Active Jobs at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

• To ensure that scripts are captured accurately and timeously, and that patients are counselled and that the appropriate generic switching is done for patients to receive their medication on time and in full in accordance with Good Pharmacy Practice. These functions will be performed under the supervision of a pharmacist.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

The successful applicant will be responsible for but not limited to the following job functions:

• Accurate capturing of scripts with appropriate generic switching as per the relevant SOP’s, GPP and scheme rules
• Counselling of patients with each new script under the supervision of a pharmacist.
• Ensure todays work is done today, that all silo’s and st42’s are up to date.
• Assist with status 10, 12 and authorizations.
• Assist with the call center when needed
• Achievement of department metrics as set out and agreed.
• Updating patient profiles and templates as necessary.
• Assisting with incoming queries from customers and patients.
• Adhere to all pharmacy SOP’s.
• Adhere to all GPP requirements.
• Assisting with stock takes and cycle counts.
• Assisting with pre-packing as required.
• Assisting with picking and packing as required.
• Attending meetings / team builds/training onsite/offsite from time to time.
• Adhoc assistance to the Administration Pharmacist.

Personal Attributes and Skills 

• Customer Focus – is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers.
• Integrity and Trust – can present the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and helpful manner.
• Compassion – is available and ready to help.
• Action Orientated – is action oriented and full of energy for the things he/she sees as challenging.
• Planning – sets objectives and goals.
• Learning on the fly – learns quickly when facing new problems.
• Strong attention to detail
• Good interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Stress tolerance
• Time management skills

Education and Experience

• Post Basic Pharmacist Assistant
• Registered with Pharmacy council.
• 3 - 5 years Post basic pharmacy experience
• Courrier Pharmacy experience or Retail Pharmacy experience
• Self-motivated
• Need to understand the workload and volumes to assist in different areas where needed.
• Section 21 and Flexgen experience (advantageous)
   

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Key Purpose

• The Business Intelligence (BI) developer is responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting ETL solutions according to defined frameworks. The right individual will in addition possess the skills and capabilities to design and implement new frameworks required by the team to keep with evolving changes in sources and technologies. Construction of complex BI Solutions based on requirements of business area owners and/or specifications produced by the BI Architects and Systems Analysts. (BI Solutions imply ETL / Analytics / Presentation). Driving Engagement and building relationships with key stakeholders which include Systems Analysts, BI Architects and Business area owners. The BI Developer should have a firm grasp of BI implementation methodologies especially in a dimensional data warehouse environment using the Microsoft BI stack as a basis for required development.

The candidate should possess the following:

• Analysis and Communication Skills
• Data gathering, research and analytical abilities so as to develop insightful conclusions and generate solutions to address user needs
• Conceptualize and design solutions
• Support and coach other junior systems and business analysts

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• The BI Developer must be able to construct complex BI solutions based on specifications produced by BI Analysts. In addition to working off specifications, the incumbent should been quite adapt at conceptualizing and implementing solutions based on technical discussions with team members.
• Interact with business and system analysts to resolve problems.
• Collaborate with analysts to understand source structures, evaluate requirements and finally deliver a solid solution.
• Conduct data analysis on various source systems as part of the solution development process.
• Develop and maintain SSIS packages
• Create required database structures
• Develop and maintain T-SQL code - Added advantage
• Analyse SQL execution plan to optimise performance
• Develop SSAS models
• Workshop solutions with Systems Analysts and Architect to compile relevant technical specifications
• Contribute to the development of architectural guidelines and standards
• Prototyping, Research and Development of new techniques and solutions
• Team engagement champion
• Scheduling business processes via ETL tools
• Excel Reporting and scripting – advanced charting, conditional formatting.
• Understand and resolve complexities working across multiple database platforms
• Develop PowerBI and SSRS reports
• Must be able to read and maintain code not written by yourself.
• Have experience following a formal SDLC as part of solution delivery.
• Optimise ETL processes as well as SQL queries by analysing query execution plans.
• Maintain code repositories for version control of developed solutions.
• Peer review of code and solutions developed
• Create and maintain metadata repositories
• Implement database structures according to specifications and guide on improvements (indexes/partitioning etc.) where necessary.
• Perform ETL support on a standby basis to ensure that the ETL batch completes within SLA

