Test Manager - (CONTRACT)

 

Recruiter:

PM Connection

Job Ref:

4009693967

Date posted:

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa


SUMMARY:
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JOB DESCRIPTION:

Key Purpose:

  • Accountable for the test process implementation - Testing of the Group’s platform to ensure that a quality system is delivered to their clients
  • Responsible for identifying test requirements
  • Project manage the User Acceptance Testing phase for each implementation
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of the testing process and test methodologies
  • Manage activities during testing and ensure resolution of all defects

 

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

  • Develop and contribute to the overall testing strategy
  • Participate in JAD sessions to extract requirements needed to compile test plans
  • Understand the Product and Business specifications and extract test requirements
  • Review test requirements with the test manager and business analyst
  • Design test cases and test scenarios based on analysis of business specifications
  • Provide estimates for completing test cases and execution
  • Build and maintain a repository of regression test cases
  • Work closely with the test manager and systems analysts to co-ordinate test activities and in so doing, ensure quality end results are achieved
  • Data capturing of the test cases used for manual testing
  • Perform functional, negative, positive and regression testing
  • Logging, tracking and resolution of defects on JIRA
  • Participate in reviewing team members’ work
  • Educate and coach junior team members
  • Resolve production queries with little or no support and provide junior team members with appropriate guidance in resolving the queries
  • Potentially manage a team of testers
  • Develop load, performance and stress testing plans

Personal Attributes and Skills:

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Accurate
  • Ability to grasp concepts quickly
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • An ability to prioritise tasks and work under pressure
  • Proactive
  • Must be willing to work overtime when required (including weekends where necessary)
  • An openness to work with others and build on team input.
  • Must have pride in their work and a desire to always deliver perfection. Quality is non-negotiable
  • Able to establish a collaborative relationship with the systems area
  • The individual must have a strong desire for self-learning
  • Good work ethic

 

Education and Experience

Essential:

  • Grade 12 with mathematics, higher grade (minimum C symbol)
  • English, higher grade (minimum D symbol) – Must be first language
  • Relevant testing qualification
  • Minimum 4 years’ experience working as a Test Analyst in the business user testing environment, applied knowledge and solid application of the correct testing methodologies required to perform end-to-end user acceptance testing
  • Experience with regression, usability, sanity and functional testing methods
  • Basic Excel
  • Comfortable with figures and basic mathematical concepts
  • Experience with automated testing

 

Advantageous:

  • Experience using JIRA
  • Product knowledge
  • Experience with Appium, Selenium, Gatling, Fitnesse, TestRail and Hexawise

 

Kindly regard your application as unsuccessful if you have not heard from the agency within 2 weeks.

 

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