PURPOSE:
- Lead the overall quality management for software projects, and collaborate with business analysts, software developers, designers to ensure the highest quality software products deliver to customers
OBJECTIVES:
- Help define and set team based KPI's with management and manage these KPI's within the team to ensure they are being delivered against.
- Manage and develop the test team within the B2BE business and from an ongoing perspective
- Promoting and driving quality through performance improvement initiatives within the team and the business;
- Assist in the development of strategy in the QA environment in line with business direction and requirements
- Defining QA procedures in conjunction with Development and Consulting teams
- Identifying relevant quality-related training needs to ensure the QA team follows best practice
- Review business and functional requirements in order to develop (automated) test strategies, plans, cases and execution reports to support the QA testing process;
- Perform all aspects of verification and testing, including functional, regression and system testing
- Produce test reports at the end of each cycle detailing the tests performed, the results and the areas that can be improved;
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead a group of manual/automation QA engineers, working closely with Development and Product team;
- Understand fully requirements and the system to balance manual and automated testing activities;
- Review requirements, specifications and technical documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback;
- Estimate test efforts accurately and coordinate with team members for work activities;
- Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases;
- Design and develop automated testing frameworks for UI and API (functional, performance);
- Record test results and verify software bug fixes to accept automation criteria;
- Prepare software defect tracking and report entire project release status to stakeholders;
- Drive QA process and standards changes to benefit high-performing teams;
- Recruit, train and coach QA engineers and ensure they have a great onboarding experience.
**REQUIREMENTS**:
- At least 2 - 5 years of working experience in Leading QA Team or related field
- Strong knowledge of multiple automated test tools and project/system development lifecycles;
- A good eye for detail, quality and analytical skill levels;
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to think outside the square;
- Ability to coordinate effectively between developers and business users;
- Ability to understand, communicate, and analyse requirements;
- Ability to identify gaps in requirements;
- Familiar with entity relationship diagrams and the SQL queries;
- Good English communication skills;
