Job type: Full-time

What you’ll do

Role purpose: 
The QA Specialist is responsible of ensuring designed products and services by CBU agile squads’ 
meet standards of quality by overseeing end to end pre and post development process of features. This role is responsible for reviewing technical design documents and tracking quality assurance metrics to ensure adherence to quality standards. This role is responsible for designing and implementing tests, identifying deficiencies, debugging, and defining remediating actions.  The incumbent will provide software-related operations support, including providing level two and level three incident and problem support.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership: 
•    Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to ensure adherence to design quality and coding standards
•    Design and implement acceptance tests for user and technical stories
•    Test and validate solution against user story and technical story acceptance criteria, leveraging automation where possible
•    Debug tests and provide corrective actions to software engineering 
•    Track quality assurance metrics, such as defect density and early life incidents
•    Suggest improvements to user stories and UX    

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
•    End-to-end solution and software test design, execution, and validation, with management of testing scenarios across teams / capabilities
•    Unit, integration, smoke and static code analysis testing
•    Architectural element testing e.g. APIs
•    Performance and security testing
•    Automated testing and tools e.g. Selenium
•    Strong relationship building, persuasion, and collaboration skills that drives effective constructive feedback and support
•    Good understanding of the business capability / user journey, wider organizational goals, and desired product business outcomes
•    Understanding of both the current Telecommunications and digital services market and emerging business and technology trends

Must have technical / professional qualifications: 
•    Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field 
•    At least 1-3 years relevant work experience of with three or more years is in software quality assurance, testing, programming and/or systems analysis
•    Experience of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes, with experience writing and executing comprehensive test plans and cases
•    Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD, BDD and ATDD
•    Experience working with multiple programming and scripting languages, such as JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, and Python
•    Professional experience and knowledge of the Telecommunications industry preferred
•    Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) preferred
•    Competency in UX principles and practices preferred

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.

What’s in it for you

We want you to feel happy and fulfilled at work, without compromising the other things in life that matter to you. There are lots of ways we support this, including hybrid working and generous parental leave. You’ll also get four Spirit Days a year to focus on your personal development and wellbeing, plus a host of other great benefits too.

Who we are

You may have already heard of Vodafone – We’re a leading Telecommunications company in Europe and Africa. But what you might not know is that we are continuously investing in new technologies to improve the lives of millions of customers, businesses and people around the world, creating a better future for everyone.

As part of our global family, whether that’s Vodafone, Vodacom or _VOIS, you’ll feel a sense of pride and purpose as you contribute to our culture of innovation. We pursue equality of opportunity and inclusion for all candidates through our employment policies and practices. We recognise and celebrate the importance of diversity and inclusivity in our workspace and we do not tolerate any form of discrimination especially related to but not limited to race, colour, age, veteran status, gender identification, sexual orientation, pregnancy, ethnicity, disability, religion, political affiliation, trade union membership, nationality, indigenous status, medical condition, HIV status, social origin, cultural background, social, or marital status.

Together we can.

How to Apply:

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