Lead Tester at eBiashara Africa

ROLE PURPOSE: 

In this role you will be responsible for testing the company’s portfolio of systems across all phases of testing, ensuring the release is of the highest possible quality. You will be responsible for maintaining and improving multiple test frameworks, the creation of manual and automated test cases, performance testing and integration testing.

Reporting to the Head Testing and QA, you will be responsible for communicating all test progress and outlining any improvements to process.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY: 

1. Work with Project Managers to ensure that designs and technical deliverables meet quality objectives and are realistically estimated
2. Take responsibility for identifying and reviewing activities and deliverables critical to project quality
3. Liaise proactively with Project Managers, Analysts, Business leads, Developers and other testers to identify testing requirements
4. Agree and document the test structure (scenarios, test cases and test scripts)
5. Update and maintain testing documentation (project specific test strategy and test plan)
6. Coordinate resources writing test scripts and actively write test scripts whenever required
7. Organise and coordinate End to end functional testing (E2E), UAT (User Acceptance Testing), System Integration Testing (SIT) and Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
8. Manage the execution of test cycles and reporting on JIRA
9. Ensure test activities comply with good test practices
10. Proactively reduce the number of ‘bug’ related issues being logged by users

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS   

1. Accountability:
2. Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
3. Coordination between teams as we have a set of diverse team sitting at different time zones
4. Creativity:
5. Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
6. Open to new projects and willing to learn

QUALIFICATIONS  

ISEB/ISTQB Foundation Level Certification qualification or similar

Or

3 years testing experience across all phases of testing (development, System, UAT, Integration)