IT Software Quality Assurance Analyst at KCB Bank Kenya

The Position:

Reporting to Senior Manager, IT Software Quality Assurance, the position is responsible for performing quality reviews on business requirements, developing standardized testing methods and strategies, leading execution of functional and non-functional tests and implementing quality testing and reporting processes in order to track and ensure adherence to quality software development process and products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Champion and coordinate business requirements reviews across functional teams and ensures that the business requirements are complete, precise and testable.
• Works with project team to define and create overall project test strategy/test plan, plan test schedules or strategies and Identifies test resources, estimates test effort in accordance with project scope or delivery dates and ensures that the test strategy is achieved.
• Develop, document and maintain functional and non-functional test cases, test scripts and other test artifacts like the test data, data validation, harness scripts and automated scripts.
• Works collaboratively with the business units and project teams to execute and validate test cases based upon business requirements and ensures that the test cases are traceable to the requirements.
• In collaboration with GEA and other critical stakeholders, tune the SQA processes, adopt tools and define re-usable templates in-line with the adoption and maturity of the SQA Framework.
• Define test process including required test activities and deliverables, conduct Test Readiness Assessment, establish test beds and ensure that test beds are available for all planned white box and black box testing activities.
• Engages, champions and collaborates with technical teams / personnel in non-functional testing including integration, regression, load, performance, security and usability testing.
• Prepare, share and review test results periodically, report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws and develop test acceptance reports for projects and software changes.
• Works with business units to perform post deployment sanity and regression tests and post-implementation review within defined period to confirm that the deployed solution works as per the business requirements.
• Participates in formulation and Implementation of Software process improvement policies and strategies for IT division.

The Person:

For the above position, the successful applicant have the following minimum requirements:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science  or any Information Technology related field from a recognized and reputable University.
• Professional IT certification in the following is desirable: Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), ISTQB, and ITIL
• A minimum of 3 years work experience in software development, software quality assurance and testing
• At least 2 years’ experience in systems support and administration.
• A broad understanding of software quality engineering principles and testing methodologies.
• Knowledge of SQL scripting with relational databases and experience with Unix/Linux operating systems
• Excellent Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills
• Thorough Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) paradigms including Agile Development Process
• Experience with testing of Mobile & Web application and testing of interfaces and integrations
• Creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to software quality related problems.
• Strong Written and Verbal Communication

The above positions are demanding roles for which the Bank will provide a competitive package for the successful candidate. If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please apply on our careers portal.