Description
Job Advert Summary:
Reporting to Senior Manager: IT Testing, the Test Lead will be responsible to provide mentoring and guidance on the implementation and execution of test methodology and strategy to the test team and Support the overall organization with carrying out all levels of software testing as part of the full SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) in order to deliver high quality solutions on projects.
Minimum Requirements:
Formal Qualifications
- Matric - essential
- 3 Year IT degree - essential
- Practical Software Testing - essential
- ISTQB Foundation - essential
- ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst - essential
- ISTQB Agile tester - advantageous
- ITIL Foundation - advantageous
- SAFe Practitioner - advantageous
**Knowledge & Experience
- Minimum 4 - 6 years’ in Software Testing - essential
- Experience in a financial industry - essential
- Working knowledge of at Test management tools, e.g. Selenium, Gitlab - essential
- Working knowledge of Test process improvement - essential
- People management experience essential
Duties and Responsibilities:
Key Responsibilities
Test Strategy & Process
- Management of Test team deliverables
- Review of supporting documentation for accuracy
- Identification of system functions for testing
- Identification and extraction of test requirements
- Risk analysis and identification
- Specification of test data requirements
- Test case design
- Integration test case design
- Quality review of test cases and test documentation
- Confirmation of test environment readiness
- Sequencing and scheduling of test cases
- Execution of test cases
- Mentoring of less experienced testers
- Knowledge transfer to client and team
- Compilation of test plans and models
- Definition, implementation and improvement of the test & defect management processes
- Testing Matrices
- Defect management
- Risk and issue management
- Liaison with development & business analysts and other stakeholders.