Head of Automation
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Job Location:
Centurion - South Africa
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
One of the largest medical scheme administrators in the country is on the hunt for a Head of Automation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and execute the end-to-end automation strategy including roadmap tool selection and best practices across development testing deployment and monitoring.
- Design and maintain automation frameworks covering testing (web mobile API and performance) CI/CD IaC and system monitoring.
- Collaborate with QA DevOps engineering product and business teams to align automation with delivery goals.
- Mentor and upskill teams on automation tools standards and best practices.
- Drive governance and continuous improvement through standards emerging tech evaluation and quality metrics.
Job Experience and Skills Required:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field with relevant certifications (ISTQB AWS DevOps and Microsoft DevOps) as an advantage.
- 510 years experience in software development/QA including 23 years in a leadership role with proven automation delivery at scale.
- Strong skills in automation frameworks and tools such as Selenium Cypress Playwright Appium and RestAssured.
- Proficiency with CI/CD and DevOps platforms including Jenkins Azure DevOps GitLab CI/CD and GitHub Actions.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform Ansible and CloudFormation) and cloud environments (AWS Azure and GCP).
- Programming capability in languages like Java Python JavaScript/TypeScript or C# with strong API automation skills (Postman SoapUI Newman and K6).
- Knowledge of Docker/Kubernetes performance and security testing tools (JMeter Gatling and OWASP ZAP) and Microsoft automation tools (Power Automate and Power Apps).
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