Old Mutual Jobs East London – Lead Software Quality Engineer

Job Description:

Provide Specialised quality testing services for the Old Mutual Insure IT team in order to implement and sustain a best-practice testing framework which ensures optimum testing of the systems that IT services .

Job Responsibilities:

• Contribute to Test Driven Development TDD Framework and upskill feature team members where needed.
• Identifies and drives opportunities for continuous improvement and innovation.
• Review the software for test readiness at both the API level and the GUI level
• Assist with maintaining documentation of the testing outcomes for reference and audit purposes.
• Find defects and work directly with the developer to create a fix and validate it.
• Designing and performing end-to-end tests, including exploratory testing, performance testing.
• Test and Quality Assure components that are categorised as significant or major changes prior to implementation into the production environment to ensure that these components operate according to specified requirements.
• Ensures code commit standards and conventions are adhered to by the Development team, including but not limited to GIT, using agreed tools.
• Applies Quality Assurance for new systems and system changes in accordance with agreed coding standards and principles.
• Collaborates with the various teams to enable an efficient, effective release pipeline.
• Work with the product owner to add and refine the “done” criteria for user stories
• Business Analysis knowledge and ability to analyse business requirements to be met by IT solutions and document it.
• Defines and implements appropriate measures to deal swiftly with the coordination, communication and resolution of unstable builds where impacted by the feature team.
• Performs Peer Review of the solutions being developed
• Act as an independent verifier of data against source data and document any discrepancies
• Assists Scrum Master and other team members in estimation of features
• Actively contributes to improving the quality of code commit standards and conventions.
• Develop frameworks and participate in manual, automated and performance testing.

Job Requirements:

• Performance Testing
• TIA
• Degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or 5 – 10 years equivalent experience)
• 5 to 8 years relevant business experience
• Quality Centre
• Web-based application testing
• Integration testing
• Automation Testing
• Business Analysis knowledge and ability to analyse business
• JIRA
• Experience working within an Agile and DevOps team, and an advocate of that culture

Job Details:

Company: Old Mutual

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Application Deadline: N/A

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