Key Duties/Responsibilities: 

• Provide technical leadership for the chapter members.
• Collaborate closely with product owners to apply your expertise and feed back into their plans.
• Foster a culture of code review, implement coding standards and promote software quality practices.
• Ensure new developers take on relevant standards and policies.
• Accountable for recruitment, development and retention of technical resources including career pathway development for all technical squad members.
• Provide and apply effective performance management processes and mechanisms in increasing squad performance.
• Create an inclusive environment where Chapter members have freedom and safety to innovate, experiment, and learn from failure.
• Provide open and effective communication channels leading to greater knowledge transfer within the Chapter.
• Recruit, retention and overall onboarding process for all Squad level technical members of the relevant Chapter.
• Provide effective career development for all Squad level technical members of the relevant Chapter.
• Work as part of a Scrum team along with the Scrum Master, Product Owner to design, decompose, implement, and release high end systems.
• Design and implement new features and enhance existing functionalities according to business specifications.

Key Skill/Experience: 

• Approximately 5+ years of hands-on experience working in a similar position.
• Highly methodical test discipline.
• Experience with Manual Testing.
• Experience with Automated Testing.
• Versed with both Backend (Logic) Testing as well as frontend (Web and API).
• Experience writing clear/informative tickets, documenting issues in a way that will assist in future retrospective analysis.
• Knowledge and understanding of the full software development lifecycle
• Experience with Agile development methodologies.
• Understanding of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Test Driven Development.
• A constant will to learn.
• An advocate of team collaboration.
• Good communication skills - ability to communicate clearly and concisely in English language.
• Previous experience in leading technical teams is highly desirable.
• Certification from ISTQB (Foundation-level or higher) or other recognized software testing certification will be considered an advantage.
• Experience coding and scripting in python/BASH will be considered an advantage.
• Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins) and Git flows will be considered an advantage.

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