Job Description

Company Description
Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities - plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector's most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We're passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

To facilitate the success of the test effort by driving quality and test advocacy, resource planning and management, and resolution of issues that impede testing. To act as a trusted expert advisor and specialist resource, providing leadership in all quality engineering-related activities-including automation strategy, tooling, and process optimization. This role offers guidance on opportunities to improve test efficiency and effectiveness, especially through the adoption of automated testing frameworks, CI/CD integration, and test tooling aligned with modern engineering practices.

• Drive alignment with the automation initiatives with the system team for the relevant portfolios and applications to ensure standardisation in accordance with the team objectives and strategies
• Intelligent Testing The ability to execute testing through a combination of machine learning, AI processes, and traditional automation practices.
• Coordinate all reporting requirements, including test status, defect monitoring and resolution, risks, metrics definition etc. across all quality engineering activities to ensure that the state of quality engineering is clearly communicated and documented.
• Deliver the consolidated approach to quality engineering and provide input to the deliverable to drive compliance to required standards where applicable.
• Drive alignment with the automation initiatives with the system team for the relevant portfolios and applications to ensure standardisation in accordance with the team objectives and strategies.

Qualifications

• Qualification: Diploma (Information Technology) (Min)

Additional Information
Experience Required: Software Engineering
5-7 years: Proven working experience in software development Life Cycle
Drive alignment with the automation initiatives with the system team for the relevant portfolios and applications to ensure standardisation in accordance with the team objectives and strategies (Required
Intelligent Testing The ability to execute testing through a combination of machine learning, AI processes, and traditional automation practices (Required)
Behavioural Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Checking Things
• Developing Expertise
• Documenting Facts

Technical Competencies:

• Automation
• Intelligent Testing
• Quality Assurance
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies & Tools
• Structured Test Methods & Processes