Team Lead - Automated Testing

SUMMARY:
Looking for a Team Lead who has experience in automated testing, who is a self-starter with amazing communication skills, for a client based in Centurion to work in their IT department. The successful candidate will be required to facilitate team leadership and supervision within the Test Analyst team.

POSITION INFO:
Duties and Responsibilities:

• Planning, scheduling and prioritising tests and resources while building and effectively supervising a diverse team of testers.
• Driving testing within the organisation and ensuring that it continues to be a valued and necessary part of the application lifecycle.
• Always seeking to continuously improve software quality, testing tools, testing processes and testing environments.
• Ensuring that a suitable and consistent testing methodology is employed for manual, automated and user acceptance tests.
• Team Leadership and Mentorship.
• Providing leadership and mentorship to other team members.
• Furthering the testing best practices already established in line with industry standards.
• Working with the product owner and development team lead to translate specifications into test plans.
• Defining and implementing test methodologies for use in the technology team.
• Defect Management.
• Test Management.
• Providing test analysis and reporting.
• Reporting test progress, results and key metrics to stakeholders at agreed intervals.

• Matric.
• ISTQB – Foundation testing certification is a must.
• Relevant IT Tertiary Qualification.
• Training on Development and Testing IDE’s. E.g. MS SQL Server, Visual Studio / Code, Git.
• Specific training on test automation and test automation techniques is a must.
• 3 – 5 years’ relevant and practical experience with automating software tests.
• 1 – 2 years leadership / supervisory experience.
• Proven leadership ability.
• Experience in software testing including methodologies (agile, functional and non-functional), test planning, test case development, execution, and quality assessment of test cases.
• Possess a good understanding of Quality Control and Quality Assurance concepts across the SDLC.

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