Takealot.com, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented QA Manager to join our team.
We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.
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The position reports to the QA Director
Your mission should you choose to accept it:
- Lead a team of QA Analysts
- Contribute to the Community of Practice for QA in engineering
- Drive recruitment for the QA team
- Raise development quality by developing processes and best practices for testing in dev teams, in collaboration with the developers and managers
- Collaborate with the engineering management team to effectively build and manage a shared roadmap for the automation (automation is owned and managed from the engineering space)
- Contribute to the improvement and refinement of the automation strategy
- Contribute the to the automation coverage for both UI and Service based tests through the QA Analysts
- Ensure that the team continues to develop and execute test cases to diagnose issues and bugs that is aligned to the team strategy and best practice for maintainability and reuse
- Ensure that the team creates and manages test data data in a sustainable and reusable manner
- Identify testing deficiencies and subsequently drive resolution and priority through collaboration with the automation engineers, engineers and QA Analysts
- Ensure that the team continues to Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs according to the team strategy and best practice
- Ensure that the team continues to perform regression testing when bugs are resolved
- Ensure that issues from production is fed back into the test base by reviewing the coverage and updating the test cases where required to constantly ensure adequate coverage
- Increase code coverage across the team’s technology stack through careful test identification on unit, service, functional level
- Develop status reports based on test completion/findings and communicate these to team leaders including any impact on the overall project plan
- Implement and drive initiatives to increase visibility of QA progress on projects and build relationships with product stakeholders to ensure that QA is informed well in advance of projects coming their way
- Mentoring and guiding the test team and developers on test approaches and automation suites
Skills needed:
- Strong relationship builder
- Is a team player, active listener, mentor and able to communicate well
- Shows solid reasoning and decision-making with the ability to work under pressure
- Is passionate about technology, systems and quality
- Is curious, always learning and keeping up to date with the craft of testing
- Self-motivated with strong capability of fast learning
- Ability to work efficiently both independently and within the team
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to understand and critique requirements
- Strong communication skills
Qualifications and experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering and a minimum of 5 years of Software QA experience in a software/technology environment is required, 2 years of which should be in a QA management role.
- In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma (in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 8 years of Software QA management experience in a software/technology environment, 2 years of which should be in a QA management role.
- Experience managing testing throughout the SDLC (development testing, unit testing, API testing, performance testing, system testing etc.)
- Experience with Jenkins or other Continuous Integration applications will be an advantage
- Understanding of configuration management and version control
- Demonstrable strong experience of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
- Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
- Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
- Strong knowledge of SQL and scripting
- Experience testing and administering in Linux and other Unix environments
- Experience with unit test frameworks
- Experience with performance and/or security testing will be an advantage
- Experience with selenium, appium
- Experience with Robot Framework will be an advantage
- Flexibility to learn new technologies and explore new tools
- Understanding of configuration management and version control
- Experience in installing, upgrading, configuring and verifying (smoke tests) virtualized testing environments (VMs)
Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!
- Scale: Over 2.5 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.
- Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time.
- Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, Superbalist.com and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.
The Environment:
- takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
- We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
- We are short on ego and high on output.
- We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all.
- We love what we do and what we are creating.
Let’s talk about life @ Takealot Group
- The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package that allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.
- No doors: We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab and make something great.
- Remote working: Love water cooler chats and working from home? Takealot.com offers a remote working model with the option to come into the office. The choice is yours to be at the office, fully remote or a mix.
- Mentorship programme: We aren’t kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Now’s your chance to be one of the best, by learning from the best.
- Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Up-skill with free access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera and more.
- Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds at takealot.com during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).
- Staff discount: Millions of products across 28 departments. What more could you ask for?
- Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it.
- Right tools, right job: Mac or Windows, two monitors or one. Whatever your preference, you’ll work on the latest tech, off the latest tech.
- Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support, and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere.
- Tech stack (for days): ReactJS, Python, Scala, Kotlin, Swift, Google Cloud, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, and all things machine learning. If you build it, they will come.
- Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to).
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Last updated on Aug 21, 2024