Quality Assurance Lead at iOCO

What you’ll do:

• Use the automation framework and pre-defined test tools to inspect, analyse, design, develop and implement re-useable automated test assets to quality assure the solution and its architecture to ensure the overall quality of the solution.
• 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 relationship with Peers, Subject Matter Experts,
• Developers, Product Owner and other Stakeholders
• Work closely with Quality Assurance Leads, Practise 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 artefacts from stakeholders (eg: 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.
• Review that the test automation solution meets the architectural and development standards that are re-usable and scalable.
• Ensure integration into and continuous test automation execution on DevOps pipelines.
• Work with the Enterprise Quality Assurance Practise 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 artefacts are easy obtainable by storing all relevant artefacts in the repository
• Participate in the retrospective reviews and seek efficiencies which will ensure quicker delivery with high quality.
• Encourage Peer reviews of the QA artefacts.
• Mentor the Engineers within the team to improve their technical capabilities.
• Provide input into performance management of team members

Your expertise:

• Level: Lead (10+ years experience)

Tools/ Technologies include:

• Selenium/Appium/Healenium
• RestAssured
• JMeter
• IDE
• Java
• Maven
• Cucumber

Qualifications:

• Matric
• Relevant IT Qualification
• ISTQB