Vacancies at Kenya Airways

Brief Description

Job Purpose Statement: The Solution Architect will be responsible for strategic design and planning of solutions within the KQ technology environment. She/he will be the leader of the process that develops solutions to fit an enterprise architecture in terms of a business, information, and technical standpoint. Technology Solutions Delivery team has faced challenges in ensuring suitable designs. It is therefore critical to fill this role to ensure delivery of key business enabling projects that cut across the whole Kenya Airways company.

Detailed Description

• Responsible for monitoring solution development / deployment process and keeping stakeholders updated and informed on the progress.
• Providing recommendations and roadmaps for proposed solutions
• Performing solutions design, debug, and analysis
• Documenting and sharing best practice knowledge for new solutions
• Advocating for process improvements and helping develop solutions.
• Regularly communicating new features and benefits to partners, customers, and other stakeholders
• Providing technical leadership to a team throughout the project lifecycle
• Developing proof-of-conceptprojects to validate your proposed solutions.
• Reviewing and validating solutions designs from other team members.
• Review the long-term use of product and implement scalability and adaptability into the solution for the future.

Job Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree or higher in information technology, computer science, software engineering, or related field.
• Relevant certifications.
• TOGAF certification is an added advantage
• A minimum of 4 years Information Technology experience 2 of which, must be in design or software development

Additional Details

• Data Warehouse
• Infrastructure and engineering design
• System security measures
• Business analysis
• Database management
• Cloud development
• Web platforms
• Hardware and software management
• Network Administration
• Project and product management

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Brief Description

Job Purpose Statement: The Quality Assurance Analyst will be responsible for implementing governance around quality assurance processes, setting up quality gates, and assessing the maturity of the QA organization. He /she will also enforce adherence to QA processes with constant assessment and reporting. He/she will also be accountable for the implementation of a test environment management strategy and ensure the availability of test environments. He/she is also accountable for test resources management and ensuring that these are available within stipulated timelines and SLAs.

Detailed Description

• Develop, implement, and manage processes to ensure that systems and products meet the required specifications for quality, function, and reliability prior to delivery.
• Identifies and sets appropriate quality standards and parameters for systems, products, and business rules.
• Identifies reports and analyzes issues, bugs, defects, and other problems, particularly when problems recur in multiple products; recommends and facilitates solutions to these issues.
• Involved in the creation and execution of test plans and participates in product testing.
• Develop and maintain testing documentation.
• Ensure that QA/QC processes are in place, maintained throughout the IT systems implementation and software development life cycles, and reviewed/revisited periodically to ensure all standard operating procedures reflect the most up-to-date, internationally accepted practices, ensure compliance with evolving innovations, and ensure responsiveness to new technologies as they become available.
• Communicates quality standards and parameters to Project Team, development team, and other appropriate staff.
• Perform quality assurance role for any IT systems replacement, major upgrade or acquisitions.
• Review customer user feedback to confirm quality.
• Maintains compliance with the relevant local and international applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and policies.
• Develop and maintain systems and products quality assurance policies, procedures, and QA success criterion.
• Undertake systems quality assurance reviews and recommend corrective actions.

Job Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree or higher in information technology, computer science, software engineering, or related field.
• Certification in project management is an added advantage (prince2, prince2 Agile, PMP).
• At least 5years overall IT experience with 2 years in quality assurance role

Additional Details

• Computer and operating systems
• Detail-oriented.
• Time Management
• Flexibility in AnalyticalApproaches
• Collaboration and Teamwork
• Critical Thinking skills
• Excellent Communication skills