May 7, NCBA Senior Manager, Quality Assurance Jobs in Kenya

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NCBA Senior Manager, Quality Assurance Jobs in Kenya

Job Purpose Statement

The Senior Manager Quality Assurance, is responsible for the implementation of policies and procedures to ensure adherence to production quality standards, monitor and audit processes, material and product testing against established standards and conducting continuous analysis of defects and deviations. The role holder will optimise processes to comply with existing and new requirements.

The Senior Manager Quality Assurance is also responsible for leading the testing, evaluating and

approving of quality, functional and non-functional, requirements for new and existing software.

The role holder will be responsible for developing and executing exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality. The position requires proven working experience in Testing Development and hand-on Software Development Lifecycle, Software Testing Lifecycle experience and team leadership.

This is a role that requires excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to work as part of an agile team,

to manage competing priorities and ensure that quality is driven into the heart of the development process from requirements definition through to delivery.

Key Accountabilities (Duties and Responsibilities)

Software QA Processes

  • he design/analysis, development, delivery and ongoing improvement of all Systems QA processes

    Software Testing

  • Apply knowledge and experience, showing deep understanding of Software Testing Standards to assist business and product teams develop products that solve business needs

    Governance

  • Adherence to internal policies and procedures for the development and management of CBA application development process along ITIL and other best practice standards.
  • Support, maintain and audit existing service lifecycle artefacts, to agreed SLAs.

    Stakeholder Management

  • Effective management of relationships and protocols with other technical platform owners and internal business owners

    Continuous Improvement

  • Advise internal customers on technology improvements that will ensure realization and maximization of business objectives

    Team leadership

  • Provides effective leadership to the Applications Development Team by giving continuous support and

    guidance which translates into a conducive working

    environment and employee satisfaction. This includes

    identifying and facilitating the achievement of personal development initiatives that will grow the team’s knowledge and skills.

    Ideal Job Specifications

  • A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field. A Master’s degree in Technology or Business-related course is an added advantage
  • Minimum 5 years’ experience in IT systems development within a large highly digitized organization designing, implementing and managing mission critical systems, with at least 2 of those years within software testing
  • Experience in writing, executing and monitoring automated test suites using a variety of technologies such as Cucumber, Concordion, Selenium, Appium, Robotium, SoapUI, Jmeter
  • Certification and experience implementing best practice frameworks e.g. ITIL, PRINCE2
  • Hands on experience in software development with major languages Java, Kotlin, C++, C# and practical experience using relation RDBMS e.g. Oracle and MS SQL etc.
  • Strong understanding of SOA lifecycle, Integration patterns and standard methodologies.
  • Knowledge of Linux/Unix commands and SQL will be required.
  • Deep understanding of industry standard formats and protocols (JMS, SOAP, XML/XPath/XQuery, REST and JSON)
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • A good knowledge of the systems and processes within Financial Services industry
  • Issue/bug tracking tools e.g. JIRA
  • Use of continuous integration tools e.g. Gitlab CI/Jenkins
  • Testing Automation

    How to Apply

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