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QA Manager

Ithemba Recruitment- Sourcing Top Talent650 open roles

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Johannesburg, GP, South Africa, Remote
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Your applicationOpen nowQA ManagerIthemba Recruitment- Sourcing Top Talent · Johannesburg, GP, South Africa, Remote

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Key purpose:

The Quality Assurance Manager will be responsible for executing the strategic direction during the development, deployment, maintenance and monitoring of Quality Assurance; technologies, processes, policies and program enhancements in accordance with best practice and international standards.

The QA Manager will also have impeccable communication skills backed by strategic thinking and a strong sense of ownership to assure that quality is sustained from the beginning to end of any engagement assigned.

Duties and responsibilities:

  • Assist in defining and drives the execution of the Quality Assurance Strategy.
  • Setup and define the Quality regulations for products, services, processes and people orientated solutions within the organisation.
  • Application of creative and analytical methods to design and enforce quality controls in order to maintain both the organisations and internationally aligned standards.
  • Enablement of cross-functional Quality Assurance teams across various SBV departments by the use of crowd sourcing
  • Driving a culture of zero-defect targets in the organisation's Eco-system
  • Commercial mindset, using finance management skills to drive the onboarding of new services and areas into the quality assurance team.
  • Conduct quarterly reviews of the test cases to assure relevance to process and industry standard
  • Continuously communicate with stakeholders to review the post deployment results of tests conducted
  • Review results and tweak test cases to better align
  • Automate mundane activities
  • Use of excellent reporting and verbal skills to regularly engage and cultivate relationships with all stakeholders
  • Managing and controlling budgets for the Quality Department.
  • Drive a collaborative approach with vendors and resolver groups to assure timeous feedback and delivery against promised outputs and SLAs
  • Set the quality standards, control frameworks and scope of the test
  • Define the technical test cases & output tolerances required to achieve the desired outcomes
  • Identifies and sets appropriate quality standards and parameters for products.
  • Apply the resourcing model & time estimates required to complete the end-to-end testing requirement
  • Ability to define the reporting content for the correct audience combined with the ability to scale the presentation of these reports to the appropriate audience
  • Functional (Black Box) testing: Deliver 100% front end Test scenario coverage and defect evaluation of solution/product within a defined timeframe.
  • Non-Functional (White Box) testing: Using knowledge of the inner workings of the solution to expand on test cases and test for known outcomes
  • Further apply this knowledge to also test for negative expected outcomes thus assuring complete end to end functionality of the product solution per its design
  • Deliver Security, availability, and performance testing management in accordance to the standards defined.
  • Policy and Standards review (Technology Policies): All Technology policies to be reviewed and annual reviews done.
  • Testing Automation: Deliver against plan for automated testing, regression testing and load testing where applicable.
  • Communicates quality standards and parameters to QA team, product development team, and other business partners
  • Preparation and execution of audits (Internal and external).
  • Updating, implementing, and improving Standard Operating Procedures relating to all quality assurance processes and reviewing company policies and procedures for compliance.
  • Perform annual Quality Management Reviews.
  • Carry out quality risk assessments and assist with compiling a risk management plan within the Quality team
  • Security Testing: Work with the Head of Information Security Officer (ISO) to establish a program that is including but not limited to Penetration Testing, Static Code reviews and Policy adherence controls
  • Establish, embed, and maintain Quality Assurance standards, including continuous improvement of working processes, effective use of organization-wide approaches to goal setting, personal development planning, and motivation for a high performing team
  • Manage team attendance, shift rotations, time planning & overtime through clear forecasting schedules
  • Engaging and influencing senior colleagues to make changes/improvements based on the reporting the team is responsible for producing
  • Passion for questioning data/analysis so that the team is not only delivering quality, actionable output but also developing their storytelling skills
  • Continuously exploring ways of improving the team's toolkit and output and a proactive mindset
  • Create an environment conducive to cross-functional skills transfer.
  • Creates a conducive environment which translates into productivity and high morale within the organisation delivering on key performance areas
  • Lead and manage the Talent Management Process within ones department
  • Lead and manage the end-to-end performance management process of employees
  • Adhere to legislative requirements, company policies and procedures in respect of employment Health and safety practices
  • Manage overtime / illegal overtime of ones department through proper planning and staff rotation inclusive of driving the time and attendance system within ones department
  • Draft and execute training plans in conjunction with the Training Academy
  • Create and implement strategies in collaboration with Change Management & HR to evaluate and maintain employee satisfaction
  • Drive Transformation and BBB-EE initiatives to ensure sustainable alignment to the company scorecard
  • Act as a change management architect in periods of change to ensure continuity
  • Facilitate the necessary presentations, workshops or forums to ensure consistent and accurate communication is given across ones department

Qualifications and experience:

  • 5 Years experience in a Quality Assurance Management Role.
  • 2 Years experience delivering Quality Assurance automation programmes.
  • 2 Years experience working in an Agile run project environment.
  • Proven track record of successful error free deployments.
  • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • Technical certification in Testing accreditations preferable (Example: ISO)
  • Project Management certification (advantageous)
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