Lead QA Engineer-1

### **Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.** With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group. **Job Summary** The Digital QA Engineering Operations team within PPB Digital Tech is looking for a seasoned Lead QA Engineer to Create \& independently drive automation testing frameworks \& plans as well as lead the development \& delivery of test scripts for multiple technical products / services (across tribes) e.g. web, mobile, SOA applications, etc. QA includes front – end, back – end, integration, performance, scalability and regression testing of various enterprise wide solutions. This entails full responsibility for ensuring that multiple / complex products across an estate are protected through quantifiable test coverage \& metrics.**Job Description** QA Engineering * Proactively contribute \& participate in the full solution development lifecycle as a member of a squad / multiple squads as the automation testing expert * Participate and analyze requirements during the requirements analysis phase of technical product \& service development, maintenance \& optimization (across tribes \& squads) * Identify opportunities for automation across the business area’s suite of technical products \& services (ongoing) * Leverage a solid understanding of the technical solution architecture and infrastructure context to create relevant \& holistic automation testing frameworks based on the analysis \& opportunities identified * Develop and execute automated test scripts using various technologies * Be the single point of accountability for testing \& testing frameworks, the integrity of their design \& their ability to holistically test solutions * Provide testing at various levels including: vetting unit tests (for developers), testing user stories, black box testing, scalability and end to end integration testing * Align testing frameworks and scripts to User Stories * Apply predictive and critical thinking in defining testing parameters (positive \& negative) * Execute automated test suites and Analyze test results. * Develop custom Quality Assurance Metrics and reporting solutions. * Leverage solid understanding of CI/CD pipeline to configure test scripts \& associated frameworks \& integrate test suites into the test management system and custom test harnesses. * Create, coordinate, and execute manual application test cases and test plans * Review functional specs and user stories to design test cases/scripts and test plans. * Create and analyze test data. * Collaboratively work with developers to implement test hooks for automation. * Operate as a self\-starter and possess the technical aptitude in troubleshooting both software and environment issues. * Set product delivery goals and achieve...