Quality Engineering Governance Lead at Safaricom Kenya

Brief Description

Reporting to the Quality Engineering Lead, the position holder will build, mentor & coach a team of highly specialized test automation and performance engineers that will work as a community of experts (CoE) to incorporate emerging trends and best practices to the quality engineering chapter leads and SDETs in the tribes/squads. Accountable for implementation and management of fully functional test environments on cloud or on-premises for all IT systems ensuring stability of the test environments. Responsible for the administration, upgrade, and maintenance of test management tools (ALM/Octane/JIRA/SonarQube/LoadRunner /JMeter etc.) ensuring proper functioning and use.

Responsibilities

The role holder will be responsible for;

• Measuring UAT/OAT Environment Stability and Uptime
• 99.9% Test Environment Availability for All Test Teams
• Test Data Configurations and Custody
• Documentation And Proper Use of Test Inventory.
• Creating And Implementing a Maturity Model to Measure the Test Process
• Measuring Quality on The Tribe and Squad Level
• Defining And Documenting Quality Measurement Metrics
• Measuring adoption and conformance to test automation framework.
• Measure the overall test automation rate for all agile squads & Tribes.
• Train and upskill SDETs in squads on emerging trends & best practices in test automation and drive adoption.
• Responsible for introduction and adoption of test-driven development to agile teams
• Responsible for creating, documenting, and maintaining the performance testing strategy.
• Accountable for all Quality management systems and tools such as the quality centers (ALM/Octane), HP LoadRunner, JMeter, device farms, test data portal, selenium grid etc.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Development or related subject
• 5 years + experience in quality assurance/quality engineering/software development with at least 2 years being in test automation space.
• Experience in at least 2 of the mainstream programming languages e.g., java, python, Kotlin, JavaScript etc.
• Experience in performance testing with tools such as JMeter/HP loadrunner/Locust.io
• Experience with on cloud or on-premises mobile device farms such as aws device farm, Kobiton or browser stack is desirable but not required.
• Strong understanding of maturity models in quality assurance or software development (CMM is preferred)
• Experience with analysis and report generation and presentation
• ISTQB Certification is a must.