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 complement 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:
- Enhance automation test frameworks.
- Undertakes operational and technical aspects of processing information, data evaluation and analysis.
- Identifies any tools needed in order to meet testing deliverables.
- Manages effective communication with all stakeholders.
- Keep all stakeholders updated on the outcome of test execution results.
- Perform regression testing when needed.
- Provides strategic direction, undertakes test planning, scopes the testing required, estimates the effort and duration of testing, and determines resource and environment requirements.
- Manages the testing component within agreed timetables.
- Manages testing, including the achievement of milestones and deliverables.
- Understanding of UI and backend testing.
- Perform re-testing when bugs are resolved.
- Lead a Test Team, including coaching and mentoring in an Agile Environment.
- Perform initial analysis for technical issues and work closely with developers to reproduce and solve problems.
- Identifies impending risks that may compromise the achievement of deliverables and initiates steps to mitigate risk.
- Identify, document and track bugs.
- Provides quality control and improvement of processes and outputs.
- Leads test team, including coaching and mentoring.
- Design test cases and perform testing of applications.
- Create automation testing scripts using in-house developed tools.
- Ensures SDLC Testing component is met.
Required Education & Experience:
- Object Orientated Programming knowledge is advantageous.
- A Matric or Grade 12 equivalent and a minimum of 5 years experience in a similar role and must have built an automation test framework before.
- Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT): Information Technology, High School (Grade 12) (Required)
- A relevant tertiary qualification is advantageous.
- ISTQB Foundation and Agile certification are advantageous.