16 Feb 2024

Quality Assurance Engineer at KCB Bank Kenya

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Job Description

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

  • Development, customization, deployment, and maintenance of the reliable and scalable test automation frameworks for all systems and applications.
  • Conducting code reviews and ensuring the developed softwares conform to approved standards, design patterns and best practices.
  • Create unit tests and Integration mock services, perform Unit Testing and API Testing and Integration Testing, and collaborate with developers to conduct end-to-end defect analysis and resolution of defects, and in reviewing test results for maximum test coverage.
  • Execution of performance and security testing and ensure that solutions meet the minimum baseline standards and performance benchmarks.
  • Test strategy formulation which includes decomposing the business and technical requirements into test scenarios, defining test data requirements, managing test case creation, devising contingencies plans and other testing preparation activities.
  • Formal reviews of test plans, designs, test scenarios, test cases, and requirements documents with cross-functional teams for both functional and non-functional testing.
  • 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.
  • Participate in CI/CD delivery models, create execution pipelines and integrate automation scripts into CI/CD pipeline.
  • Supporting solution deployments and in resolving low level systems issues and taking part in resolution of such issues.
  • Participate in solution architecture and design discussions and make recommendations to have appropriate changes in design and architecture.
  • Coach and mentor other QA Engineers in test automation best practices, frameworks and SDET discipline.
  • Management and maintenance of Test Environments.

REQUIREMENTS

SKILLS & EXPERIENCES

  • Should have a solid understanding of testing principles, testing types, and methodologies.
  • Highly proficient at debugging issues – learn debug tools like – Chrome Web Debugger.
  • They should be able to write reusable code/scripts and hence they should be proficient in at least one scripting language e.g Java, python.
  • Knowledge and experience in API testing using POSTMAN and Soap UI
  • Experience in White box testing tools and techniques – like Mocking frameworks (Mockito)
  • Good Understanding of architecture principles and standards of applications and general client-server model.
  • Good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming concepts and programming languages like Java, C#,.NET
  • Good understanding DevOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery concepts (CI / CD) and experience in using CI tools like Jenkins/Bamboo and code versioning tools like Git.
  • Experience with at least one automation frameworks such as Selenium and Katalon studio.
  • Good understanding and experience in performance testing as well as writing simple scripts using open-source performance testing tools like JMeter.
  • They should also be aware of the fundamental concepts of Security testing and knowledge of basic coding standards (like OWASP) which ensures that there are no security flaws left unaddressed software applications.
  • Knowledge of agile development methodologies using the Sprint/Scrum methodology of agile.
  • Knowledge of public cloud technology platforms like – Amazon AWS, Google GCP, or Microsoft Azure.
  • Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development.

Academic & Professional

Particulars    Detail    Specific Field or Qualification

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)    RQ
  • Project Management    PRINCE II (Practitioner) / AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM)    AA
  • Masters Degree    Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field of study or Business Administration or Project Management    AA

Experience

  • Total Minimum No of Years’ Experience Required 5

Detail    Minimum No of Years 

  • Software Quality Assurance     3    RQ
  • Software Development    2    ES
  • Software Test Automation    2    RQ
  • Emerging Technologies (e.g. Mobile, Internet Banking, Cloud, Microservices etc)     2     ES
  • IT Projects    4    ES
  • Software Applications & Support     2    DE




Method of Application

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Closing Date : 1 March. 2024





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