QA Manager

Main Job Tasks and Responsibilities

• Lead the QA team through priorities, planning and metrics.
• Help define the Software Development Lifecycle processes for the QA team.
• Direct Software Test Plans creation and Test Plan progress reporting.
• Supporting the development team through the software lifecycle, generating test cases, and providing feedback to improve the software.
• Manual testing and exploration of software under development to gain working knowledge and productive feedback.
• Developing and executing manual and automated (i.e. Cypress) testing suites.  Testing methodologies including regression, black box, white box, functional, structural, load, and performance testing.
• Collaborate with the development team in creating and maintaining software unit tests.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree or higher education.
• Leader/supervisor experience.
• 5+ years quality assurance, or other experience with software development.
• SDLC and QA methodologies
•  Ability to read C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML, and/or JSON and use web technologies and scripting languages.
• Experience with Azure Dev Ops, Bamboo, Git, JIRA or other CI tools and processes.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL, or relational database management systems, and scripting languages such as T-SQL.
• Excellent problem solving and root cause analysis skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills, able to explain complex technologies in useful ways.

Key Competencies

• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Able to participate on a fast-moving agile development team.
• Ability to digest imprecise problem descriptions and produce technical solutions.
• Excel at multi-tasking and time management.
• Ability to communicate topics to people without a technical background.
• A constant desire to grow, learn and explore new technologies.

Language: English 

Job Type: Contract 

Pay: 210,000 KES/Monthly