Job Summary
Purpose of the Job:
Define, measure and enforce quality through efficient test coverage and a traceability matrix. Ensure pre-agreed test schedule with delivery managers are being met. Ensure a suitable and stable test environment/lab. Report and manage progress, issues, constraints, dependencies and resources. Define and ensure continuous improvement. Define, measure and manage each team member’s output aligned with the above.
Job Objectives:
To manage test planning and analysis:
- Co-operate with clients/user and senior staff as required to agree the testing strategy to be employed for development projects
- Co-ordinate all activity and all testers during each testing phase of a project or programme
- Determine which tools and utilities work best and how to use them for given situation/project
- Develop, modify, and ensure that software testing plans are executed
- Provide accurate and precise estimates for assigned task duration, along with confidence levels and foreseeable dependencies.
- Initiate test planning activities
- Represent the customer in understanding how they use the system and including the most relevant end to end user scenarios in test plans and automation
- Defining test strategy and test plans and reviewing them with stakeholders
- Identify the testing scope required for each release based on the requirements of the document.
- Ensure optimal test coverage and improve the test coverage
- Identify the testing effort required by calculating the sizing needed for the given release and plan the required effort for the same
- Identify the tools to be used for test reporting, test management, test automation, etc. and identify when test automation is appropriate and, if it is, plan the effort
- Estimate the testing resources and time required and negotiate with management to acquire the necessary resources
- Publish the test plan after discussions with the test team and have it reviewed and approved by the management/ development team
To manage test design and execution:
- Analyse test results to ensure existing functionality and recommend corrective action
- Integrate test suites into the test management system and custom test harnesses
- Propose required functions, tools or scripts to management for approval based on complexity and coverage of solution
- Select and develop appropriate test automation tools, applying the latest techniques in test automation; e.g., data-driven testing
- Update test execution status following agreed-upon processes as part of regularly-scheduled test status updates
- Use risk-driven techniques to develop, maintain, and execute automated test suites for various software applications; i.e., perform automated dynamic testing
- Lead and monitor the analysis, design, implementation and execution of the test cases and test procedures
- Ensure proper configuration management of the testware produced and traceability of the tests to the test basis
- Manage the building of required test environments and ensure that the test environments are in place before test execution and managed during test execution
- Manage test environments, test devices and technology versions required for testing
To manage test monitoring and evaluation:
- Assist in the creation of test project status reports and metrics (e.g., Test Dashboard)
- Consult with developers to resolve issues and provide feedback for the technical appraisal of the tested software program(s) and monitor its deployment across the appropriate system(s)
- Ensure that quality standards are maintained in the team and that the output produced is to acceptable quality standards
To manage test completion:
- Review software design and change specifications to ensure software testing measures meet acceptable reliability standards and project and program objectives
- Trace test cases and results back to specific quality risks
- Schedule the tests for execution and monitor, measure, control and report on the test progress, the s/w product quality status and the test results, adapting the test plan and compensating as needed to adjust to evolving conditions
- Review new or modified tests and introduce improved testing techniques
- Write and present summary reports on test status for each test execution cycles to the stakeholders and management
Team Management:
- Allocate work to test team members based on the skills and abilities of each member
- Co-ordinate and interface with multiple functional groups and teams
- Coach test team members to ensure that appropriate skills and behaviours are developed
- Lead a team of quality analysts and testers including task identification, monitoring progress and issue resolution
Technical Test Process Management:
- Work closely with development and test to review use cases, requirements, workflows and technical specs needed to create automated scripts and tools
- Work with the Development team to capture and reuse automated Unit Test Cases, Test Stubs and Drivers, and other Development test objects
- Work with the Release Management team to create and maintain an automated nightly build verification ("smoke") test.
Test Lab Management:
- Update the weekly Test Store utilization sheet to ensure optimum lab asset utilisation
- Create and maintain the lab asset planning schedule to ensure assets is available and in a working state
- Use Network Monitoring Tools to ensure an always-on Test Environment/Lab
- Conduct quarterly lab asset stocktaking
Qualifications:
- Grade 12
- Diploma or Degree qualified (IT or related technical)
- Formal software testing training and registration (e.g. ISTQB, ISEB)
Experience:
3-5 Years’ experience in a Test Lead/Management position
3-5 Years’ experience in Test Environment Management
3-5 years HP QC or HP ALM experience
3 -5 years Selenium/Test Complete/UFT/QTP/SOAPUI exposure
3- 5 years Cloud Testing (Azure/AWS) and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery Experience
3- 5 years’ experience in Testing in a retail / financial sector
Knowledge and Skills:
3 - 5 years expertise in systems testing, systems integration testing
3 - 5 years expertise in automation testing, user acceptance testing
3 - 5 years Google Suite/MS Office expertise
3 - 5 years expertise in both Manual and Automated Testing
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