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Lead Quality Assurance Engineer: Banking: SAP ERP and SAP Hana: 1 year FTC

To Lead the Test Implementation in accordance with the agreed Quality Assurance principles and standards to manage the Product risk and inter-dependencies during the Product Lifecycle. Ensure alignment across Business Analysis, Development, Quality Assurance and Environment to optimize the testing efficiencies across the Product delivery stack. Ensure team effectiveness and healthy team dynamics. Good working knowledge of Front End and API automation as well as Performance Testing (NFT). Tools include Selenium/Appium/Helenium, RestAssured and JMeter. Use the automation framework and pre-defined test tools to inspect, analyze, design, develop and implement re-useable automated test assets to quality assure the solution and its architecture to ensure the overall quality of the solution. Experience in testing SAP ERP and SAP Hana

To Lead Quality Engineering in squads in accordance with the agreed Test Engineering & Quality practices. Ensure alignment across stakeholders to optimize the testing efficiencies across the Product delivery stack. Ensure team effectiveness and healthy team dynamics.

• Liaise with Stakeholders across Group Technology to build a network that will align.
• Ensure stable solutions to stakeholders by delivering automated testing solutions and quality practices within agreed timelines and within agreed risk parameters.
• Provide advice to clients on quality practices.
• Build and foster deep relationship with Peers, Subject Matter Experts, Developers, Product Owner, and other Stakeholders though honest communication which align to the client's Values.
• Build a deep understanding of the domain to contribute to the ongoing value proposition.
• Work closely with Quality Assurance Leads, Practice Leads, Developers, Architects, Product Owner, and other Stakeholders to meet the expectations of our clients.
• Participate in the overall PI planning and the squad deliverables including capacity estimation and interdependencies.
• Obtain and review relevant artefacts from stakeholders (eg: technical landscape, architecture design, technology roadmaps)
• Create the Test Strategy, approach or plan and ensure alignment to the squad objectives.
• Contribute to the systematic breakdown of the business needs into manageable feature(s), stories and epics that can be delivered.
• Ensure all committed user stories and acceptance criteria are tested for the specific release ensuring quality is not compromised. Participate in the backlog grooming and in the sprint planning.
• Participate in the daily stand-up where necessary, manage the issues raised by the Software Quality & Test Engineers and raise relevant associated risks.
• Encourage the Software Quality & Test Engineers to collaborate across squads to ensure efficient implementation of deliverables and ensure automation governance is adhered to by all.
• Perform pull requests and ensure all feature branches are committed to Master.
• Review that the test automation solution meets the architectural and development standards that are re-usable and scalable.
• Challenging the business and technology solutions in alignment with client value proposition.
• Ensure integration into and continuous test automation execution on DevOps pipelines.
• Work with the Enterprise Quality Assurance Practice Lead on the metrics and reporting to communicate quality engineering practices.
• Ensure the defect management process is adhered to by the Software Quality & Test Engineers.
• Ensure artefacts are easy obtainable by storing all relevant artefacts in the repository.
• Participate in the retrospective reviews and seek efficiencies which will ensure quicker delivery with high quality to our client(s).
• Encourage Peer reviews of the QA artefacts.
• Understand and manage own demand based on expected timelines articulated by the line-management and project expectations.
• Collaborate with Peers and industry experts to understand technical advances and its application within the client's eco-system.
• Seek ongoing improvements in technical capabilities.
• Ensure alignment of solution with emerging technologies and impact on the client's technologies
• Mentor the Engineers within the team to improve their technical capabilities.
• Provide input into the documentation of standards & quality practices for Quality engineering for the organization's current and future technological architecture.
• Provide input into performance management of team members (e.g. performance contracts, development plans, poor performance and improvement plans, and review).
• Ensure the team dynamics are healthy (coaching and mentoring, assist with decision making, encourage self-organization and assist with prioritization). Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives, and values.
• Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations. Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models, and systems though agile thinking.

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