Lead: Technical & Application Testing

The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank) is South Africa’s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank’s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The role of a Lead: Technical & Application Testing is responsible for the testing aspects of a solution introduced into the existing and new Landbank / Land Bank Insurance Applications. This role oversees the process of testing software before moving it into Landbank production environments and also oversee testing teams, providing technical testing guidance, and ensuring projects are to deliver high-quality application delivery. This is accountable for creating and executing thorough test strategies and plans that align with the project's needs. More so, they create testing plans, assess which cases need to be tested, and create test cases.