Position Summary:
Old Mutual is a premium African financial services organisation that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key market segments in 17 countries. The lines of business include Life and Savings, Property and Casualty, Asset Management and Banking and Lending.
Old Mutual Finance was established in 2008 to provide unsecured lending products and services to the SA market. The business started with a staff compliment of 34 and has since grown to over 3000 staff with more than 300 branches nationally. Within our branches we offer insurance, transactional banking and lending products as well as servicing.
Key Responsibilities:
- Undertakes operational and technical aspects of processing information, data evaluation and analysis
- Builds and maintains relationships with relevant internal/external stakeholders.
- Understands the requirements and where applicable, liaise, communicates and provides assistance.
- Manages testing, including achievement of milestones and deliverables.
- Contributes knowledge and expertise where required for peer review.
- Work within an Agile environment
- Manages the testing component within agreed timetables.
- Monitors progress and provide regular project reports to Test Manager.
- Manages effective communication with all stakeholders.
- Perform initial analysis for technical issues and work closely with developers to reproduce and solve problems
- Provides quality control and improvement of processes and outputs.
- Perform regression testing when bugs are resolved
- Identifies impending risks that may compromise achievement of deliverables and initiates steps to mitigate risk.
- Contributes knowledge and expertise where required to projects being undertaken by other business units.
- Design test cases and perform testing of applications
- Identify, document and track bugs
- Understanding of UI and backend testing
- Provides strategic direction, undertakes test planning, scopes the testing required, estimates the effort and duration of testing, and determines resource and environment requirements
- Ensures SDLC Testing component is met.
Required Education & Experience:
- Relevant tertiary qualification advantageous
- ISTQB Foundation and Agile certification is advantageous.
- Object Orientated Programming knowledge advantageous.
- A Matric or Grade 12 equivalent and a minimum of 5 years experience in a similar role with a minimum of 2 years experience in
- Automation Testing.