Talent.com
This job offer is not available in your country.
Test Team Lead

Test Team Lead

ParvanaJohannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
30+ days ago
Job description

About our client :

Our client offers financial service solutions helping their clients achieve their dreams. With an emphasis on culture fit, they boast a dedicated team of over 600 employees, many with over a decade of tenure. They have built their culture on a feeling of togetherness, trust, and respect, and are always looking to support employees' continuous learning. Using Agile, they provide diverse services with a focus on research, innovation, and improvement.

What you will be doing :

  • Oversee test engineers, ensure alignment with Agile principles, and optimize sprint efficiency.
  • Create and maintain an Agile test strategy, covering automation, manual, performance, and security testing.
  • Define clear test objectives, scope, resource allocation, and schedules for each sprint.
  • Proactively identify and mitigate quality and testing risks at both project and sprint levels.
  • Ensure seamless communication across development, business analysts, and testing teams.
  • Collaborate with DevOps and developers to embed testing into CI / CD pipelines.
  • Verify comprehensive test case coverage for all requirements (functional, non-functional, edge cases) and act as a liaison for bug resolution.
  • Track testing progress within sprints, execute test cases, manage defects, and provide metrics and status reports.
  • Advocate for and implement test automation, promote practices like BDD / TDD, and ensure the team uses optimal and current test tools.
  • Provide feedback on code quality, ensure the team adapts quickly to changing Agile requirements, and continuously improve testing effectiveness through metrics.

What our client is looking for :

  • A relevant tertiary qualification would be beneficial, but not essential.
  • 5+ years of technology-specific development experience.
  • A strong understanding of the Life Insurance sector.
  • Proficient in regression, performance, and security testing (including Postman for authentication, Pilotfish, and Hyphen), with the ability to create comprehensive test plans, test cases, and regression scripts.
  • Strong in Postman for API testing, JIRA for bug and project tracking, and capable of writing SQL queries with foundational code-based testing skills.
  • Experienced with test management tools, familiar with Scribe and Gherkin syntax, and committed to continuous learning and adopting new testing techniques.
  • Able to lead, mentor, and support test analysts, ensuring effective workload management and deadline adherence.

    • #J-18808-Ljbffr

    Create a job alert for this search

    Team Lead • Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa