• Application Deadline: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT
• Position: Team Lead, Information Technology Quality Assurance and Governance


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 5 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field ICT / Computer 
  

Job Summary

• In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing the quality assurance process for our software development projects.


• You will work closely with developers, project managers, and other stakeholders to ensure that the software meets the required standards and specifications.


• You will also ensure necessary IT governance policies are in place and its processes are implemented.

Job Responsibilities

• Oversee all quality testing, maintenance, and deliverables associated with the organization’s information technology initiative.


• Oversee the quality assurance process for software development projects.


• Manage continuous quality improvement to ensure the delivery of the best possible IT products and services.


• Ensure that processes and practices are aligned across teams and providers to operate effectively and efficiently.


• Tests continuity management plans and procedures to ensure they address exposure to risk and that agreed levels of continuity can be maintained.


• Validate systems, products or services against user experience goals, metrics and targets.


• Collaborate with developers, project managers, product managers, and other stakeholders to ensure that the software/product quality meets requirements and specifications.


• Develop and drive implementation and standardization of QA processes.


• Review and approve QA plans and test cases.


• Identify and track quality assurance metrics, such as defects and test coverage.


• Coordinate and manage QA team members, including assigning tasks and reviewing their work.


• Lead the definition of policies, processes, strategies, standards, and guidelines using best practice frameworks, whilst reviewing current approaches and suggesting improvements.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.


• 5+ years of experience as a QA engineer.


• Possess expert knowledge and experience with information technology testing applications.


• Practical experience analyzing data and translating the outcome to actions.


• Previous experience leading and managing a QA team.


• Strong understanding of software development processes and testing methodologies.

Experience:

• Leading complex, multi-disciplinary quality assurance technical projects using engineering expertise


• Ability to train, mentor, and coach large scale organization on technology best practices


• Performing deep dive technical solution analysis and design aligning to the overall quality assurance engineering strategy


• Collaborate with other functional teams on aspects of the feature or sub-system


• Develop and refine test cases for new products/features to ensure adequate test coverage


• Review existing tool sets and assist in proposing a framework for a world-class QA team that focuses primarily on developing automated testing tools.


• Experience in all QA cycle, such test plan creation, test case creation and execution and reporting are a must.


• Understanding of software testing lifecycles, in either agile or Waterfall environments.


• Thorough and detailed understanding of all phases the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including Agile and Waterfall is required.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Competencies:

• Strong knowledge and understanding of automated testing.


• Knowledge of Load and Performance testing tools: (JMeter, Cypress, Soasta cloud test)


• Strong application and usage of API testing tools: (Post man, swagger, soapui, Apiary)


• Strong application and usage of Unit testing tools: (Junit,NUnit, PHPUnit, SonarQube, Code coverage).


• Strong application and usage of Test Management tools: (Mantis bug tracker, TestCollab, IBM Rational Quality manager, Jira).


• Strong application and usage of Functional testing tools: (Selenium, Cucumber).


• Strong application and usage of Multi-device testing tools: (DeviceAnywhere, Amazon device farm, Device emulators).

Person Specification:

• Have strong communication and interpersonal skills.


• Have excellent leadership and managerial abilities.


• Possess keen analytical and problem solving skills.


• Show critical thinking with great attention to details.


• Have excellent time management skills.