QA Lead

<p><img id="Picture_x0020_1" src="https://rmkcdn.successfactors.com/dd82a348/461743ac-ca78-42fa-8634-a.png" style="height:255.0px;width:600.0px"></p> <div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:18.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Job Classification</b></H2> </div><div><p>QA Lead (146747)</p> <p>Closing date: 24 July 2026</p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Job Family</H2> </div><div><p>Informaton Technology</p> </div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Career Stream</H2> </div><div><p>IT Operations</p> </div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Leadership Pipeline</H2> </div><div><p>Manager of Others</p> </div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Job Purpose</b></H2> </div><div><p>To Lead Quality Engineering in squads in accordance with the agreed Test Engineering &amp; Quality practices. Ensure alignment across stakeholders to optimise the testing efficiencies across the Product delivery stack. Ensure team effectiveness and healthy team dynamics. </p> </div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Job Responsibilities</b></H2> </div><div><ul> <li>Liaise with Stakeholders across Group Technology to build a network that will align to nWoW.</li> <li>Ensure stable solutions to stakeholders by delivering automated testing solutions and quality practices within agreed time lines and within agreed risk parameters </li> <li>Provide advice to clients on quality practices    </li> <li>Build and foster deep relationship with Peers, Subject Matter Experts, Developers, Product Owner and other Stakeholders though honest communication which align to the Nedbank Values.    </li> <li>Build a deep understanding of the domain in order to contribute to the ongoing value proposition.    </li> <li>Work closely with Quality Assurance Leads, Practise Leads, Developers, Architects, Product Owner and other Stakeholders to meet the expectations of our clients.    </li> <li>Participate in the overall PI planning and the squad deliverables including capacity estimation and interdependencies.    </li> <li>Obtain and review relevant artefacts from stakeholders (eg: technical landscape, architecture design, technology roadmaps)    </li> <li>Create the Test Strategy, approach or plan and ensure alignment to the squad objectives.    </li> <li>Contribute to the systematic breakdown of the business needs into manageable feature(s), stories and epics that can be delivered.    </li> <li>Ensure all committed user stories and acceptance criteria are tested for the specific release ensuring quality is not compromised.    </li> <li>Participate in the backlog grooming and in the sprint planning.       </li> <li>Participate in the daily stand-up where necessary, manage the issues raised by the Software Quality &amp; Test Engineers and raise relevant associated risks.    </li> <li>Encourage the Software Quality &amp; Test Engineers to collaborate across squads to ensure efficient implementation of deliverables and ensure automation governance is adhered to by all.        </li> <li>Perform pull requests and ensure all feature branches are committed to Master.    </li> <li>Review that the test automation solution meets the architectural and development standards that are re-usable and scalable.    </li> <li>Challenging the business and technology solutions in alignment with client value proposition.    </li> <li>Ensure integration into and continuous test automation execution on DevOps pipelines.    </li> <li>Work with the Enterprise Quality Assurance Practise Lead on the metrics and reporting to communicate quality engineering practices.        </li> <li>Ensure the defect management process is adhered to by the Software Quality &amp; Test Engineers.    </li> <li>Ensure artefacts are easy obtainable by storing all relevant artefacts in the repository    </li> <li>Participate in the retrospective reviews and seek efficiencies which will ensure quicker delivery with high quality to our client(s).    </li> <li>Encourage Peer reviews of the QA artefacts.   </li> <li>Understand and manage own demand based on expected timelines articulated by the line-management and project expectations.    </li> </ul> <p> </p> </div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Job Responsibilities Continue</b></H2> </div><div><ul> <li>Collaborate with Peers and industry experts to understand technical advances and its application within the Nedbank eco-system.    </li> <li>Seek ongoing improvements in technical capabilities.    </li> <li>Ensure alignment of solution with emerging technologies and impact on Nedbank technologies    </li> <li>Mentor the Engineers within the team to improve their technical capabilities.    </li> <li>Provide input into the documentation of standards &amp; quality practices for Quality engineering for the organisation's current and future technological architecture.   </li> <li>Provide input into performance management of team members (e.g. performance contracts, development plans, poor performance and improvement plans, and review).    </li> <li>Ensure the team dynamics are healthy (coaching and mentoring, assist with decision making, encourage self-organisation and assist with prioritisation).    </li> <li>Support the achievement of the  business strategy, objectives and values.            </li> <li>Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations.</li> <li>Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking.</li> </ul> </div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Essential Qualifications - NQF Level</H2> </div><ul style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0"><li>Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree </li></ul></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Preferred Qualification</H2> </div><div><p>BSc IT or BComm IT or similar</p> </div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Preferred Certifications</H2> </div><div><p>ISTQB Agile Foundation. ISTQB Advanced certification (preferred). Bootcamp training in Agile &amp; DevOps.</p> </div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Minimum Experience Level</H2> </div><div><p>Total number of years of experience:7 - 10 years<br> Management experience as part of the above years:1 - 2 years<br> Type of experience:Experience in Agile delivery and exposure to Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development in a continuous delivery model. Test analysis &amp; design experience. 4 years Test automation experience. 1-3 years Development experience. Ability to understand and interpret logical solution architecture. Understanding &amp; implementation of DevOps pipelines &amp; tools.</p> </div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Technical / Professional Knowledge</b></H2> </div><ul style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0"><li>Ability to understand and interpret logical solution architecture </li><li>Use of testing tools and frameworks (E.g. Selenium, Appium, RestAssured, Karate, Jira, JMeter) </li><li>Experience of implementing QA solutions within a continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline </li><li>Object-orientated Programming (OOP) </li><li>Development languages; C#, Java </li><li>Mobile Test Automation </li><li>Soap and RESTFUL services </li><li>Service virtualisation &amp; Data virtualisation </li><li>Vulnerability testing </li><li>Performance and load testing </li></ul></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Behavioural Competencies</H2> </div><ul style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0"><li>Adaptability </li><li>Decision Making </li><li>Emotional Intelligence Essentials </li><li>Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills </li><li>Influencing </li><li>Quality Orientation </li><li>Planning and Organizing </li><li>High-Impact Communication </li></ul></div></div><p style="line-height:18.9px"><img alt="" height="228" src="https://rmkcdn.successfactors.com/dd82a348/61ad7a3f-eb85-4980-a04c-e.jpg" style="height:75.0px;width:600.0px" width="245"></p> <p style="line-height:18.9px">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p> <p style="line-height:18.9px"><span style="color:#006341"><em><b>Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566 </b></em></span></p>