Overview

Airtel Nigeria (Airtel Networks Limited) is a leading telecommunications services provider in Nigeria headquartered in Lagos, the commercial nerve-center of Nigeria. The telco ranks amongst the top four mobile service providers in terms of subscribers with a customer base of more than 39.8 million. The company’s product offerings include 2G, 3G, and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce, and enterprise services.

  • Job Position: Information Technology Quality Assurance SME Specialist
  • Job Location: Lagos

Job Description

  • SME, Quality Assurance, and Testing is responsible for testing of all products and applications, coordinating the test strategy and plan with project managers – considering the context and understanding the test objectives and risks – including selecting test approaches, estimating the time, effort, and cost of testing, acquiring resources, defining test levels, cycles, and planning incident management.

Job Requirements
E2E Coordination IT Testing:

  • Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of the project.
  • Test execution, planning, and management. Progress monitoring and corrections to the plan necessary to achieve project goals. Communicate the status of the test activities for the project-to-project teams and management.
  • Estimate and obtain management support for the time, resources, and budget required to perform the testing.
  • Coordinate with other managers (Project Manager, Development Manager, etc.) to ensure the highest level of software quality.
  • Initiate the specification, preparation, implementation, and execution of tests, monitor the test results and check the exit criteria.
  • Responsible for writing and review of test strategy for the project, and test policy for the organization.
  • Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies, and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.
  • Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents/artifacts are documented and maintained.
  • Keep track of the new requirements/change in requirements of the Project.
  • Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to PMO Head.
  • Act as the SME and SPOC between Implementers and Testers.
  • Track and prepare the report of testing activities like test testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines, etc.
  • Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones.

Ensure capability development of the team and improved engagement:

  • Build a testing team of professionals with appropriate skills, attitudes, and motivation.
  • Identify Training requirements and forward them to the Project Manager (Technical and Soft skills).
  • Estimate and obtain management support for the time, resources, and budget required to perform the testing.
  • Assign tasks to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.
  • Review various reports prepared by Test engineers.
  • Manage software testing resources (Recruit, train, allocate and monitor)

Maintain IT delivery quality standard and Built-2-Operate:

  • Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization.
  • Formulate/review software testing strategies and policy for the IT.
  • Generate SOPs for processes in the QA department, train QA staff on SOPs, daily evaluation of activities in the QA lab to ensure compliance with SOPs.
  • Oversee review of processes and documents of the organization and ensure they are adequate in line with requirements of necessary standards.
  • Liaise with HODs to ensure understanding and compliance with requirements of standards.
  • Strong leadership skills. Superior strategic planning and successful tactical implementation skills

Job Requirements
What will make you successful?

  • Graduate Degree: BSc in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent)
  • Certification and knowledge of at least one of the Quality standards
  • Relevant certification would be an advantage, ISTQB/ISEB
  • 6+ years of relevant work experience
  • Knowledge of at least one programming/scripting language.
  • Knowledge of at least one database management system
  • Proficiency in written and spoken English.
  • Experience working for a Telecommunications company, Enterprise company or Billing/ CRM vendor in a Business Analysis role.
  • Direct team management experience.
  • Experience with telecommunication products, processes, and markets

How to Apply

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