Reporting to the Head, Digital Engineering, the position holder will be responsible for owning, leading, and driving quality engineering practices across all of Safaricom software engineering and digital experience delivery teams. This role is also responsible for providing expert knowledge of test strategy / frameworks and automation of end-to-end test design, execution, and validation, and deficiency identification and remediation, to enable target business capabilities / user journeys

 Job Responsibilities

• Regular team and one-on-one engagements
• Build the skillset according to the fit for future program
• Team performance management and building high performing SDET team
• Facilitate and empowers teams in achieving high performances in Solution delivery, ensuring quality standards are achieved.
• Functional Testing
  • E2E accountability for testing execution for SITs
  • E2E accountability for management UATs
  • E2E accountability for product readiness to go to production  
  • Non-Functional Testing
  • E2E accountability for performance testing 
  • E2E Accountability for GDR testing
• Automated Testing
  • E2E accountability for testing automation as part of the DevOps strategy
  • Responsible for automated regression testing for all exposed APIs
  • Responsible for automated regression testing for all backend system APIs to be used for upgrades
  • Responsible for decreasing the testing time by 50% and increasing quality to have zero major bugs on production. 
• Systems accountability
  • Accountable for building and maintaining testing environments for all IT solutions
  • Accountable for setting up and maintaining quality engineering platforms

Qualifications - External

• Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field
• 7 or more years of work experience in software quality assurance, testing, programming and /or systems analysis, program management
• At least three years of software engineering or quality assurance leadership responsibilities in large delivery organizations
• Extensive experience of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes, with experience writing and executing comprehensive test plans and cases
• Extensive experience of automated testing tools and frameworks
• Extensive experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD and BDD
• Extensive experience working with multiple programming and scripting languages, such as JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, and Python
• Professional experience and knowledge of the Telecommunications industry preferred
• ISTQB Certification preferred