QA Lead

• Liaise with Stakeholders across Group Technology to build a network that will align to nWoW
• Ensure stable solutions to stakeholders by delivering automated testing solutions and quality practices within agreed time lines and within agreed risk parameters
• Provide advice to clients on quality practices
• Build and foster deep relationship with Peers, Subject Matter Experts, Developers, Product Owner and other Stakeholders though honest communication which align to the Nedbank Values
• Build a deep understanding of the domain in order to contribute to the ongoing value proposition
• Work closely with Quality Assurance Leads, Practise Leads, Developers, Architects, Product Owner and other Stakeholders to meet the expectations of our clients
• Participate in the overall PI planning and the squad deliverables including capacity estimation and interdependencies
• Obtain and review relevant artefacts from stakeholders (eg: technical landscape, architecture design, technology roadmaps)
• Create the Test Strategy, approach or plan and ensure alignment to the squad objectives
• Contribute to the systematic breakdown of the business needs into manageable feature(s), stories and epics that can be delivered
• Ensure all committed user stories and acceptance criteria are tested for the specific release ensuring quality is not compromised
• Participate in the backlog grooming and in the sprint planning
• Participate in the daily stand-up where necessary, manage the issues raised by the Software Quality & Test Engineers and raise relevant associated risks
• Encourage the Software Quality & Test Engineers to collaborate across squads to ensure efficient implementation of deliverables and ensure automation governance is adhered to by all
• Perform pull requests and ensure all feature branches are committed to Master
• Review that the test automation solution meets the architectural and development standards that are re-usable and scalable
• Challenging the business and technology solutions in alignment with client value proposition
• Ensure integration into and continuous test automation execution on DevOps pipelines
• Work with the Enterprise Quality Assurance Practise Lead on the metrics and reporting to communicate quality engineering practices
• Ensure the defect management process is adhered to by the Software Quality & Test Engineers
• Ensure artefacts are easy obtainable by storing all relevant artefacts in the repository
• Participate in the retrospective reviews and seek efficiencies which will ensure quicker delivery with high quality to our client(s)
• Encourage Peer reviews of the QA artefacts
• Understand and manage own demand 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
• Ensure alignment of solution with emerging technologies and impact on Nedbank technologies
• Mentor the Engineers within the team to improve their technical capabilities
• Provide input into the documentation of standards & quality practices for Quality engineering for the organisation's current and future technological architecture
• Provide input into performance management of team members (e.g. performance contracts, development plans, poor performance and improvement plans, and review)
• Ensure the team dynamics are healthy (coaching and mentoring, assist with decision making, encourage self-organisation and assist with prioritisation)
• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values
• Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking

• Professional Qualifications/Honour's Degree

• Ability to understand and interpret logical solution architecture
• Use of testing tools and frameworks (E.g. Selenium, Appium, RestAssured, Karate, Jira, JMeter)
• Experience of implementing QA solutions within a continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline
• Object-orientated Programming (OOP)
• Development languages; C#, Java
• Mobile Test Automation
• Soap and RESTFUL services
• Service virtualisation & Data virtualisation
• Vulnerability testing
• Performance and load testing

• Adaptability
• Decision Making
• Emotional Intelligence Essentials
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
• Influencing
• Quality Orientation
• Planning and Organizing
• High-Impact Communication

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