Kenya Commercial Bank Limited is registered as a non-operating holding company which started operations as a licensed banking institution with effect from January 1, 2016. The holding company oversees KCB Kenya – incorporated with effect from January 1, 2016 – and all KCB’s regional units in Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia and South Sudan.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contributes towards strategy formulation which includes decomposing the business and technical requirements into test scenarios, defining test data requirements, managing test case creation and other testing preparation activities.
• Work with Quality Assurance Analysts in development and reviews of test plans, designs, and requirements documents with cross-functional teams.
• Perform effort estimates for projects QA activities and tasks and develop plans and schedules based on the estimates.
• Implement Test Automation leveraging test automation frameworks.
• Perform API Testing for systems integration and mock interfaces in collaboration with software engineers and solution architects
• Conduct Performance, load and stress testing on applications and interfaces to ensure that they meet the required benchmarks.
• Executes and reports on planned tests, report and manage defects, regress software fixes for new and existing products, assist development with replicating and debugging problems and develop new test automation solutions as needed.
• Design, implement and manage automated suites of black-box and white-box test scripts.
• Utilize tools such as code coverage tools to assess the coverage of test suites and make recommendations for additional test cases.
• Research, Develop and/or Recommend tools to assist QA Analysts in test planning, execution, and reporting.
• Management and maintenance of Test Environments.

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Academic & Professional

Education 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field of study    RQ

Professional Qualifications 

•  ISTQB / ISTQB Agile Tester Certification / Certified Test Engineer (CSTE) / Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) / Certified Associate in Software Testing (CAST) / CMSQ  (Certified Manager of Software Quality)    AA
• Project Management    PRINCE II (Practitioner) / AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM)    AA

Experience

Detail    Minimum No of Years    Need Type[5]

• Software Quality Assurance    3    RQ
• Software Development Experience    2 AA
• Software Test Automation    2    AA