Quality Assurance Engineer at KCB Bank Kenya

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Development, customization, deployment, and maintenance of the reliable and scalable test automation frameworks for all systems and applications.
• Conducting code reviews and ensuring the developed softwares conform to approved standards, design patterns and best practices.
• Create BDD and contract tests, integration mock services, perform Unit Testing and API Testing and Integration Testing, and collaborate with developers to conduct end-to-end defect analysis and resolution of defects, and review test results for maximum test coverage.
• Execution of performance and security testing and ensure that solutions meet the minimum baseline standards and performance benchmarks. 
• Test strategy formulation which includes decomposing the business and technical requirements into test scenarios, defining test data requirements, managing test case creation, devising contingencies plans and other testing preparation activities.
• Formal reviews of test plans, designs, test scenarios, test cases, and requirements documents with cross-functional teams for both functional and non-functional testing.
• Execute and report on planned tests, report and manage defects, regress software fixes for new and existing products, assist development with replicating and debugging problems.
• Participate in CI/CD delivery models, create execution pipelines and integrate automated test scripts into CI/CD pipeline.
• Supporting solution deployments and in resolving low level systems issues and taking part in resolution of such issues.
• Participate in solution architecture and design discussions and make recommendations to have appropriate changes in design and architecture.
• Coach and mentor other QA Engineers in test automation best practices, frameworks and SDET discipline.
• Management and maintenance of Test Environments.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCES

• Experience with at least one automation frameworks such as Selenium and Katalon studio. 
• Proficient in creation of automated functional test scripts using scripting language e.g Java, python, JavaScript.
• Solid understanding of testing principles, testing types, and methodologies.
• Highly proficient at debugging issues – learn debug tools like – Chrome Web Debugger.
• Knowledge and experience in API testing using POSTMAN and Soap UI.
• Experience in White box testing tools and techniques – like Mocking frameworks (Mockito)
• Good Understanding of architecture principles and standards of applications and general client-server model.
• Good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming concepts and programming languages like Java, C#,.NET
• Good understanding DevOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery concepts (CI / CD) and experience in using CI tools like Jenkins/Bamboo and code versioning tools like Git. 
• Good understanding and experience in performance testing as well as writing simple scripts using open-source performance testing tools like JMeter.
• Knowledge of fundamental concepts of Security testing and knowledge of basic coding standards (like OWASP) which ensures that there is no security flaws left unaddressed software applications.
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies using the Sprint/Scrum methodology of agile.
• Knowledge of public cloud technology platforms like – Amazon AWS, Google GCP, or Microsoft Azure.
• Knowledge in Behaviour Driven Development and contract testing.

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Academic & Professional

• Education     Bachelor’s Degree    Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study    RQ
• Professional Qualifications    ISTQB / ISTQB Agile Tester Certification / Certified Test Engineer (CSTE) / Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) / Certified Associate in Software Testing (CAST) / CMSQ (Certified Manager of Software Quality)    RQ
• Project Management    PRINCE II (Practitioner) / AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM)    AA
• Masters Degree    Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field of study or Business Administration or Project Management    AA

Experience

Total Minimum No of Years’ Experience Required  5 years 

Detail    Minimum No of Years    Need Type[2]

• Software Quality Assurance     5    RQ
• Software Development    2    ES
• Software Test Automation    3    RQ
• Emerging Technologies (e.g. Mobile, Internet Banking, Cloud, Microservices etc)     2     ES
• IT Projects    4    ES
• Software Applications & Support     2    DE