Vacancies at Safaricom Kenya

Reporting to the Senior Manager – Fixed Customer Solutions, the position holder will be responsible for managing and coordinating the execution and delivery of implementation projects to the fixed network to achieve the best customer experience from Planning & Design Approval to as-built delivery.

 Job Responsibilities

• Provide preliminary technical vision, direction and delivery expectations before any Fixed project to the home build is initiated.
• To Lead timely project delivery to meet Business needs and projected targets on Revenue.
• To identify and manage all project Risks such as logistical, regulatory, Resourcing and Commercial.
• To prepare and issue regular/weekly project progress reports for timely and accurate project status and decision support information to stakeholders.
• To provide quality control of Safaricom Fixed projects at all Steps of implementation & acceptance in accordance with set standards.
• To guide and provide leadership to the Implementation delivery team
• To provide supplier management, and resolution of any community and 3rd party issues.
• To ensure adherence to OHS policies and stipulated code of Conduct by all suppliers.
• To oversee and manage Fixed network infrastructure (Aerial or Underground) build
• To monitor status of material issuance for build projects.
• To coordinate acquisition of ROW, access, utility easement information from Authorities & landlords and act as the Safaricom representative.
• Support all contract transition activities including joint acceptance of the various distribution networks, hubs & sites.
• Initiation and drafting of the technical scope or requirements of new outsourced implementation services contracts.
• Continuously monitor and evaluate performance of all Implementation vendors activities against set KPIs and SLA whilst maintaining a weekly record and carrying out an analysis of the same.
• Participate in regular Quality Assurance and Performance Audits of all partners in all regions over all technologies and solutions.
• Identify key performance improvement requirements and timescales for delivery through continuous operational stakeholder meetings.
• Prudent management of the Safaricom Implementation Team of engineers

Qualifications - External

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Electrical, Electronics, Civil, Telecommunication Engineering, IT or any related field.
• At least 3 years’ Experience in a busy Telecommunications environment involved in Fiber Implementation - A bias towards Fiber To The X (FTTx) will be an added advantage.
• In-depth understanding of Transmission infrastructure deployment life cycle
• Demonstratable Knowledge in Fiber transmission technologies i.e.
• Active &Passive Optical Networks, GPON being the bare minimum.
• Inside & Outside Plant Engineering Techniques and engineering practices.
• Project Planning & Management, Supplier Management, Contract management and Quality Assurance, OSHS.

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Reporting to the Automation & Governance Lead, the position holder will execute Software testing using automated scripts, create and maintain new automated test scripts and ensure solutions delivered to the customers meet the desired user specifications; ensuring all bugs are identified and resolved before product launch leading to zero revenue losses and customer impact.

Job Responsibilities

• Accountable for end-to-end testing, end to end reporting & analysis on test progress and defect management.
• Creatively try to break applications, via hands-on and scripted testing, before release to market
• Champion and lead agile squads in adopting test driven development approaches
• Contribute to devops practices including but not limited to plugging in test automation suites in existing/new DevOps CI/CD pipelines, providing test tooling and expertise on static code analysis.
• Drive transformations in testing through test automation to achieve higher levels of efficiency and reduce software testing time by more 50%
• Accountable for validation of quality of releases and fully accountable for product readiness to production
• Implement software testing automation framework
• Test automation for Mobile/APIs/Web apps/Desktop apps
• Responsible for end-to-end management of test teams and ensuring the testers execute planned tests within the testing schedule.
• Create detailed test plans for features/releases with clear entry/exit criteria, testing strategy and testing scope
• Conduct Performance tests on products to ensure they meet the minimum performance exit criteria as defined in the test plan.
• Ensure at least 80% test automation of regression testing suites

Qualifications - External

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in IT related Field
• 3 years + experience in software development or Testing Automation in a busy IT environment
• Strong understanding of the software Testing Life cycle (STLC)
• Excellent software development skills coupled with programming experience in Java, Python, JavaScript etc
• Experience of Test-driven Development approaches such as ATDD and BDD
• Experience in use of test management tools (Micro-Focus ALM/Octane is desirable)
• Experience in Unix/Linux Operating System
• Experience in test design techniques (black box and white box)
• Strong risk identification and mitigation planning skills
• Solid understanding of enterprise APIs, Mobile and Web application architectures
• Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies
• Strong knowledge of continuous integration and delivery systems (CI/CD) such as Jenkins/gitlabci/drone/CycleCI
• Experience with at least one test automation tool such as Selenium, Appium, Robot Framework, Pytest, TestNG
• Experience in containerization & container orchestration technologies technologies
• Performance testing using JMETER/HP LoadRunner/locust.io is a huge plus
• ISTQB Certification is a plus