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Position Title: Business Analyst
Key Responsibilities
Position Title: Business Analyst
Role Purpose: The role will
be the liaison between business system users and the information technology
team in as far as creating automated business solutions is concerned.
The role holder will also be
responsible for gathering, detailing and documenting business requirements in a
format that is useful to business end users and technical developers, propose
ways in which the existing processes and systems can be used or changed to meet
new business requirements as well as point out and identify new systems needed
to meet business requirements, within the context of a well established
Enterprise IT Architecture.
Business Requirements Analysis
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Carry out full business requirements
discovery that includes interviewing relevant stakeholders and end-users.
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Collect, classify, analyze and
document business requirements as per set standards.
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Create high-level solution designs to
meet business requirements by exploiting the functionality available in IT
systems already in Safaricom, or by filling missing gaps with appropriate new
systems, in accordance with enterprise architecture
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Collaboratively develop test-driven
business requirements and functional specifications with business, technical,
and testing team members.
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Participate in technical/functional
evaluation of bids for new systems
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Ensure sensible consensus is reached
for all requirements/specifications and help business, IT, and test leads to
have the same mutual understanding thereof.
Business Process Documentation
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Generate process documentation that
clarifies and validates how the organization utilizes business systems to meet
business requirements
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Ensure that IT systems are aligned
with Safaricom business processes, and engage business stakeholders in process
reviews to ensure:
1. development costs for new business applications/products are
reduced
2. quick reaction to urgent business needs, and any new regulations
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Improved user/customer experience and
quality assurance
Release Planning and Prioritization
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Promote proper release planning,
guaranteeing adherence to business needs and priorities and as a consequence,
contribute to the reduction of development costs in future
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Follow a prioritization process that
is transparent and understandable for all parties involved
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Keep stakeholders constantly
up-to-date on progress
Requirements Testing
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Verify that requirements are testable
and generate testing objectives.
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Review test cases for accuracy.
Validate User Acceptance results conform to requirements
Qualification
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Degree in computer science,
Information Technology or any other related Technical field.
Experience and Skills
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Business analysis skills
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Excellent systems analytical and
communication (written and verbal) skills along with meeting facilitation
skills
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Logical and physical data modeling,
relational databases.
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Experience in writing formal Use
Cases and other UML tools
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Demonstrated experience producing
requirements that support test-driven development.
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Excellent communication skills: BAs
must be able to listen to customers, document requirements quickly &
accurately, and review written materials for accuracy. Must also be
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able to communicate specifications to
person’s at all technical levels.
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Expertise in enterprise architecture.
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3+ years experience as a systems
developer/business analyst in a busy IT development environment, 2 years of
which must include experience in systems analysis.
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Communication and interpersonal
skills
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Problem solving skills
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Decision making skills
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Desire to continually learn new
skills
Role title: Quality Analyst – Functional Testing Engineer
Role
Description:Reporting to the QA- Functional
Testing Lead,the position holder will execute Software functional testing and
ensure solutions delivered to the customers meet the desired user specifications;
ensuring all bugs are identified and resolved before product launch leading to
zero revenue losses and customer impact.
He / he is responsible for executing
the test strategy; plan, monitor and control the testing activities related to
User Acceptance testing, with an emphasis on validating solution / product
readiness for production.
Role
purpose:
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Accountable for end to end user
acceptance testing, end to end reporting & analysis on test progress,
testing process and tracking of bugs to resolutions and stakeholder management,
ensuring product testing is executed within the planned timelines
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Adopt creativity to achieve higher
levels of competency and efficiency through adoption of fit for future
technologies.
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Responsible for end to end management
of large test teams and ensuring the testers execute within planned timelines
and scope for the projects
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Accountable for implementation and
management of fully functional test environments for all IT systems ensuring
stability of all test environments including subsequent upgrades and
modernizations on these environments
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Accountable for administration and
maintaining tools for test management (ALM); ensuring proper use of all test
tools
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Define suitable metrics for measuring
test progress and evaluation of the quality of the testing process and products
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Accountable for setting up quality
gates and ensuring that a product is comprehensively checked and passed through
all the gates before acceptance testing
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Accountability in test data
management including building of tools to manage the test resources and build a
process around the management of test resources
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Accountable for validation of quality
of all releases and fully accountable for product readiness to production
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Undertake programs to increase the
quality of delivery and ensure zero major defects escape into production
Role
Requirement and experience
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Bachelor of Science Computer Science,
Computer Engineering or Software Development or related subject
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2 years + experience in software
testing in a busy IT environment
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Strong understanding of the software
Testing Life cycle (STLC)
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Experience in managing large test
teams
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Ability to effectively manage
competing resources and priorities
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Knowledge of Acceptance Test Driven
Development
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Experience in functional testing and
use of test management tools (Micro-Focus ALM)
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Experience in test design techniques
(black box and white box)
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Experience with report generation and
analysis of testing results
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Strong risk identification and
mitigation planning skills
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ISTQB Certification is a plus
Role title: Quality Analyst – Non-Functional Testing Engineer
Role Description:Reporting
to the Manager – Non-Functional Testing, the position holder will execute the
strategy and frameworks in Software non-functional testing and ensure solutions
delivered to the customers meet the required standards for quality.
