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Job Title:    IT Quality Assurance Analyst

Organization: KCB Bank

Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda

Reports to: Business Systems Operations Manager.

About US:

KCB Bank Uganda
which is part of KCB Group, East Africa’s largest commercial bank that was
established in 1896. Over the years, the Bank has grown and spread its wings
into Tanzania, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi completing the East
African circuit in the year 2012. Today, the Group has the largest branch
network in the region with over 238 branches, 950 ATMs and 8,000 agents
offering banking services on a 24/7 basis in East Africa. KCB Bank Uganda was
established in the year 2007 and has grown to become one of Uganda’s top ten
commercial banks. Currently KCB Bank Uganda has 14 branches complemented with
16 ATMs spread on Kampala Road, Commercial Plaza, Ben Kiwanuka, Luwum Street,
Oasis Mall Sixth Street, Arua, Elgon Masaba, Fort Portal, Gulu, Hoima, Lira,
Mbarara and Jinja that offer trade financing, corporate and retail banking
services to customers.

Job Summary:  The IT Quality Assurance Analyst is in charge
of performing quality reviews on business requirements, developing standardized
testing methods and strategies, leading execution of functional and
non-functional tests and implementing quality testing and reporting processes
to track and ensure adherence to quality software development process and
products.

Key Duties and
Responsibilities:

·        
Champion
and coordinate business requirements review across functional teams and ensures
that the business requirements are complete, precise and testable.

·        
Works
with project team to define and create overall project test strategy/test plan,
plan test schedules or strategies and Identifies test resources, estimates test
effort in accordance with project scope or delivery dates and ensures that the
test strategy is achieved.

·        
Develop,
document and maintain functional and non-functional test cases, test scripts
and other test artifacts like the test data, data validation, harness scripts
and automated scripts.

·        
Works
collaboratively with the business units and project teams to execute and
validate test cases based upon business requirements and ensures that the test
cases are traceable to the requirements.

·        
In
collaboration with GEA and other critical stakeholders, tune the SQA processes,
adopt tools and define re-usable templates in-line with the adoption and
maturity of the SQA Framework.

·        
Define
test process including required test activities and deliverables, conduct Test
Readiness Assessment, establish testbeds and ensure that test beds are
available for all planned white box and black box testing activities.

·        
Engages,
champions and collaborates with technical teams / personnel in non-functional
testing including integration, regression, load, performance, security and
usability testing.

·        
Prepare,
share and review test results periodically, report any defects, bugs, errors,
configuration issues, and interoperability flaws and develop test acceptance
reports for projects and software changes.

·        
Works
with business units to perform post deployment sanity and regression tests and
post-implementation review within defined period to confirm that the deployed
solution works as per the business requirements.

·        
Participates
in formulation and Implementation of Software process improvement policies and
strategies for IT division.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

·        
The
applicant should hold a Bachelors Degree in any business or IT related

·        
Professional
Qualifications: Project Management, ITIL

·        
Masters
Degree in Business Administration or Project Management

·        
The
ideal candidate for the KCB Bank IT Quality Assurance Analyst job placement
must have experience in Information Technology with focus on Business Analysis,
Software Development, Quality Assurance.

·        
At least
five years’ experience in Banking Systems & Operations, 3 years in software
Applications & Support.

·        
Experience
in at least two IT disciplines such as application development, middle ware,
SOA and Software Quality Assurance.

·        
Experience
in operating systems (Windows, Unix).

·        
Experience
in Database management systems.

·        
Prior
working experience Software Quality Assurance.

·        
Exposure
to Software Testing Automation.

·        
Exceptional
interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.

·        
Excellent
planning and organizational skills with ability to breakdown complex items to
manageable components.

·        
Ability
to liaise with all levels of management and subject matter experts across the
industry and within the organization.

How to Apply:

All candidates are
encouraged to apply online at the link below.

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NB: Only
shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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