Quality Assurance Engineer at KCB Bank Kenya

The Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for implementing automated test strategies and frameworks, in addition to creating, implementing, and automating testing in support of software test requirements.

The Quality Engineer works with QA Analysts to develop, maintain, and enhance the test automation framework and automation infrastructure. The Quality Assurance Engineer demonstrates strong technical and programming/test automation skill set.

This role reports to Senior Manager, IT Quality Assurance.

Key Responsibilities

• Contributes towards strategy formulation which includes decomposing the business and technical requirements into test scenarios, defining test data requirements, managing test case creation and other testing preparation activities.
• Work with Quality Assurance Engineers in reviews of test plans, designs, and requirements documents with cross-functional teams.
• Perform effort estimates for projects QA activities and tasks and develop plans and schedules based on the estimates.
• Implement Test Automation leveraging test automation frameworks.
• Executes and reports on planned tests, report and manage defects, regress software fixes for new and existing products, assist development with replicating and debugging problems and develop new test automation solutions as needed.
• Design, implement and manage automated suites of black-box and white-box test scripts.
• Research, Develop and/or Recommend tools to assist QA Analysts in test planning, execution, and reporting.
• Utilize tools such as code coverage tools to assess the coverage of test suites and make recommendations for additional test cases.
• Monitor test execution across multiple code branches and multiple platforms and performing code reviews.
• Management and maintenance of Test Environments.

The Person

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field of study.
• Project management and Quality Assurance certifications will be added advantage.
• 4 years progressive experience in Information Technology.
• 3 years Software Development Experience.

To be considered your application must be received by Thursday 30th March 2023.