Test Manager - (CONTRACT)

Key Purpose:

• Accountable for the test process implementation - Testing of the Group’s platform to ensure that a quality system is delivered to their clients
• Responsible for identifying test requirements
• Project manage the User Acceptance Testing phase for each implementation
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the testing process and test methodologies
• Manage activities during testing and ensure resolution of all defects

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

• Develop and contribute to the overall testing strategy
• Participate in JAD sessions to extract requirements needed to compile test plans
• Understand the Product and Business specifications and extract test requirements
• Review test requirements with the test manager and business analyst
• Design test cases and test scenarios based on analysis of business specifications
• Provide estimates for completing test cases and execution
• Build and maintain a repository of regression test cases
• Work closely with the test manager and systems analysts to co-ordinate test activities and in so doing, ensure quality end results are achieved
• Data capturing of the test cases used for manual testing
• Perform functional, negative, positive and regression testing
• Logging, tracking and resolution of defects on JIRA
• Participate in reviewing team members’ work
• Educate and coach junior team members
• Resolve production queries with little or no support and provide junior team members with appropriate guidance in resolving the queries
• Potentially manage a team of testers
• Develop load, performance and stress testing plans

Personal Attributes and Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail
• Accurate
• Ability to grasp concepts quickly
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• An ability to prioritise tasks and work under pressure
• Proactive
• Must be willing to work overtime when required (including weekends where necessary)
• An openness to work with others and build on team input.
• Must have pride in their work and a desire to always deliver perfection. Quality is non-negotiable
• Able to establish a collaborative relationship with the systems area
• The individual must have a strong desire for self-learning
• Good work ethic

Education and Experience

Essential:

• Grade 12 with mathematics, higher grade (minimum C symbol)
• English, higher grade (minimum D symbol) – Must be first language
• Relevant testing qualification
• Minimum 4 years’ experience working as a Test Analyst in the business user testing environment, applied knowledge and solid application of the correct testing methodologies required to perform end-to-end user acceptance testing
• Experience with regression, usability, sanity and functional testing methods
• Basic Excel
• Comfortable with figures and basic mathematical concepts
• Experience with automated testing

Advantageous:

• Experience using JIRA
• Product knowledge
• Experience with Appium, Selenium, Gatling, Fitnesse, TestRail and Hexawise

Kindly regard your application as unsuccessful if you have not heard from the agency within 2 weeks.