Information Technology Roles at Wakanow.com

Details:

Responsible for testing and evaluating software applications and systems thereby ensuring the improvement of Wakanow IT software solution.
Responsibilities:

• Estimate, plan and coordinate testing activities (software applications and systems)
• Ensure quality issues and defects are appropriately identified, documented, tracked and resolved in a defect tracking system
• Create detailed and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Perform thorough regression testing
• Manage the improvement of Wakanow IT software solution by reducing defects, inefficiencies, proposing improvements and supporting the execution of improvements that will translate to cost savings and Quality Product development.
• Review requirements specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Participate in daily scrum meetings
• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs.
• Supervise assigned team 
• Follow through on personal administrative responsibilities. 
• Counsel and advise team members daily and as required on ways to improve their performance
• Develop and grow team
• Ensure all goals set for the department are met each and every day.

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of QA for security, XaaS, and virtualized products
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing; working in a .NET environment a plus
• Strong SQL experience in writing queries, working with Linux and understanding of API testing 
• Strong knowledge of computer applications especially MS Office Tools
• Experience with performance and/or security testing a plus
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process

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Details:

The role is to oversee the effective delivery of all IT software development within the organization such that cost, quality, plan, time, and benefits realization are controlled and achieved, through ensuring that all IT software development assignments adhere to the best practices and standard approaches for project management.
Responsibilities:

• Effectively communicate software development expectations to team members in a timely and clear fashion.
• Identify and manage assignment dependencies.
• Proactively manage changes in software development scope, ensure that any change to scope is documented and approved.
• Identify potential crises, devise contingency plans.
• Adhere to operational procedures to ensure that the department runs smoothly.
• Effectively allocate available resources and determine if additional resources will be required.
• Manage financials: forecast vs. actual.
• Develop tools and best practices for software development assignment management
• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise team members and contractors. Influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned responsibilities. Take corrective action.
• Manage team members and delegate tasks.
• Provide Project planning, Milestone management, Scope management, Resource forecasting; Financial Management; Change Management across the project portfolio.
• Define and embed project control and governance.
• Establish and manage communication between Innovation Managers, unit team and project sponsors (management).
• Maintain processes to ensure project management documentation, reports and plans are relevant, accurate and complete for all software development assignments.
• Manage and compile Programme related financial and KPI information.
• Provide and maintain a capacity planning and resource tracking service across the Programme.
• Ensure the appropriate programme benefits are identified, quantified and their realisation planned.
• Ensure cross-programme dependencies are managed and the dependency log is accurately maintained.
• Establish frameworks and standards for Programme and Project Management.
• Track and report on project portfolio performance, providing a real-time, comprehensive, and prioritized view of all projects (software development assignments).
• Monitor Project overhead and capital expenses to ensure achievement of cost efficiency and acting to correct any adverse variances. 
• Ensure overall cost control by monitoring all areas of Project expenditure and reporting on performance against variations. 

Requirements:

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or any related discipline.
• Relevant postgraduate and or professional qualification would be an added advantage.
• Certification in Project Management
• Minimum of 10 years of hands-on experience performing similar responsibilities
• Minimum of 3+ years of experience leading and overseeing teams