IT Quality Assurance Manager (Northern Suburbs, Cape Town) R60,000 - R80,000 PM 12-Month Contract

Key responsibilities include:

• Quality Assurance and automation team leadership:

- Responsible for the quality of software developed by working closely with all software development Managers, Product Owners, DevOps Manager, General Manager and CIO

- Manage QA and Automation team to deliver goals of the organisation

- Establish and implement overall test frameworks

- Assist and guid other testers and conduct peer reviews

- Identify bottlenecks and devise novel solutions

- Adhere to standards for testing and test strategy

- Maintain compliance with business process and policies

- Identify and remail up to date with new technology trends

• Project and Scrum Team Engagements:

- Work within the Project Team as Scrum Master and/or as Senior QA / Senior Automation Engineer

- Work with other team members to ensure effective test coverage

- Work with other team members to investigate problems

- Design, develop and maintain test plans and test cases

- Assist QA team to perform manual and automation testing on mobile applications, web solutions and integration services

- Perform quality assurance on functional, regression and load/performance testing

- Support the entire product lifecycle (concept, design, test, release and support)

- Gather test metrics to effectively report the progress of testing and final test result

- Participate in daily stand-ups

- Other duties as required

Education and Experience Required:

- 7+ years of software testing experience

- Experience managing teams

- Experience giving technical direction to both onsite and offshore team members

- Experience with end-user testing, usability testing, web services testing API (REST), web testing and mobile testing (Java and Swift)

- Demonstrated coding and scripting languages skills (like C#, Java, etc)

- Demonstrated test case writing skills

- Experience implementing test tools and frameworks

- Direct experience working in an Agile environment

Knowledge and Skills:

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Highly innovative, flexible and self-directed

- Ability to manage a high-performance team focused on accountability and meeting expectations

- Experience working in a small or medium software development company

- Must be able to work well on a personal level with colleagues

- Testing certifications (like ISTQB) is a plus!

- Healthcare domain expertise is a bonus!

This position may require the incumbent to work beyond office hours as required by the needs of the department and this position as well as the needs of the organisation.

Some travel may be required

Ability to attend and conduct presentations is required

Manual dexterity is required to use laptop, iPad and peripherals

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Please note that due to the high volume of applications if you have not been contacted withing 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.