Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Tenure: Contract
Reporting to: Senior Manager, Quality Assurance Engineering & Automation
Function / Division: Information Technology
Location: Nairobi
PROFILE INTRODUCTION
Our client one of the top banks in Kenya that offers a range of finance products seeks to bring on board Software Quality Assurance Engineer.
The role holders will be responsible for implementing automated test strategies and frameworks, in addition to creating, implementing, and automating testing in support of software test requirements.
They will also collaborate with QA Analysts to develop, maintain, and enhance the test automation framework and automation infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities:
- Test strategy formulation which includes decomposing the business and technical requirements into test scenarios, defining test data requirements, managing test case creation and other testing preparation activities.
- Formal reviews of test plans, designs, and requirements documents with cross-functional teams.
- Perform effort estimates for projects QA activities and tasks and develop plans and schedules based on the estimates.
- Implement Test Automation leveraging test automation frameworks.
- Executes and reports on planned tests, report and manage defects, regress software fixes for new and existing products, assist development with replicating and debugging problems and develop new test automation solutions as needed.
- Design, implement and manage automated suites of black-box and white-box test scripts.
- Research, Develop and/or Recommend tools to assist QA Analysts in test planning, execution, and
reporting. - Utilize tools such as code coverage tools to assess the coverage of test suites and make
recommendations for additional test cases. - Monitor test execution across multiple code branches and multiple platforms and performing code reviews.
- Management and maintenance of Test Environments.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study
- A minimum of 2 years of experience
- Having the following professional qualifications is an added advantage: ISTQB / ISTQB Agile Tester Certification / Certified Test Engineer (CSTE) / Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) / Certified Associate in Software Testing (CAST) / CMSQ (Certified Manager of Software Quality)
HOW TO APPLY:
If you are qualified and up to the challenge, please follow THIS LINK to submit your application.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.