QA & Release Officer at ARM Pension Managers (PFA) Limited

ARM Pension Managers (PFA) Limited is one of the first seven Pension Fund Administrators (PFA) granted license by the National Pension Commission in December 2005. It is part of the Asset & Resource Management Company Limited (ARM) Group, one of Nigeria’s most prominent and respected financial service brands. We have pre-eminent reputation in Investment Management, Research and Pension Fund Management.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: QA & Release Officer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Information Technology

Summary

• S/he will develop, establish, enforce, and improve quality assurance and testing strategy including: test automation, performance testing, negative testing, code and coverage analysis, compatibility testing, and environment management.

Responsibilities

• Produce and execute test plans and test cases, document results, log clear and reproducible bug reports and perform exploratory testing.
• Automate manual testing where applicable.
• Develop, establish, enforce, and improve quality assurance and testing strategy including: test automation, performance testing, negative testing, code and coverage analysis, compatibility testing, and environment management.
• Contribute to the design, development and refinement of the continuous integration testing environment.
• Work with development team to define and improve the release process based on best practices.
• Support the development teams for software releases.
• Verify and validate user stories, providing input regarding requirements.
• Ensure timely testing coverage according to project schedules.
• Ensure release candidates pass quality assurance checks
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure releases are delivered on time.
• Dynamically adapt test approach to the context of each project.
• Coordinate and work directly with development teams, developers, product owners and/or external test teams to resolve problems and ensure successful releases.
• Participate in project meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks.
• Work with system team to build, integrate, and deploy software releases to various platforms.
• Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality.
• Maintain a release repository and manage key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists.
• Maintain release schedules and details for all software solutions, ensure it is communicated to and aligned among all key stakeholders.
• Negotiate, plan and manage all release activities.
• Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Release Go/NoGo reviews.
• Work with release engineers to understand impacts of branches and code merges.
• Work with other team members on the GoLive activities including the execution of the deployment plans and checklists.
• Report progress on problem resolution to project or development team.
• Perform analysis and recommend improvements in quality and release process.
• Any other adhoc duties as required or assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Minimum of 2 years of previous quality assurance, product release or project management experience and 4 years of experience in information systems operations environment in systems analysis or development.
• Familiarity with QA processes and flows.
• Deep understanding and experience in software industry, focused on software release and QA.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working directly with global and local teams.
• Experience of DevOps tools.
• Effective management of multiple tasks, expectations and processes simultaneously.
• Adequate knowledge of software development lifecycle.
• Ability to work with cross functional work teams toward task completion.
• Sense of ownership, critical thinking, and analytical skills.

Application Closing Date
22nd February, 2022.