Job Purpose

To Lead the Test Implementation in accordance with the agreed Quality Assurance principles and standards in order to manage the Product risk and inter-dependencies during the Product Life-Cycle. Ensure alignment across Business Analysis, Development, Quality Assurance and Environments to optimise the testing efficiencies across the Product delivery stack. Ensure team effectiveness and healthy team dynamics.

Job Responsibilities

• Build a deep understanding of the business need in order to contribute to the ongoing value proposition.

• Liaise with Stakeholders across Group Technology to build a network that will align to nWoW.

• Participate in the sprint planning, and success criteria per story/epic.

• Participate in the Squad backlog grooming.

• Facilitate the daily stand-up where necessary and manage the issues raised by the Software Quality & Test Engineers and remove any blockers.

• Encourage the Software Quality Engineers to collaborate across team to ensure efficient implementation of Product and ensure automation governance is adhered to by all.

• Facilitate the handover of QA deliverables for all testing phases.

• Review and ensure all QA artefacts are stored centrally.

• Encourage continuous learning and questioning of the business and technology.

• Allow for and encourage significant investment in the end-to-end QA design.

• Review and prioritise all issues raised by the Software Quality Engineers.

• Work with the Enterprise Quality Assurance Practise Lead on the metrics and reporting to communicate testing status.

• Ensure the QA deliverables produced aligned to the test approach.

• Encourage the Software Quality Engineers to collaborate across team to ensure efficient implementation of Product and ensure automation governance is adhered to by all.

• Review and ensure all QA artefacts are stored centrally.

• Management of the QA code repository, including standards, governance etc

• Encourage continuous learning and questioning of the business and technology.

• Allow for and encourage significant investment in the end-to-end QA design.

• Review and prioritise all issues raised by the Software Quality Engineers.

• Work with the Enterprise Quality Assurance Practise Lead on the metrics and reporting to communicate testing status.

• Ensure the QA deliverables produced aligned to the test approach.

• Communicate the Product risk to the Product Owner, Scrum Master & QA Practise Lead and highlight any mitigating factors.

• Ensure the defect management process is adhered to by the Software Quality Engineers and where necessary chair the defect triage sessions.

• Participate in the retrospective reviews and seek efficiencies which will ensure quicker delivery with high quality to our client(s).

• Produce a closeout report and monitor product health in production for 2 weeks to ensure any issues are referenced in the report for completeness.

• Elicit business and Subject Matter Expert participation and input where necessary.

• Encourage Peer reviews of the QA artefacts.

• Understand and manage own demand (including own automation delivery) based on expected timelines articulated by the line-management and project expectations.

• Collaborate with Peers and industry experts to understand technical advances and its application within the Nedbank eco-system.

• Seek ongoing improvements in technical capabilities.

• Mentor the Engineers within the team to improve their technical capabilities.

• Responsible for input and feedback on performance management of squad members

• Ensure the team dynamics are healthy (coaching and mentoring, assist with decision making, encourage self-organisation and assist with prioritisation).

• Ensure squad members time sheets are managed.

• Responsible for resource capacity plan(s).

• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values.

• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise.

Essential Qualifications

• Tertiary Diploma/Degree or equivalent experience

• Preferred Qualifications

• Bootcamp training in Agile

• Essential Certifications

• ISTQB Foundation or similiar

Minimum Experience Level

2 or more years in a Lead role

6-8 years test automation experience

Java

Selenium

API testing (RestAssured/Karate/SOAPUI)

Jmeter

Type of Exposure

Experience in an Agile development environment using Scrum / SAFe and/or Extreme / Pair Programming

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Programming (OOP)

• Java Development with J2EE and/or Springboot knowledge (Advanced)

• Automation testing using Selenium

• Use of repository systems ie: Azure Repos

• Testing of Services using automation tools such as Rest Assured (and SOAPUI).

• BDD and TDD

• Continuous Integration (CI) process with Jenkins or Azure Pipelines.

• Agile methodology and working in agile teams

• Use of Maven

• Use of Jira and Confluence

• Exposure to Cloud technology.

• Experience in building stubs.

• Experience in Service Virtualisation

Behavioural Competencies

Technical / Professional Knowledge and Skills

Influencing

Work Standards

Managing Work

Decision Making

Building Partnerships

Planning & Organising

Leading & Coaching