These jobs were popular with other job seekers Why Your Role Matters • You’ll play a vital role in democratising and stabilising the financial system. • Your work will help usher in new era of embedded finance for banks to brands. • SA’s transaction flows and online economy depend on our systems. Duties&Responsibilities Main Accountabilities • Empowering the QA chapter to create flow and quality within CI/CD process. • Drive the QA strategy to implementation. • Work effectively with other Direct Transact teams i.e. Project Office, Development&Infrastructure teams to ensure the timeous delivery of work against agreed priorities. • Implement mechanisms to monitor, manage and provide progress on all QA activities. • Accountable for delivery of quality software development projects. • Ensure that the product/feature/enhancement requirements have been met as set out in design. • Create, implement and maintain a continuous improvement plan for QA. • Working closely with the project office and the business development teams to meet current and future customer needs. • Research the external environment, and where appropriate identify and recommend external partners for the delivery of best of breed technologies suitable for QA. • Reviewing and applying best practices to establish frameworks consistent with and supportive of the Product and Business Development Strategy. • Identifying and implementing technology to support the future success of the business. • Articulating to colleagues, directors and user communities, the company’s technological vision, opportunities, and challenges as part of the company strategy. • Collaborating with the appropriate functions and users to evaluate and identify technology platforms for delivering the company’s products and internal services. • Understanding the use cases (and/or user stories) in order to oversee the design of the QA for the products to be built. • Establish software consistent QA standards and processes aligned with best practices for delivery of scalable, robust and high-quality software. • Supervise resource allocation and availability to assure productive and sustainable use of available resources taking into consideration customer demand versus resource availability i.e. resource and capacity management. • Responsible for his/her own work planning against objectives set in agreement with the COO. • Ensure effective internal communications both within the software development team and across the organisation. Team (building and management) Accountabilities • Build an environment of psychological safety, for team members to thrive. • Ensure that the skills and experience of QA team is consistent with its engineering, technological and business needs for providing quality in current and future services. • Establish clear organisational structures and succession plans aligned with appropriate accountabilities, responsibilities and personal development for all QA team members in line with any anticipated growth. • Comply with all relevant policies and procedures. • Complete all documents required by the company policies and procedures. Other Accountabilities • Undertake additional tasks and responsibilities as may be reasonably expected from the role in order to achieve the objectives of the Head of QA and company strategy. Desired Experience&Qualification Knowledge and Skills Deep and practical understanding of DevOps and Agile Methodology, process and principles. Microsoft DevOps (software) Experience. Leadership. Experience In taking companies and/or software development teams through a transformation and change management process. Implementing and getting test automation adopted. Driving and reporting on strategic initiatives in QA. Qualifications DevOps and/or Agile Training. These jobs were popular with other job seekers #J-18808-Ljbffr