ICT – Quality Assurance Test Automation Engineer at Co-operative Bank of Kenya

Reporting to the Head – Quality Assurance, the role of the ICT QA Test Automation Engineer (Test Engineer) will entail the design, build, test, and deployment of effective test automation solutions. To fulfill this role you will require a strong understanding of different testing strategies, approaches and techniques and the technical ability to apply appropriate automation technologies to meet the short and long-term goals of the testing organization. The role objective is to automate as much of the testing effort as possible with a minimum set of code/scripts in building a robust set of regression testing suite through the adoption of appropriate application testing approaches as well as system development techniques. The focus will be to reduce the manual effort required in testing to reduce the effort needed by both technical and business teams in performing user acceptance tests as well as system regression. The role will also ensure reduced time to market in getting solutions out to business while at the same time reducing the risk of systems failing once they are deployed.

The Role

Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:

• Define a test automation strategy for key bank systems based on a broad risk-based analysis in collaboration with the technical teams and business partners and provide expertise and support on use of methods and tools.
• Guide solution developers to ensure they instrument the application code in order to enable effective and repetitive unit testing of the code before it is incorporated into the current build.
• Conduct function & system tests by developing automated solutions to expedite tests. This will be in the form of tooling to increase the efficiency of test preparation and/or the creation of automated of test cases.
• Tasked to put the power of automation into the hands of Test Designers / Testers. The Test Engineer will deploy the simplest solution to meet the defined need with the aim to effectively automate the testing effort.
• Develop and deploy automated solutions to expedite acceptance tests by use of automation tools as part of Acceptance Test and execution of automated test solutions as part of the System being deployed.
• Undertake objective, systematic analysis and draw accurate conclusions based on evidence.
• Have a clear grasp of the testing mandate by proactively determining what should be automated and in what sequence to get the maximum return on the automation investment. 
• Review system performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Deploying and managing the appropriate testing framework to meet the testing mandate. Implementing and evolving appropriate measurements and metrics against products under test.

Skills, Competencies and Experience

The successful candidate will be required to have the following skills and competencies: 

• BSC in Computer Science, Information Technology and/or related fields
• QA, System testing training
• 2+ years of relevant QA experience and having worked as a seasoned Manual Testing / Automation Engineer
• Experience in system testing, test case development, UAT execution, test analysis
• Excellent software development skills
• Results-oriented/focus