QA Manager

Your Accountabilities

1. Coordinates teams in ensuring delivery of product quality strategies, overseeing test strategies for business-critical initiatives and
   developments
2. Oversees some aspects of software and system quality following a predictable and repeatable engineering process
3. Leads the identification of quality risks based on high level solution architecture and ensures product quality and governance
4. Oversees the team's testing efforts to help ensure high-quality outcomes are delivered in an efficient manner
5. Leads automated testing to increase test coverage and reduce the amount of manual regression testing performed.
6. Leverage service virtualisation, using simulated services instead of actual production services to test systems while still in the pipeline, wherever a 3rd party service is unavailable but
   required for testing
7. Implements new testing methodologies and tools to support agile development life cycles
8. Coordinates the design and development of test automation solutions that validate the functionality of applications
9. Builds and maintains an open collaboration culture with continuous feedback loops for development, product, UX and product leadership, internalising and integrating feedback into QA practices as needed
10. Set, track and evaluate performance metrics and KPIs for the quality assurance engineering team, defining appropriate actions based on progress against the objectives set
11. Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in QA engineering best practices and industry standards
12. Coaches talent, and manages others, to develop capabilities and ensure performance through upskilling, development and recruitment
13. Implement ways to improve working processes within the area of software engineering responsibility

The skills you will need to succeed

• Test management
• Test automation frameworks
• User acceptance testing
• Test strategy creation and execution
• Regression testing
• Integration testing
• Performance testing
• Scalability testing
• Resilience testing
• Functional/non-functional testing

Experience you would be expected to have

• Experienced QA engineer (5 years +)
• Experienced QA manager (2 years +)
• Experience in security applications particularly SIEM
• Preferred experience in Elastic based systems QA