Job Title: Senior QE Engineer – Automation
Hiring Organization: Safaricom
Location – Locality: Nairobi
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: Telecommunication
Job Type: Full
Time
Salary: KES
Date Posted: 05/04/2024
Responsibilities
Technical:
- Produce
& manage level test plans, estimate effort and resource test plans
- Monitor
changes to scope during the development cycle and re-evaluate plans and
resource accordingly
- Manage
expectations of when testing activities will be complete mitigating risks
to key milestones
- Liaise
with the relevant departments to ensure key infrastructure (environments,
interfaces & access) is set-up to enable all required testing
activities
- Manage
the UAT process by supporting clients to establish key scenarios to test
their business processes to maximize benefit of the UAT process ensuring
full acceptance and integration of the software solution
- Assign
work to QA Engineers and manage successful completion of work to set
deadlines
- Manage
processes and procedures locally within the test team and with external
teams across the SDLC to drive and implement improvements to optimize
efficiency and first-time pass rate
- Measure,
develop and optimize quality of team outputs and performance.
- Build
test scripts from various sources including functional specifications,
technical specifications and sessions with developers and designers
- Review
requirements, specifications, user documentation, help files, and other
project documentation to assure quality of the products and tests to be
developed; i.e., perform manual static testing.
- Select
and develop appropriate test automation tools, applying the latest
techniques in test automation; e.g., data-driven testing.
- Use
risk-driven techniques to develop, maintain, and execute automated test
suites for various Software Cafeteria products; i.e., perform automated
dynamic testing.
- Execute
automated tests and validate the results.
- 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 Development team to create and maintain an automated nightly
build verification (“smoke”) test.
- Ensure
proper version control and configuration management of all test objects
developed and test environments used.
- To
facilitate in-house performance testing ensuring that all key
infrastructure, data requirements are met as well as establishing the best
tools for the job
- Identify
key components of the system that are suitable for automation and
implement approach to deliver benefits through automation.
- Experience
with Continuous Integration tool (e.g. Jenkins)
Qualifications
- ISTQB
Foundation Level Certification
- Bachelor’s
Degree in Computer Science or related field Experience
- Relevant
work experience in development and/or testing role.
- Understanding
of agile software development Understanding of web service integration
(e.g.: REST and SOAP XML).
- Experience
with Cloud Technology (e.g.: AWS , GCP, Azure) Experience with NoSQL such
as MongoDB Experience with SQL/ Relational Database (eg:PostgreSQL),
automation, CI/CD, DevOps, testing, JavaScript, selenium, Jenkins, Agile
software, cloud, NoSQL Familiarity with software packing tools (.exe,
.deb, .rpm, Docker…)
- Excellent
verbal and written communication skills
- Good
development/scripting skills in common languages like JAVA, Kotlin,
Python, Ruby etc.
- Database
skills, mainly in MySQL
- Good
understanding of object-oriented programming, J2EE architecture, .NET,
etc.
- Knowledge
of automated testing tools, like LoadRunner, HP ALM 11, Rational Robot,
Selenium, Appium etc.
- Proven
ability to manage and prioritize multiple, diverse projects simultaneously
- Experienced
in Manual Testing at levels of Unit & System covering Functional tests
- Have
strong SQL skills and be able to confidently test batch processes
