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Santam Limited is the largest short-term insurer in South Africa, with a market share in excess of 22%, providing short-term insurance products through broker networks and direct sales channels. The company was established in 1918 and offers personal, commercial, and corporate insurance solutions. Santam is a subsidiary of Sanlam Limited and has been listed ...
The role
We are looking for a Mobile Application Tester to develop, execute and maintain test plans, test cases and customised test scripts for our mobile apps. Your ultimate goal is to ensure that the mobile apps are high-quality, stable, user-friendly and meet the needs of the business. You enjoy identifying and reporting errors in the mobile apps, and collaborating with stakeholders to replicate bugs and test new features.
You will report to the Head of Technology and work daily with a squad of designers, engineers and testers. You will be part of an Engineering team that will be growing to 14 team members by 2024. You’ll work closely with the other parts of the business (actuarial, marketing, operations and product) and the rest of the Engineering team, to deliver on our technology goals.
The team
The Engineering team builds and operates a modern, cloud-first digital insurance platform at the core of JaSure. The team owns the business layer, insurance engine and APIs that power our mobile app and partner integrations. The Engineering team has five main functional areas/disciplines:
- Platform Engineering: Builds the insurance platform at the core of JaSure.
- Cloud Engineering: Builds the core cloud infrastructure that underlies our platform.
- Mobile Engineering: Builds Android and IOS mobile apps using React, Swift and Kotlin.
- Quality Assurance: Responsible for quality across the entire platform.
- IT Operations: Responsible for ensuring the smooth and secure operation of IT services
The development philosophy
- We follow Agile software development best practices and deliver software in Sprints. We believe in an iterative, design-thinking approach to product development and delivery. We automate what we can, keep meetings to a minimum, and have a continuous focus on quality and customer-centricity.
The culture
In short: We take responsibility for deliverables and treat each other with respect. We are building a business where the following are valued:
- Take ownership, be accountable
- Reasoned argument
- Respect
- Foster the team’s growth and have fun
- Leadership is a role, not a rank
The environment and benefits
- Start-up environment within a leading insurance corporate.
- Market-related compensation.
- State-of-the-art hardware to work on (e.g. Macbook Pro).
- Training resources.
- Remote-first.
- Access to co-share offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town that allow us to connect in person and ideate around a whiteboard.
- Flexible working hours.
- Generous leave to balance your work and life.
- Group benefits (life insurance, disability insurance, etc.).
Responsibilities
- Develop test packs for applications.
- You will create detailed acceptance test procedures for our application changes.
- You will conduct user acceptance testing with our stakeholders.
Documentation.
- You will maintain the results of user acceptance testing, feedback and sign-off documents.
- You will ensure all testing frameworks, test procedures and results are clearly documented.
Testing.
- You will write and execute test cases, create test plans, and report and track bugs.
- You will review requirements and design documents to ensure testability.
Our ideal candidate
- 1+ years of software development experience (e.g. Programmer).
- Bachelor’s Degree or IT Diploma in a relevant field or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience in the field of mobile application testing (tools, techniques, etc.).
- Good software development skills. Experience with any high-level programming language is a must. Most of our platform is built with Python so you would be expected to become productive in that language.
- Exposure to cloud services. We use Amazon Web Services for all our infrastructure and service needs so relevant experience with AWS is a bonus, but experience with any of the major cloud providers is welcome.
- Experience with integration, unit testing, user acceptance testing and acceptance test procedures, is beneficial.
- Experience with BrowserStack, Selenium, BeautifulSoup, scraping, and testing frameworks and tools are beneficial.
- Experience with test automation frameworks is desirable.
- Experience in Insurance or Financial Services is advantageous.
- Experience in a start-up environment is advantageous.
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