Safaricom Kenya Product Owner- Wealth Management - Jobs in Kenya

Safaricom Kenya Product Owner- Wealth Management - Jobs in Kenya

About M-Pesa Africa
M-Pesa, is a pioneering fintech business and global market leader in mobile money. From starting in 2007 as a convenient means by which the unbanked and underbanked can make digital payments, M-Pesa has now grown to offer >50 million active customers financial services, enterprise, merchant, and retail solutions. We are proud of our work in enabling the digital economy in our markets, and in driving financial inclusion.

M-Pesa Africa is currently supporting 6 markets and scaling with a mission to build a ONE M-Pesa, the largest FinTech and digital ecosystem in Africa by 2025.

Our Culture Pillars: Customer Focus; Innovation; Experiment & Be bold; Teamwork


Role Description
You will be responsible for owning, managing, and driving quality engineering practices within our various Agile Release Trains (ARTs). Current ARTs include Digital, Business Payments and Credit. You will be fully responsible for functional, non-functional and automated testing within the specific agile release train.

What you will be doing
Leadership

Regular team and one-on-one engagements;

Build the skillset according to the fit for future program;

Team performance managementand building high performing SDET team;

Facilitate and empowers teams in achieving high performances in Solution delivery, ensuring quality standards are achieved.


Functional Testing

E2E accountability for testing execution;

E2E accountability for management UATsNon-Functional Testing;

E2E accountability for performance testing;

E2E Accountability for GDR testing and disruptive testing.


Automated Testing

E2E accountability for testing automation as part of the DevOps strategy;

Responsible for automated regression testing for all exposed APIs;

Responsible for automated regression testing for all backend system APIs to be used for upgrades;

Responsible for decreasing the testing time by 50% and increasing coverage and quality to have zero major bugs on production.


Systems accountability

Accountable for building and maintaining testing environments for all IT solutions

Accountable for setting upand maintaining quality engineering platforms


Competencies you require for the role

Extremely valued as a thought partner across all teams and viewed as an invaluable role model for peers

Natural “servant” Manager, with the ability to develop and communicate the objectives, inspire, coach, and motivate staff

Able to recruit, mentor, and develop large teams spread across multiple initiatives

Ability to understand long-term (‘big picture’) andshort-term perspectives of events and change and how they relate to achieving business outcomes

Organizationally savvy, with understanding of the political climate of the enterprise and how to navigate obstacles and politics.

Knowledge of both the current Telecommunications and digital services market and emerging business and technology trends

Apply if you have:

Master’s or bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or another related field;

Five (5) or more years of work experience in software quality assurance, testing, programming and /or systems

analysis;

At least three years of software engineering or quality assurance; managership responsibilities in large delivery organizations;

Extensive experience of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes, with experience writing and executing comprehensive test plans and cases;

Extensive experience of automated testing tools and frameworks;

Extensive experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD and BDD;

Extensive experience working with multiple programming and scripting languages, such as JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, and Python;

Competency in UX/UI principles and practices;

Experience working in cloud-native environments;

Professional experience and knowledge of the Telecommunications industry preferred;

Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) preferred.


What you can expect from us:

We believe in a fair and robust interview process

We have a robust flexible total reward scheme

Dedicated support and mentoring/coaching

Opportunity to develop and progress – plus a solid dedication to work-life integration. It all means you’ll have everything you need to advance your career and achieve your full potential.


Note to Applicants
As part of our recruitment process, we will request the below documentation which will be required as soft copies at a later stage of the process.

An updated CV with a confirmation of three referees- 2 must be professional and must have supervised you at some point, the other referee can be a colleague in the same professional field.

If the referees are within the same organization that you are working with, you will need to confirm to us that it’s okay to contact them in writing (via email).

This also includes all references within the Human Resources department.

Scanned copy of certificate of good conduct from the CID (Less than 1 year old) - Applicable to Kenyans Only

Scanned copy of certificate from Credit Reference Bureau (CRB) – Applicable to Kenyans Only

Scanned copy of University Certificate

Scanned copy of your National ID / Passport-Legal Form of Identification


How to Apply

If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, kindly proceed to update your candidate profile on the recruitment portal and then Click on the apply button. Remember to attach your updated resume.

Persons with Disabilities (PwD) and Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.


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