Lead QA Engineer

Date: 28 Feb 2025

Location:

Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA

Company: Sanlam Group

Who are we?

Glacier by Sanlam brings together leading experts and respected financial services companies to meet clients’ investment needs. We deliver focused investment services through specialist teams, partner with acclaimed financial intermediaries and pride ourselves on our superior products and solutions and high quality service. We offer a comprehensive range of investment solutions, designed to assist in the creation and preservation of wealth. Our offering encompasses local investments, including fixed term investments and investments with guarantees, international investments, retirement saving solutions, and retirement income solutions. While each solution has its own distinct purpose, they all share the world-class quality and commitment that have come to distinguish Glacier.

What will you do?

Job Purpose

The Lead QA Engineer is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining Glacier’s test automation framework and to provide support to all IT Development teams. The Lead QA Engineer will provide for enough automation coverage that will guarantee comprehensive regression testing and quality.

Key Outcomes

The following outcomes will be expected to be achieved by the Lead QA Engineer:

Create and run automation scripts
Collaborate the Lead testers / Test analysts / Devs / Architects to ensure sufficient automated regression testing coverage
Investigate defects and log defects (where required)
Responsible for distributing Automation reports on a regular basis
Keeping libraries and services up to date
Mapping of controls and adding it to application code
Support IT Development teams to deliver on their sprint testing goals
Joint responsibility with Test analysts of maintaining automation datasheets
Serve as the test automation subject matter expert
Optimize automation scripts to ensure maintainable code
Ensure stability of the automation framework and environment
Recommend and initiate enhancements to the current automation framework to ensure relevance
Provide input to the automation strategy to ensure increasing value-add within the functional testing process
Mentor and guide junior automation engineers

Qualifications and Experience

Relevant IT qualification
4+ years' experience in automation scripting and automation tools
5+ years Functional testing experience
Knowledge and experience in Selenium, SpecFlow, Visual Studio, Appium, Desktop Automation
Experience in Back-end development, using C# and JavaScript
Building Automation Frameworks e.g. BDD, AzureDevOps CI/CD, API Testing, WCF services etc
Experience in Front-end development, using HTML5, WPF or any other popular JavaScript libraries
Knowledge and experience of the following processes and methodologies:

- SDLC and Testing Life Cycle

- Scrum Methodology

Prior experience in the financial services industry would be preferred

Competencies

Client focus
Cultivates innovation
Collaborates
Being resilient
Drive results
Problem solving and analysis skills
Ability to perform well under pressure
Planning and organising
Decision-making ability
Attention to detail
Communication skills (written & verbal)

Attributes

Honesty, integrity and respect
Positive, enthusiastic attitude
Professional work standards
Ability to motivate self and others

What will make you successful in this role?

Qualification and Experience

Degree or Diploma with 5 to 6 years related experience.

Knowledge and Skills

Change control

Regression testing and scripts

Business Requirements

System testing, analysis and reviews

Reporting and administration

Personal Attributes

Organisational savvy - Contributing through others

Manages complexity - Contributing through others

Plans and aligns - Contributing through others

Optimises work processes - Contributing through others

Build a successful career with us

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies

Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others

Customer focus - Contributing through others

Drives results - Contributing through others

Collaborates - Contributing through others

Being resilient - Contributing through others

Turnaround time

The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.

Our commitment to transformation

The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.