Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

2 weeks ago


Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya KCB Bank Full time
Job Description

The Senior Quality Assurance Analyst will be performing quality reviews on business requirements, developing standardized testing methods and strategies, leading the execution of functional and non-functional tests and implementing quality testing and reporting processes to track and ensure adherence to quality software development processes and products.

The role reports to the Senior Manager, of IT Quality Assurance.

Key Responsibilities
  • Champion and coordinate business requirements reviews across functional teams and ensure that the business requirements are complete, precise, and testable.
  • Works with project team to define and create overall project test strategy/test plan, plan test schedules or strategies Identify test resources, estimate test effort by project scope or delivery dates and ensure that the test strategy is achieved.
  • Develop, document, and maintain manual and automated functional test cases, non-functional test cases, test scripts and other test artefacts like the test data, data validation, harness scripts and automated scripts.
  • Works collaboratively with the business units and project teams to execute and validate test cases based on business requirements and ensures that the test cases are traceable to the requirements.
  • In collaboration with GEA and other critical stakeholders, tune the SQA processes, adopt tools and define reusable templates in-line with the adoption and maturity of the SQA Framework.
  • Define the test process including required test activities and deliverables, conduct Test Readiness Assessment, establish test beds, and ensure that test beds are available for all planned white box and black box testing activities.
  • Engages, champions, and collaborates with technical teams/personnel in non-functional testing including integration, regression, load, performance, security, and usability testing.
  • Prepare, share, and review test results periodically, report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws and develop test acceptance reports for projects and software changes.
  • Works with business units to perform post-deployment sanity and regression tests and post-implementation reviews within a defined period to confirm that the deployed solution works as per the business requirements.
  • Participates in the formulation and Implementation of Software process improvement policies and strategies for the IT division.
The Person

For the Senior Quality Assurance Analyst position, the successful applicant should have the following:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study.
  • 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).
  • Project Management: PRINCE II (Practitioner) / AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
  • Master's in Business Administration or Project Management.
  • 5 years of progressive experience in Information Technology.
  • 5 years experience in Software Quality Assurance.
  • 4 years' experience in IT Projects.
  • 2 years experience in Emerging Technologies (e.g. Mobile, Internet Banking, Cloud, Microservices etc)
  • 2 years experience in Software Applications & Support.
  • 2 years' experience in Software Development.

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