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. It also owns KCB Insurance Agency, KCB Capital, KCB Foundation and all associate companies. The holding company was set up to among other things to enhance the Group’s capacity to access unrestricted capital and also enable investment in new ventures outside banking regulations, achieve operational and strategic autonomy for the Group’s operating entities and enhance corporate governance across the Group and oversight in management of subsidiaries.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Test 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.
• Formal 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.
• 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.
• Research, Develop and/or Recommend tools to assist QA Analysts in test planning, execution, and reporting.
• Utilize tools such as code coverage tools to assess the coverage of test suites and make recommendations for additional test cases.
• Monitor test execution across multiple code branches and multiple platforms and performing code reviews.
• Management and maintenance of Test Environments.

Academic & Professional

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

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

• Five Total Minimum No of Years’ of Technical Experience Required

Detail    Minimum No of Years 

• 3 years Software Development Experience
• 3 years Software Quality Assurance
• 2 years Software Test Automation