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Performing quality reviews on business requirements, developing standardized testing methods and strategies, leading execution of functional and non-functional tests and implementing quality testing and reporting processes to track and ensure adherence to quality software development process and products.

The role reports to Snr Manager Software Quality Assurance.

Responsibilities or duties

Key Responsibilities:

• Champion and coordinate business requirements reviews across functional teams and ensures that the business requirements are complete, precise, and testable.
• Works with project team to define and create overall project test strategy/test plan, plan test schedules or strategies and Identifies test resources, estimates test effort in accordance with project scope or delivery dates and ensures that the test strategy is achieved.
• Develop, document, and maintain manual and automated functional testcases, non-functional test cases, test scripts and other test artifacts like the test data, data validation, harness scripts and automated scripts.
• Works collaboratively with the business units and project teams to execute and validate test cases based upon business requirements and ensures that the test cases are traceable to the requirements.
• In collaboration with GEA and other critical stakeholders, tune the SQA processes, adopt tools and define re-usable templates in-line with the adoption and maturity of the SQA Framework.
• Define test process including required test activities and deliverables, conduct Test Readiness Assessment, establish test beds, and ensure that test beds are available for all planned white box and black box testing activities.
• Engages, champions, and collaborates with technical teams / personnel in non-functional testing including integration, regression, load, performance, security, and usability testing.
• Prepare, share, and review test results periodically, report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws and develop test acceptance reports for projects and software changes.
• Works with business units to perform post deployment sanity and regression tests and post-implementation review within defined period to confirm that the deployed solution works as per the business requirements.
• Participates in formulation and Implementation of Software process improvement policies and strategies for IT division.

Qualifications or requirements

The Person

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study(Required).
• Master’s degree in business administration or project management (Added Advantage)
• Professional ISTQB / ISTQB Agile Tester Certification / Certified Test Engineer (CSTE) / Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) / Certified associate in software Testing (CAST) / CMSQ (Certified Manager of Software Quality). (Required)
• Professional certification in ISTQB / ISTQB Agile Tester Certification / Certified Test Engineer (CSTE) / Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) / Certified associate in software Testing (CAST) / CMSQ (Certified Manager of Software Quality)-(Added Advantage).
• Professional Certification PRINCE II (Practitioner) / AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM) -Added advantage.
• Master’s degree in business administration or project management (Added Advantage)

Experience needed

• 3 years’ experience in Software Quality Assurance (Required)
• 3 years’ experience IT Projects (Essential)
• 2 years’ experience Emerging Technologies (e.g. Mobile, Internet Banking, Cloud, Microservices etc)(Desired).
• 2 years’ experience Software Applications & Support (Desired)
• 2 years’ experience Software Development (Desired)

Any other provided details

The above position is a demanding role for which the Bank will provide a competitive remuneration package to the successful candidate. If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please log in to our Recruitment portal and submit your application with a detailed CV.

Qualified candidates with disability are encouraged to apply.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

• Champion and coordinate business requirements reviews across functional teams and ensures that the business requirements are complete, precise, and testable.
• Works with project team to define and create overall project test strategy/test plan, plan test schedules or strategies and Identifies test resources, estimates test effort in accordance with project scope or delivery dates and ensures that the test strategy is achieved.
• Develop, document, and maintain manual and automated functional testcases, non-functional test cases, test scripts and other test artifacts like the test data, data validation, harness scripts and automated scripts.
• Works collaboratively with the business units and project teams to execute and validate test cases based upon business requirements and ensures that the test cases are traceable to the requirements.
• In collaboration with GEA and other critical stakeholders, tune the SQA processes, adopt tools and define re-usable templates in-line with the adoption and maturity of the SQA Framework.
• Define test process including required test activities and deliverables, conduct Test Readiness Assessment, establish test beds, and ensure that test beds are available for all planned white box and black box testing activities.
• Engages, champions, and collaborates with technical teams / personnel in non-functional testing including integration, regression, load, performance, security, and usability testing.
• Prepare, share, and review test results periodically, report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws and develop test acceptance reports for projects and software changes.
• Works with business units to perform post deployment sanity and regression tests and post-implementation review within defined period to confirm that the deployed solution works as per the business requirements.
• Participates in formulation and Implementation of Software process improvement policies and strategies for IT division.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study(Required).
• Master’s degree in business administration or project management (Added Advantage)
• Professional ISTQB / ISTQB Agile Tester Certification / Certified Test Engineer (CSTE) / Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) / Certified associate in software Testing (CAST) / CMSQ (Certified Manager of Software Quality). (Required)
• Professional certification in ISTQB / ISTQB Agile Tester Certification / Certified Test Engineer (CSTE) / Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) / Certified associate in software Testing (CAST) / CMSQ (Certified Manager of Software Quality)-(Added Advantage).
• Professional Certification PRINCE II (Practitioner) / AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM) -Added advantage.
• Master’s degree in business administration or project management (Added Advantage)