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.
- For each sprint, define clear test objectives, scope, resource allocation, and schedules.
- Proactively identify and mitigate quality and testing risks at both project and sprint levels.
- Ensure seamless communication across development, business analysts, and testing.
- 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 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.
Job ID:
- J106983
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