OMF IT Tester at Old Mutual South Africa

Why Join Old Mutual?

Enabling our people to be their exceptional best is at the core of what we do. We are rooted in our purpose of Championing Mutually Positive Futures Every Day and believe that a great customer experience is anchored in a great employee experience.

We will provide you with a holistic experience to realise and unleash your potential.

What we Offer:

In partnership with you, we promise to challenge and help you grow in your career through a personalised development plan. We strive to create and expose our people to diverse learning opportunities through formal and informal learning. Most importantly you work in diverse teams made up of enthusiastic people who strive for excellence.

The Opportunity:

Old Mutual Finance is currently seeking to hire a Tester. This is a nationally based role that forms part of the Old Mutual Finance Information Technology Team.

In This Role, You will Get To:

• Design test cases and perform testing of applications
• Identify, document and track bugs
• Perform regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Understanding of UI and backend testing
• Perform initial analysis for technical issues and work closely with developers to reproduce and solve problems
• Work within an Agile environment

IT Service Delivery

• Completes Test Strategy and have a high level understanding of all projects.
• Manages testing, including achievement of milestones and deliverables.
• Provides quality control and improvement of processes and outputs.
• Undertakes operational and technical aspects of processing information, data evaluation and analysis.

Reporting

• Manages effective communication with all stakeholders.
• Monitors progress and provide regular project reports to Test Manager.

Risk Management

• Identifies impending risks that may compromise achievement of deliverables and initiates steps to mitigate risk.

Stakeholder Management

• Builds and maintains relationships with relevant internal/external stakeholders.
• Understands the requirements and where applicable, liaise, communicates and provides assistance.

Team Effectiveness

• Ensures SDLC Testing component is met.
• Manages the testing component within agreed timetables.
• Provides strategic direction, undertakes test planning, scopes the testing required, estimates the effort and duration of testing, and determines resource and environment requirements

Technical Consultation

• Contributes knowledge and expertise where required for peer review.

Contributes knowledge and expertise where required to projects being undertaken by other business units.

What You Will Need To Succeed:

• A Matric or Grade 12 equivalent and a minimum of 5 years experience in a similar role.
• Relevant tertiary qualification advantageous
• ISTQB Foundation and Agile certification is advantageous.
• Object Orientated Programming knowledge advantageous.

Knowledge of the following tools would be beneficial:

• Java coding
• TestNG
• Selenium
• Maven
• Jenkins
• Extent Reports
• Report Portal
• Postman
• PractiTest
• Locust Performance Tool
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Virtual Machines
• Jira