Consultant Quality Management - Mafikeng Verfied

Salary Negotiable Mafikeng, North-West Mafikeng, North-West more than 14 days ago 05-05-2015 2:25:32 PM
02-06-2015 2:25:32 PM
JOB TITLE Consultant: Quality Management
SALARY R 426 753.74 – R 711 256.23
LOCATION Mafikeng

Closing Date 15 May 2015

Purpose of the job

To manage or execute the quality assurance services in accordance with ICT standards and the enterprise architecture for Government.

Key Responsibility Areas
Participate in the development and implementation of Architectural and Governance mechanisms for the testing section to improve quality of services and deliverables.
Participate in the quality assurance of programmes / projects.
Responsible for quality assurance phases of software development programmes / projects.
Implement Quality Assurance frameworks and repositories in accordance with SITA Quality Assurance Methods.
Manage and execute comprehensive quality assurance activities.
Ensure that resources (including self) are kept abreast of the latest industry developments and ensure that appropriate technologies are used for knowledge management.
Manage team/s to ensure effective and efficient operations and that all the resources are utilised optimally.

Qualifications and Experience
Minimum:
Bachelor’s degree in an ICT related field (Computer Science, Information Systems, Technology and Engineering) or equivalent.
Experience:
5-8 years’ experience in the ICT field, including IT Governance, IT planning, systems development / procurement, implementation and maintenance / enhancements of integrated solutions across multiple hardware and software platforms with leadership, management, operational responsibility in a large corporate/public sector organisation.
The experience must include 3-5 year in the quality assurance profession.

Technical Competencies Description

Knowledge of:
Corporate Governance.
ICT Governance and Compliance.
Development Methodologies.
Programming Languages.
Implementation Methodologies.
IT Quality Management.
Business Process Management.
General Business Management.
General Human Resource Management.
General Financial Management.
General ICT Procurement.
IT Security.
ICT Standards.
Legislative environment and IT Legislation.
Integration Methodologies.
COTS (Commercial of the Shelf) Products.
OSS (Open Source Software) Products.
IT Strategies and Architectures.
Project Management.
Data Management.
Application Maintenance and Support.
User Support and Training.
Application Testing; and Hosting and Converged Communication
Expertise on:
KING III and Company Act.
Object Orientation.
Agile and Waterfall Methodologies.
Model Driven Architectures.
Distributed Architectures/Service Orientated Architectures.
Solution Architecture and Database Design.
COTS acquisition and implementation.
FOSS Products.
Planning and Organising.
Financial Management; and Fraud Awareness.

Skills:
Security (Software and Technologies).
Portal (HTML, CSS, JAVA scripting, Portlets with various integrations).
Interfacing and Integration (Middleware Technologies).
Development methodologies (RUP, OpenUp, Agile), SDLC (ISO\IEC12207)).
Quality (ISO9001, CMMI).
Entity Relationship Diagrams; and Governance Processes and Standards (COBIT, ITIL, UML)

Other Special Requirements

The incumbent will be required to travel to other SITA offices around the country.

Correspondence will be entered to with shortlisted candidates only.If you do not hear from us within two months of the closing date, please regard your application as unsuccessful