Officer – Test Management - KRA Business Systems at Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA)

Job Summary:

Responsible for conducting performance testing, User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing and other required test and recommend for production deployment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct user acceptance testing with all relevant stakeholders to evaluate that delivered solutions are fit for use and purpose
• Conducts load, stress and performance testing for identified test exercises.
• Carry out vulnerability assessments on network, databases, business systems and services using various tools and personal knowledge
• Conducts regression tests to ascertain that identified issues or bugs have been resolved and new defects are not introduced
• Conducts smoke tests on environments prior to test exercise to validate readiness for user acceptance testing,
• Ensure compliance with the approved policy, best practice, security requirements and set minimum baseline standards
• Develop test cases that conforms to established software testing standards indicating priority areas
• Document defects according to testing standards.
• Generate test data fit for purpose.
• Documents results of completed testing assignments
• Ensure conformity to ISO (9001/2015 and 27001/2013) and data security requirements.

Academic and Professional Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Required

• Should have a combination of the following:
• Good command of SQL language
• Good command of unix/linux/windows
• Good command of Java, java scripts, VB scripts, python

Relevant Work Experience Required

Work experience of at least one (1) year in related IT field.

 Conversant with a good combination of JBOSS, Tomcat, Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL , MySQL

Key Competencies:

• Organisational skills
• Computer proficiency
• Analytical skills
• Communication skills
• Innovative
• Leadership Skills
• Problem solving skills
• Results oriented
• Able to work towards attainment of targets within agreed timelines.
• Team player.