QA Lead

SUMMARY:
Psybergate is an IT company that builds bespoke software solutions and provides highly skilled resources to its clients.
We are looking for a Quality Assurance Lead (QA Lead) to join our financial services client based in Sandton for a 12-months contract role.

POSITION INFO:
What you will be doing: 

• Liaise with Stakeholders across Group Technology to build a network that will align to the company.
• 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 company 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 company eco-system.
• Seek ongoing improvements in technical capabilities.
• Ensure alignment of solution with emerging technologies and impact on company 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.

• Completed IT / BSc degree or other related fields
• 7 – 10 years experience as QA Lead or Test Analyst.
• Good working knowledge of Front End and API automation as well as Performance Testing (NFT).
• Tools include Selenium/Appium/Healenium, RestAssured and JMeter