Test Manager

Key Purpose:

• Accountable for the test process implementation

• Responsible for identifying test requirements.

• Project manage the User Acceptance Testing phase for each implementation.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the testing process and test methodologies.

• Manage activities during testing and ensure resolution of all defects

Responsibilities:

• Develop and contribute to the overall testing strategy

• Participate in JAD sessions to extract requirements needed to compile test plans.

• Understand the Product and Business specifications and extract test requirements.

• Review test requirements with the test manager and business analyst.

• Design test cases and test scenarios based on analysis of business specifications.

• Provide estimates for completing test cases and execution.

• Build and maintain a repository of regression test cases.

• Work closely with the test manager and systems analysts to co-ordinate test activities and ensure quality end results are achieved.

• Data capturing of the test cases used for manual testing.

• Perform functional, negative, positive and regression testing.

• Logging, tracking and resolution of defects on JIRA.

• Participate in reviewing team members’ work.

• Educate and coach junior team members.

• Resolve production queries with little or no support and provide junior team members with

appropriate guidance in resolving the queries.

• Potentially manage a team of testers.

• Develop load, performance and stress testing plans

Education and Experience

Essential:

• Grade 12 with mathematics, higher grade (minimum C symbol)

• English, higher grade (minimum D symbol) – Must be first language

• Relevant testing qualification

• Minimum 4 years’ experience working as a Test Analyst in the business user testing environment, applied knowledge and solid application of the correct testing methodologies required to perform end-to-end user acceptance testing

• Experience with regression, usability, sanity and functional testing methods

• Basic Excel

• Comfortable with figures and basic mathematical concepts

• Experience with automated testing