Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Brief Description
Reporting to the Head, Digital Engineering, the position holder will be responsible for owning, leading, and driving quality engineering practices across all of Safaricom software engineering and digital experience delivery teams as well as providing expert knowledge of test strategy / frameworks and automation of end-to-end test design, execution, and validation, and deficiency identification and remediation, to enable target business capabilities / user journeys. The role holder will also be required to create, lead, manage, and mentor a practice of software developers in Test across the delivery organization, ensuring the development and maintenance of highly skilled and motivated practice members

Responsibilities
Leadership
• Design, build, and troubleshooting data storage, RAID, disk volume management, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Regular team and one-on-one engagements
• Build the skillset according to the fit for future program
• Team performance management and building high performing SDET team
• Facilitate and empowers teams in achieving high performances in Solution delivery, ensuring quality standards are achieved.

Functional Testing
• E2E accountability for testing execution for SITs
• E2E accountability for management UATs
• E2E accountability for product readiness to go to production

Non-Functional Testing
• E2E accountability for performance testing
• E2E Accountability for GDR testing

Automated Testing
• E2E accountability for testing automation as part of the DevOps strategy
• Responsible for automated regression testing for all exposed APIs
• Responsible for automated regression testing for all backend system APIs to be used for upgrades
• Responsible for decreasing the testing time by 50% and increasing quality to have zero major bugs on production.

Systems accountability
• Accountable for building and maintaining testing environments for all IT solutions
• Accountable for setting up and maintaining quality engineering platforms

Qualifications
Functional & Technical/ Skills:
• Technical design assessment and evaluation, risk-based Quality Assurance in web-scale environments
• Automated testing and tools e.g. Selenium
• End-to-end solution test design, execution, and validation, managing testing scenarios across teams / capabilities if necessary
• Unit, integration, system, smoke and user acceptance testing
• Continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies and tools
• Architectural element testing e.g. APIs
• Performance and security testing
• Code reviewing
• Test analytics and trend analysis
• Software incident and problem management
• Expertise in multiple programming and markup languages, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Ruby, SQL, XML, JSON, YAML, and Python


Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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