Lead Software Development Engineer in Test job at Safaricom Kenya
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Vacancy title:
Lead Software Development Engineer in Test

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Information Technology , Category: Computer & IT ]

Jobs at:

Safaricom Kenya

Deadline of this Job:
20 June 2022  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
Lead Software Development Engineer in Test

Brief Description

Reporting to the Quality Engineering Lead, the position holders will be responsible for standardizing the quality engineering practice across all quality engineering chapters in fintech and new business.

Key Responsibilities;

• Responsible for defining and driving the software quality strategy and roadmap in functional/non-functional and automation within all quality chapters under fintech and new business
• Responsible for providing direction to the QE engineers and chapters to ensure the activities of the team are aligned with all stakeholders
• Responsible for setting up quality gates and criteria for all testing activities within channels and core IT and ensuring adherence to these gates
• Responsible for performing and providing guidance and mentoring on Blackbox & white box testing using best in class procedures and technologies
• Responsible for updating and maintaining the test regression suites for fintech and new business, ensuring over 80% automation to reduce testing man hours and reducing testing times

Qualifications
• Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Development or related subject.
• Must have ISTQB Certification (Test Manager certification, Advanced test automation certification or performance testing certification)
• 5 years + experience in software testing in a busy IT environment
• Strong understanding of the software Testing Life cycle
• Experience in managing large test teams
• Ability to effectively manage competing resources and priorities
• Experience and vast knowledge in Test Driven Development approaches
• Must have experience in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins/Drone/Travis/GitlabCi
• Experienced in at least one mainstream programming language (Java, Python, JavaScript) with a bias towards Java
• Strong risk identification and mitigation planning skills
• Experience in Micro services and containerization platforms
• Experience in Test automation tools and techniques such as Selenium, TestNG, cucumber, Appium etc.
• Experience in performance engineering and tools such as JMeter, Locust.io, HP Load runner

Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 60

Job application procedure
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Job Info
Job Category: Computer/ IT jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 20 June 2022
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 14-06-2022
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 14-06-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 14-06-2065
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