Senior Quality Engineer _ Core - Johannesburg at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

• The Senior Quality Engineer is responsible for leading a functional testing team, implementing and embedding the OM test automation framework and building the testing competency within the organization.

KEY RESULTS AREAS

• Managing testing, including achievement of milestones and deliverables.
• Providing quality control and improvement of processes and outputs.
• Undertaking operational and technical aspects of processing information, data evaluation and analysis.
• Managing an effective communication with Project Mangers, Programme Owners and Test Managers.
• Monitoring progress and provide regular project reports to IT Manager and Senior IT Manager.
• Identifying any tools needed in order to meet manual and automation testing deliverables.
• Identifying and reporting impending risks that may compromise achievement of deliverables and initiates steps to mitigate risk.
• Building and maintaining relationships with relevant internal/external stakeholders Verifying and understanding test requirements and where applicable, liaise, communicates and provides assistance.
• Leading Functional testing team, including coaching and mentoring.
• Conducting daily and weekly team sessions to consolidate the team progress reports and defects management.
• Contributing knowledge and expertise during test reviews, test design and test analysis to my team.
• Working closely with the Vendors on multiple projects.
• Responsible for Test data creating, testing environment and test scripts verification and validation.
• Integrating HP Quality Centre and HP UFT for our automation testing and versioning control.
• Implementing OM Test Automation Framework Responsible for OM Test Automation Framework ensuring all projects adhere to OM Automation standards and tools.
• Leading the testing competency and Governance across South African Transformation Programme (SAT and BAU) Building test scripts that have reusable functions, shared object repository, robustness and are easy to maintain.
• Managing and scheduling all testing phases of the projects, from ST, SIT and UA

ROLE REQUIREMENT ​

• Matric
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or a technologically related field
• Understanding the banking industry and bank operation cycle
• App-testing experience, knowledge, and comprehension
• Knowledge of credit decisioning processes and systems
• Experience in API and front-end testing as well as test automation frameworks.
• API automation-Karate Framework *(advantage)
• Dev Ops experience-CI/CD-tooling
• Experience with Atlassian tools-Jira, GITHUB etc.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Good attitude and strong leadership.
• The ability to excel within a team environment and independently.
• Understand API designs and architecture.
• Exposure to SAS platform
• Exposure of tools like Cucumber, Appium, Jira: Basic to intermediate.
• UI automation experience/knowledge would be advantage.
• Knowledge of AWS services would be beneficial.
• Exposure to TransUnion would be beneficial.