Overview

QA Competency Lead Jobs in Johannesburg, South Africa at Sanlam

Who are we?

Glacier by Sanlam brings together leading experts and respected financial services companies to meet clients’ investment needs. We deliver focused investment services through specialist teams, partner with acclaimed financial intermediaries and pride ourselves on our superior products and solutions and high quality service. We offer a comprehensive range of investment solutions, designed to assist in the creation and preservation of wealth.

Our offering encompasses local investments, including fixed term investments and investments with guarantees, international investments, retirement saving solutions, and retirement income solutions. While each solution has its own distinct purpose, they all share the world-class quality and commitment that have come to distinguish Glacier.

What will you do?

The QA Competency Lead is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining Glacier’s test automation framework and to provide support to all IT Development teams. The QA Competency Lead will provide for enough automation coverage that will guarantee comprehensive regression testing and quality.

Key Outcomes
The following outcomes will be expected to be achieved by the QA Competency Lead:

  • Create and run automation scripts
  • Collaborate the Lead testers / Test analysts / Devs / Architects to ensure sufficient automated regression testing coverage
  • Investigate defects and log defects (where required)
  • Responsible for distributing Automation reports on a regular basis
  • Keeping libraries and services up to date
  • Mapping of controls and adding it to application code
  • Support IT Development teams to deliver on their sprint testing goals
  • Joint responsibility with Test analysts of maintaining automation datasheets
  • Serve as the test automation subject matter expert
  • Optimize automation scripts to ensure maintainable code
  • Ensure stability of the automation framework and environment
  • Recommend and initiate enhancements to the current automation framework to ensure relevance
  • Provide input to the automation strategy to ensure increasing value-add within the functional testing process
  • Mentor and guide junior automation engineers

    • Qualifications and experience

  • Relevant IT qualification
  • 4+ years experience in automation scripting and automation tools
  • 5+ years Functional testing experience
  • Knowledge and experience in Selenium, Spec Flow, Visual Studio, Appium, Desktop Automation
  • Experience in Back-end development, using C# and Java Script
  • Building Automation Frameworks . BDD, Azure Dev Ops  CI/CD, API Testing, WCF services etc
  • Experience in Front-end development, using HTML5, WPF or any other popular JavaScript libraries
  • Knowledge and experience of the following processes and methodologies: SDLC and Testing Life Cycle Scrum Methodology
  • Prior experience in the financial services industry would be preferred

    • Competencies

  • Client focus
  • Cultivates innovation
  • Collaborates
  • Being resilient
  • Drive results
  • Problem solving and analysis skills
  • Ability to perform well under pressure
  • Planning and organising
  • Decision-making ability
  • Attention to detail
  • Communication skills (written & verbal)

    • Attributes

  • Honesty, integrity and respect
  • Positive, enthusiastic attitude
  • Professional work standards
  • Ability to motivate self and others

    • What will make you successful in this role?

    Qualification and Experience

    Degree or Diploma with 4 to 5 years related experience.

    Degree or Diploma with 4 to 5 years related experience.

    Knowledge and Skills

    Change control

    Regression testing and scripts

    Business Requirements System testing, analysis and reviews

    Reporting and administration

    Personal Attributes

    Organisational savvy
    – Contributing through others

    Manages complexity
    – Contributing through others

    Plans and aligns
    – Contributing through others

    Optimises work processes
    – Contributing through others

    Build a successful career with us

    We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

    Core Competencies

    Cultivates innovation
    – Contributing through others

    Customer focus
    – Contributing through others

    Drives results
    – Contributing through others Collaborates
    – Contributing through others

    Being resilient
    – Contributing through others

    Turnaround time

    The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.

    Title: QA Competency Lead

    Company: Sanlam

    Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

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