Software Quality Testing Manager at Family Bank Ltd

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 other team members in Enterprise Architecture (EA) 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.Any other official duty that may be allocated by management from time to time.
• 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 ICT Division.

The Person:

The ideal candidate must possess the following:

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in preferably in Business or IT related field with 6 Years’ Experience in a banking Sector or a Telco.
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in Software Quality Assurance & ICT Projects
• Certification in Project Management or ITIL or ISTQB Foundation or ISTQB Agile Tester or Certified Test Engineer (CSTE) or Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) or Certified Associate in Software Testing (CAST) or Certified Manager of Software Quality (CMSQ), DevOPs.

Key Competencies and Attributes:

• Influence stakeholders to adopt standard working frameworks and collaboration with IT and Business Owners and Subject Matter Experts during innovation identification and appraisal of Projects
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
• Know all components of holistic enterprise architecture.
• Familiar with graphical modeling approaches, tools and model repositories
• Communicate clearly and persuasively, orally or in writing, dealing with technical issues in a nontechnical manner.
• Work participatively on projects with technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Analyse and choose between options where the solution is not always obvious.
• Capacity to influence decisions at senior management levels
• Analyse information from range of sources and develop effective solutions/recommendations.
• Keep abreast of technical developments and trends, bring these into day-to-day work when feasible and build them into new project developments.
• Proficient in latest technology for IT systems and management.
• Aim to get things done well and set and meet challenging goals, create own measures of excellence and constantly seek ways of improving performance.