Manual Test Lead/qa Lead - Sandton, South Africa - Blue Label Telecoms

Blue Label Telecoms

Verified Company

Sandton, South Africa

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

About The Company

At Blue Label Distribution, our brand philosophy is that we can create and distribute anything that is able to be digitized.

Our Blu-approved brand is the face of our service offering and is underpinned by world-class technology. platform for both online and offline commerce. With a point-of-sale network of approximately devices, we provide a distribution footprint across all income groups. 85% of our income comes from merchants in the informal sector.

Job Purpose

Responsible for acting as the technical lead for the Quality Assurance team ensuring that the testing of Blue Label Technology supporting software products produced meet both functional and non-functional requirements.

Provides guidance to the team on a combination of manual and automated tests, including the analysis, documentation and reporting of issues found during testing to ensure the delivery of quality service for internal and external clients.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Test Planning and Management

Provide high level estimates, against highlevel requirements, for work items as they progress through a demand management system
Provide detailed test estimates for upcoming tasks as input into sprint or project planning
Review and refine highlevel business requirements and transform these requirements into test artifacts
Assist and guide team in creating, documenting and implementing test plans, test cases and test strategies
Collaborate with internal teams, clients and vendors to identify, troubleshoot, investigate and resolve issues and improve product features, documenting any changes and resolutions as may be required
Establish test automation guidelines and tools to promote test delivery efficiencies

Test Planning and Management

Create and maintain technical documentation, define technical documentation templates and prescribed policies and procedures
Ensure that the requisite technical supporting documentation, in line with the established Blue Label Technology development standards and internal policies is created and adhered to at all times
Build and maintain a test environment that is representative of production
Fix Verification/

Impact Analysis:
Developing or recommending solutions to fix any problems discovered during testing

Reproduce issues and verify no further regressions are caused by the fix
Breakdown, prioritize and execute tasks to achieve product deliverables per sprint
Provide estimates for initial highlevel requirements and more detailed estimates for upcoming tasks as input into sprint planning
Ensure that the testing conducted is in line with the output and success requirements of the applicable sprint
Report test results and conduct defect trend analysis

Test Planning and Management

Verify that Blue Label Technology and delivers software solutions that are of appropriate quality and delivered in line with any applicable contractual obligations
Conduct and manage handover processes from QA to Operations for accurate implementations within the production environment

Self-Management

Set an example through personal quality and productivity standards and ways of working with others
Plan and prioritise, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands
Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change
Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organisational and team needs

Team Support and Direction

Through effective inspirational leadership, facilitate the creation of accountable, full service teams who understand and strive to meet the needs of all stakeholders
Role model behavior and motivate team members in line with the core values
Provide support and guidance on onthejob training, coaching and mentoring to team
Develop, promote and direct the implementation of equal opportunities policies in all aspects of the company's work
Communicate and maintain trust relationships with shareholders, business partners and authorities

Behavioural Competencies