The new NCBA has harnessed the power of both NIC and CBA to create a bank that brings together the best of both worlds from cutting edge mobile banking to good old-fashioned relationship management; from scalable business banking to financial services that grow as your business does; from best-in-class choice of products to investment solutions tailored to your specific needs.
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This is a technical role that is responsible for the testing, evaluating and approving of quality, functional and non-functional, requirements for new and existing software.
The role holder will be responsible for developing and executing exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality. The position requires proven working experience in Testing Development and hand-on Software Development Lifecycle and Software Testing Lifecycle experience.
This is a role that requires excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to work as part of an agile team, to manage competing priorities and ensure that quality is driven into the heart of the development process from requirements definition through to delivery.
Ideal Job Specifications
A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field. A Master’s degree in Technology or Business-related course is an added advantage
Minimum 3 years’ experience in IT systems development within a large highly digitized organization designing, implementing and managing mission critical systems, with at least 2 of those years within software testing
Experience in writing, executing and monitoring automated test suites using a variety of technologies such as Cucumber, Concordion, Selenium, Appium, Robotium, SoapUI, Jmeter
Certification and experience implementing best practice frameworks e.g. ITIL, PRINCE2
Hands on experience in software development with major languages Java, Kotlin, C++, C# and practical experience using relation RDBMS e.g. Oracle and MS SQL etc.
Strong understanding of SOA lifecycle, Integration patterns and standard methodologies.
Knowledge of Linux/Unix commands and SQL will be required.
Deep understanding of industry standard formats and protocols (JMS, SOAP, XML/XPath/XQuery, REST and JSON)
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
A good knowledge of the systems and processes within Financial Services industry
Issue/bug tracking tools e.g. JIRA
Use of continuous integration tools e.g. Gitlab CI/Jenkins