Key Performance Objectives

Operational Delivery

• Liaise with stakeholders across Group Technology to ensure that we deliver quality Products end to end
• Manage testing for multiple projects concurrently
• Provide input into the documentation of quality practices and standards with regards to quality engineering with current and future view
• Create the test strategy, approach, and plan for monthly builds and none build initiatives
• Be a guide to cross functional teams and testers on quality practices
• Build a deep understanding of the domain in the QA teams to be able contribute to the ongoing value proposition
• Work closely with developers, config analysts, architects and solution analysts in EBS and in 3rd party teams to ensure that we meet expectations of our customers
• Contribute to retrospective reviews to introduce efficiencies, which will ensure quicker delivery and high quality to our customers
• Actively participating in the planning, estimation and sizing of features and user stories
• Participate in backlog grooming
• Participate in sprint planning and test estimations
• Report and manage testing and the timeous resolution of issues
• Proactive defect management, ensuring adherence to the defect management process
• Encourage the testers/quality engineers to collaborate across cross functional teams and 3rd party teams

Test Automation

• Ensure quality and stable solutions to stakeholders by delivering automated testing solutions and effective quality practices within agreed timelines
• Implement the test automation solutions that are fit for purpose with adequate coverage within the sprints
• Ensure Integration into and continuous test automation execution on ADO, i.e. ensure that automated test suites are integrated into the CI/CD pipelines to enable early testing and detection of defects.
• Perform pull request for test automation code and ensure that that the master branch is updated accordingly and regularly
• Seek ongoing improvement in QA engineering capabilities
• Mentor the testers/engineers to improve their technical abilities
• Develop automation frameworks that can be used across various platforms in EBS.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual testing through automation and streamline testing processes.

Benchmarking & Governance

• Technical coordination and negotiation with all internal and external stake holders on new product development, feature request roadmap, defects prioritization and impact assessment on complete MCG infrastructure were applicable.
• Ability to explain the big picture and complex technical issues in a way that non-technical people may understand.
• Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering across MCG infrastructure.
• Ensure QA artifacts are stored in centralized locations and are easily accessible

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field

Experience

• Minimum of 7 – 10 years’ experience in software testing with increasing levels of responsibility
• Minimum of 3 – 7 years’ experience in leading Quality Assurance team(s)
• 4+ years of experience in Quality engineering, with a strong understanding of automation tools (e.g., Selenium, Appium, Cypress) and testing methodologies
• Experience setting up and working with automation frameworks such as Selenium, BDD with Cucumber, JMeter, Rest Assured