Quality Assurance Lead

SUMMARY:
Unwrap the Gift of Quality Assurance Leadership this Festive Season! 🎁🎄 Elevate your career to new heights as we embark on a journey of excellence together. 🚀 If you're a seasoned Quality Assurance professional with a passion for leading teams to success, we have a special spot for you in our holiday tech wonderland! 🌈🔍 Join us in spreading quality cheer and making a lasting impact in the world of innovation. 🌐✨ Apply now to be the guiding star in our QA constellation! 🌟🔧

POSITION INFO:
RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Establish and improve formal QA processes, ensuring the team follows widely accepted industry best practices.
• Promote and implement practices for automated testing.
• Supervise all aspects of quality assurance, including setting standards, applying industry best practices, and creating new tools and processes to meet quality goals.
• Act as the primary contact for all QA aspects of releases, offering QA services and coordinating both internal and external QA resources.
• Lead and guide QA team members, while also managing external contract testers.
• Create and execute test cases, scripts, plans, and procedures, both manually and through automation.
• Ensure QA practices align with agile methods and processes.
• Choose testing tools and assets.
• Enhance testing efficiency for features and identify key areas for test automation.
• Be part of a squad and allocate a portion of capacity to contribute to delivery within the squad.

• Preferred degree in BSC/IT or Diploma in Information Technology.
• Minimum of 6 years’ testing experience with at least 12 months in test automation.
• Preferably, at least 2 years of financial services experience.
• Exposure to diverse IT projects using various testing tools and techniques.
• Preferred qualifications: Testing qualification ISTQB/ISEB.
• Experience in an agile work environment.
• Experience working with REST APIs.

• Business Acumen: Understand the business, channel, and user experience strategy, providing design direction to best meet customer and business goals.
• Customer/Stakeholder Commitment: Anticipate, meet, and exceed customer and stakeholders' expectations, influencing customer service through design.
• Lead Change and Innovation: Challenge the status quo, prioritize what is right for the business and the customer, and encourage continuous improvement and innovation.
• Team Player: Create and maintain an open, positive working environment.
• Passion for Learning and Mentoring.
• Familiarity with CI/CD processes.