We are pleased to announce the following Position in the Digital IT Department within the Technology Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below.
Brief Description
Reporting to the QA- Test Lead, the position holder will be responsible for implementing governance around quality assurance processes, set up quality gates and assessing the maturity of QA organization. He /she will also enforce adherence to QA processes with constant assessment and reporting.
He / she will also be accountable for implementation of test environment management strategy and ensure availability of test environments. He / she is also accountable for test resources management and ensuring that these are available within stipulated timelines and SLAs
Role purpose:
Implement and lead quality assurance center of excellence
Responsible for defining testing schedules, policies and enforce adherence
Adopt creativity to achieve higher levels of competency and efficiency through adoption of fit for future technologies.
Accountable for implementation and management of fully functional test environments for all IT systems ensuring stability of all test environments including subsequent upgrades and modernizations on these environments
Accountable for administration and maintenance of test management tools (e.g ALM); ensuring proper use of all test tools
Define suitable metrics for measuring the quality of executing QA processes and validation of quality of all releases and reporting
Accountable for setting up quality gates and ensuring that all products & solutions are comprehensively checked and passed through all the gates before go-live
Accountability for test resources management including building of tools to manage the test resources and build a process around the management of test resources
Test data management automation and ensure test data availability within stipulated timelines
Qualifications
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Development or related subject
3 years + experience in quality assurance in a busy IT environment
At least 2 years in system administration or environment provisioning and monitoring
Experience in any programming language e.g. java, python, groovy etc.
Strong understanding of maturity models for quality assurance
Experience with analysis and report generation and presentation
Experience with test data management procedures is a plus
ISTQB Certification is a plus
Apply via :
safaricom.taleo.net