He/
she is responsible for ensuring that products delivered to production are
stable and security-proof.
Role purpose:
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Test planning, design, execution of
non-functional testing (performance, load, stress, security, usability
testing), result analysis and reporting.
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Adopt creativity to achieve higher
levels of competency and efficiency through adoption of fit for future technologies.
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Execute non functional testing within
the planned schedules to ensure ontime delivery of products
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Responsible for planning, monitoring
and implementing controls in non fuctional testing activities
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Define suitable metrics for measuring
nonfunctional test progress and evaluation of the quality of the testing
process and products
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Responsible for implementation and
management of fully functional test environments ensuring stability of all test
environments including subsequent upgrades and modernizations on these
environments
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Accountable maintenance of tools for
non-functional testing (load and performance, security, usability etc)
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E2E Accountability for GDR testing
and ensuring working BCP plans are in place for all solutions
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Lead programs to measure, analyze,
monitor, manage, and optimize performance and scalability of our current
applications and systems.
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Responsible for reviewing, reporting
and making data driven decisions around performance issues or bottlenecks.
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Review uncovered application bottlenecks
and facilitate resolution with development, Infrastructure, DBA and security
teams to ensure no defects in regards to quality attributes escape to
production.
Role Requirement and experience
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Bachelor of Science Computer Science,
Computer Engineering or Software Development or related subject
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2 years + experience in software
design, development or non-functional testing in a busy IT environment
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Experience in at least one
programming language
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Experience in use of performance and
other non-functional testing automated tools – Load runner, J-meter, HP fortify
etc
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Hands-on QA experience with proven
analytical and testing skills – Experience in developing test strategies, test
plans, test scenarios and test cases
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Knowledge of automated testing
frameworks
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Experience with metric gathering,
report generation and analysis of testing results
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Ability to show creativity and
initiative to improve product test coverage and effectiveness
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Strong risk identification and
mitigation planning skills
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Motivated self-starter, with a high
capacity for rapid learning and meticulous attention to detail
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ISTQB Certification is a plus
Role title: Quality Analyst – Test Automation Engineer
Role Description:Reporting
to the Manager – Testing Automation,the position holder will lead the
implementation and execution of software automation strategy and frameworks and
ensure efficiencies are realized in the software testing lifecycle (reduce
software testing time by 50%)shortening the software development cycles and
hence reducing time to market for products.
He
/ she is responsible for executing test automation program specifically on
System integration testing, functional and regression testing, with an emphasis
on using open source tools for automation, and subsequent integration to continuous
integration tools
Role purpose:
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Implement software automation
frameworks
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Drive transformations in testing
through automation to achieve higher levels of efficiency and reduce software
testing by 50%
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Lead programs to increase the quality
of delivery and ensure zero major defects escape into production ensuring zero
impact on customers on launch of products
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Accountable for setting up and
maintaining tools for test automation
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Responsible for stability of all test
environments including proper controls implemented
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Responsible for designing, running
and reporting on automated test suites (Unit tests, SITs, Functional and
Regression Testing – including all APIs) and tracking all bugs to resolution
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Contribute to continuous integration
and continuous deployment – test automation test suites integration to the
CI/CD pipeline
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Responsible for integration of test
execution tools to test management tools and project management tools (ALM,
JIRA etc)
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Define suitable metrics for measuring
automated test progress and evaluation of the quality of the testing process
and products
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Run automated test suites, analyze
reports and share this with all stake holders
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Identify all software bugs and work
with the developers and other stakeholders to close all the defects within stipulated
timelines
Role Requirement and Experience
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Bachelor of Science Computer Science,
Computer Engineering or Software Development or related subject
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2 years + experience in software
design, development or Testing Automation in a busy IT environment
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Experience in test automation using
open source tools – Katalon Studio, Selenium, Appium
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Excellent software development skills
coupled with programming experience in Python, Perl, Shell and Java, groovy etc
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Hands-on QA experience with proven
analytical and testing skills – Experience developing test strategies, test
plans, test scenarios and test cases
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Knowledge of automated testing
frameworks
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Experience of Test driven Development
approaches
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Experience in Unix/Linux Operating
System
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Strong risk identification and
mitigation planning skills
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Motivated self-starter, with a high
capacity for rapid learning and meticulous attention to detail
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Experience with CICD automation tools
such as Jenkins
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ISTQB Certification is a plus
How to Apply
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