Safaricom Quality Engineering Lead Jobs in Kenya

Safaricom Quality Engineering Lead Jobs in Kenya

Department Description

We are pleased to announce the vacancy of a Quality Engineering Lead within the Technology Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below.

Brief Description

Reporting to the Head, Digital Engineering, the position holder will be responsible for owning, leading, and driving quality engineering practices across all of Safaricom software engineering and digital experience delivery teams as well as providing expert knowledge of test strategy / frameworks and automation of end-to-end test design, execution, and validation, and deficiency identification and remediation, to enable target business capabilities / user journeys.

The role holder will also be required to create, lead, manage, and mentor a practice of software developers in Test across the delivery organization, ensuring the development and maintenance of highly skilled and motivated practice members

Responsibilities

Leadership

Design, build, and troubleshooting data storage, RAID, disk volume management, backup, and disaster recovery.

Regular team and one-on-one engagements

Build the skillset according to the fit for future program

Team performance management and building high performing SDET team

Facilitate and empowers teams in achieving high performances in Solution delivery, ensuring quality standards are achieved.

Functional Testing

E2E accountability for testing execution for SITs

E2E accountability for management UATs

E2E accountability for product readiness to go to production

Non-Functional Testing

E2E accountability for performance testing

E2E Accountability for GDR testing

Automated Testing

E2E accountability for testing automation as part of the DevOps strategy

Responsible for automated regression testing for all exposed APIs

Responsible for automated regression testing for all backend system APIs to be used for upgrades

Responsible for decreasing the testing time by 50% and increasing quality to have zero major bugs on production.

Systems accountability

Accountable for building and maintaining testing environments for all IT solutions

Accountable for setting up and maintaining quality engineering

platforms

Qualifications

Functional & Technical/ Skills:

Technical design assessment and evaluation, risk-based Quality Assurance in web-scale environments
Automated testing and tools e.g. Selenium

End-to-end solution test design, execution, and validation, managing testing scenarios across teams / capabilities if necessary
Unit, integration, system, smoke and user acceptance testing

Continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies and tools

Architectural element testing e.g. APIs

Performance and security testing

Code reviewing

Test analytics and trend analysis

Software incident and problem management

Expertise in multiple programming and markup languages, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Ruby, SQL, XML, JSON, YAML, and Python

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

Master’s or bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field

7 or more years of work experience in software quality assurance, testing, programming and /or systems analysis, program management

At least three years of software engineering or quality assurance leadership responsibilities in large delivery organizations

Extensive experience of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes, with experience writing and executing comprehensive test plans and cases

Extensive experience of automated testing tools and frameworks

Extensive experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD and BDD

Extensive experience working with multiple programming and scripting languages, such as JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, and Python

Professional experience and knowledge of the telecommunications industry preferred
ISTQB Certification preferred

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Safaricom Quality Engineering Lead Jobs in Kenya

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