Quality Assurance Engineer – KCB Bank 38 views

Position: Quality Assurance Engineer

 Quality Assurance Engineer Purpose

The Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for implementing automated test strategies and frameworks, in addition to creating, implementing, and automating testing in support of software test requirements. The Software Quality Engineer works with QA Analysts to develop, maintain, and enhance the test automation framework and automation infrastructure and to design, implement and execute non-functional tests. The Software Quality Assurance Engineer demonstrates strong technical and programming/test automation skill set. This role reports to Senior Manager, IT Quality Assurance Engineering & Automation.

Key Responsibilities for Quality Assurance Engineer

• Contributes towards strategy formulation which includes decomposing the business and technical requirements into test scenarios, defining test data requirements, managing test case creation and other testing preparation activities.
• Work with Quality Assurance Analysts in development and reviews of test plans, designs, and requirements documents with cross-functional teams.
• Perform effort estimates for projects QA activities and tasks and develop plans and schedules based on the estimates.
• Implement Test Automation leveraging test automation frameworks.
• Perform API Testing for systems integration and mock interfaces in collaboration with software engineers and solution architects
• Conduct Performance, load and stress testing on applications and interfaces to ensure that they meet the required benchmarks.
• Executes and reports on planned tests, report and manage defects, regress software fixes for new and existing products, assist development with replicating and debugging problems and develop new test automation solutions as needed.
• Design, implement and manage automated suites of black-box and white-box test scripts.
• Utilize tools such as code coverage tools to assess the coverage of test suites and make recommendations for additional test cases.
• Research, Develop and/or Recommend tools to assist QA Analysts in test planning, execution, and reporting.
• Management and maintenance of Test Environments.

The Person

For the above position, the preferred candidate will meet the below criteria:

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field of study. A Master’s degree is an added advantage.
• Professional certification in the below is added advantage;

• 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)
• PRINCE II (Practitioner) / Agile PM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

• At least 3 years’ work experience in Software Quality Assurance.
• At least 2 years’ work experience in Software Development and Software Test Automation is added advantage.

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.

To be considered your application must be received by Monday 3^rd June 2024

Qualified candidates with disability are encouraged to apply.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.