Summary
Date Posted: Friday, May 03 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job purpose statement
This role is responsible for the analysis, design, development and management of automated tests for new and existing software.
Key accountabilities (duties and responsibilities)
• Designing, developing and supporting frameworks for our test infrastructure and providing automation expertise to our development teams.
• Contributing toward predictable delivery of quality releases
• Mentor team members on test automation to build a culture of excellence.
• Document and maintain a robust log of all test cases and results.
• Work with business and product development to develop functional and technical requirements and propose solutions to address these requirements.
• Make efficient use of source control and bug tracking systems
• Identify, analyse and report test results
• Ensure that all the assigned bank information technology platforms keep pace with technological innovations and developments as a way of protecting investment in technology.
• Evaluate, plan, and breakdown qa tasks and work packages in software development projects within agreed time constraints.
• Provide input into the development and maintenance of business continuity plan and data security plan for the bank’s software platforms in order to guarantee continuation of services at all times.
• Knowledge transfer on test automation frameworks to the application development and integration teams.
• Performs research and development to evaluate emerging technologies and their potential to optimize testing processes.
• Test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability and general reliability

Job specifications
Academic:
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or related field. A master’s degree in technology or business-related course is an added advantage
Desired work experience:
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in it systems development within a large highly digitized organization designing, implementing and managing mission critical systems, with at least 2 of those years within software testing
• Experience in writing, executing and monitoring automated test suites using a variety of technologies such as cucumber, concordion, selenium, appium, robotium, soapui, jmeter
• Certification and experience implementing best practice frameworks e.g. Itil, prince2
• Hands on experience in software development with major languages java, kotlin, c++, c# and practical experience using relation rdbms e.g. Oracle and ms sql etc.

Job competencies
Technical competencies
• Strong understanding of soa lifecycle, integration patterns and standard methodologies.
• Knowledge of linux/unix commands and sql will be required.
• Deep understanding of industry standard formats and protocols (jms, soap, xml/xpath/xquery, rest and json)
• Itil, and prince 2 certification
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• A good knowledge of the systems and processes within financial services industry
• Issue/bug tracking tools e.g. Jira
• Use of continuous integration tools e.g. Gitlab ci/jenkins
• Testing automation
Behavioral competencies
• Interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with and manage stakeholders
• Commercial acumen: the role holder should have an intricate knowledge of our business: it’s vision, mission, strategy, values and how it operates.
• Excellent leadership & communication skills: the ideal candidate can clearly communicate and share the test automation matters with all stakeholders across the organization
• Innovative & adaptable: ideal candidate is passionate about innovation of new architecture and enhancing existing ones to leverage these cutting-edge technologies.
• Self-driven & results oriented: ideal candidate should be self-motivated and self-managing.
• Knowledge and experience in modern practices for software testing in medium to large banks to provide guidance on quality improvements and strategic changes
• Technical skills to effectively perform or guide performance of application design and operations activities/tasks in a manner that consistently produce high quality of service.
• Knowledge and effective application of all relevant banking policies, processes, procedures and guidelines to consistently achieve required compliance standards or benchmarks.
• Self-empowerment to enable development of open communication, teamwork and trust that are needed to support performance and customer-service oriented culture.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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