Education and Experience

Education:

• Matric
• Agile Tester Extension (Advantageous)
• IT related national diploma or tertiary degree
• Testing related certification -ISTQB

Experience:

• 8+ years of experience in the Systems Testing industry
• 3+ years of experience as a Test Lead
• 1+ year of test management experience (Advantageous)

Knowledge:

• Project management
• Experience in Agile testing methodologies
• Experience in JIRA and Quality Centre
• Defect Management Tools (HP Quality Center, Atlassian JIRA, Bugzilla, IBM Rational ClearQuest, etc.)
• Testing Web based applications
• Testing Message based systems
• Testing Desktop applications
• Testing Back-end
• Testing Mobile applications
• SQL
• Scripting in VBScript, Groovy, Python, or JavaScript will be advantageous
• Selenium (will be advantageous)