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Ability to design and implement complete ETL processes using SSIS and T-SQL.
• Strong ETL experience in loading slowly changing dimensions as well as transactional and snapshot fact tables.
• Strong reporting experience using Microsoft data technology stack such as (, SSRS, Power BI)
• Ability to design and implement semantic models using SSAS
• Ability to write DAX and MDX query
• Proven experience with working with large datasets in the region of billions of records.
• Experience on working with delta datasets and versioned history on target tables.
• Solid experience in understanding ERD’s and source-to-target mappings as well as producing source-to-target mappings of solutions.
• Strong SQL query writing ability (across database environments e.g. Oracle, Netezza, Postgres etc) with a firm understanding of analytical functions.
• Must be able to evaluate technical ETL solutions for inefficiencies (from a database and code perspective) and implement optimization.
• Strong database fundamentals and data modelling knowledge (normalization and de-normalization).
• Good understanding of ODS, data warehouse, data mart, cube, and database technologies.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Navigating ambiguity and complexity
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Added advantage of Data mining and BIG data technology including (Python, Spark, H2O) 

Education and Experience

• National Diploma in IT (BTech) – Advantageous
• Bachelor of Science (Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics) – Advantageous
• Microsoft Business Intelligence certifications will be an added advantage
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in BI with over 1 years’ experience in implementing complete BI solutions within an enterprise data warehouse.
   

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Key Purpose

• As an Agile Test Analyst, you will be a key part of a Scrum team, and will have a huge impact on the quality of Discovery’s growing range of digital touchpoints and services that allow the Virtual Agent(Chatbot) to deliver all outbound and in-bound communications in the best possible way.
• The Digital Channels team works on dynamic new projects and product enhancements within the web and mobile platforms in order to improve business inefficiencies, gain competitive advantage on our products and ultimately to provide better service to our clients. Using knowledge of the organization’s technology infrastructure and specific software applications, Digital Channels helps the business to address changes through technologies.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Working as a collaborative member of the Scrum team
• Writing and executing test cases against stories, creating and maintaining automated tests in-line with agreed testing standards and practices
• Documenting defects and making these visible to the teams and the Product Owner
• Providing feedback on user stories from a quality point of view and promoting bug prevention strategies, testability, accessibility and other QA concepts
• Collaborating with other testers, BAs, developers, designers and other experts across the business to deliver business and customer value
• Being proactively involved in the end-to-end lifecycle of digital features including code reviews, user stories grooming, requirements understanding
• Actively participating in all relevant Agile ceremonies and cadences

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Stress Management
• Good analytical skills
• A challenging and enquiring mind
• Attention to detail and tenacity

Technical Skills

• Strong experience with: Cucumber, API Testing, Selenium WebDriver, Continuous Integration & Performance testing.
• Excellent working knowledge of test methodologies, writing test plans, creating test cases and debugging
• Extensive technical understanding across the digital domain
• A thorough understanding of testing/QA best practices
• Experience working in large, complex organisations
• Demonstrated experience in successfully contributing to development teams in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Understanding of common software failures and faults
• Knowledge of the domain (highly desirable)
• Knowledge of the system or application-under-test (highly desirable)
• Experience in a variety of testing efforts (desirable)

Education and Experience

Minimum

• Diploma/Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology
• At least 3 years’ + experience in manual testing
• 1- 2 years automation experience
• ISTQB certified with strong knowledge on QA process
• Experience in Agile way of software development
• Experience in BDD way of writing test cases
• Knowledge on various automation frameworks

Advantageous

• 1 year Software Development experience
• Experience on Development and Maintenance of Automation Framework (not to be confused with test case automation).
• Agile Methodology Certification

Methodologies

• Agile Methodology (Scrum)

Tools

• Cucumber, API Testing, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium with Java, Continuous Integration & Performance testing.

Processes

• ITIL (Incident, Release, Problem Management)
   

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Key Purpose

• This team is responsible for the Discovery member application published to the Play Store. They work with other Discovery business units to deliver innovative solutions to all members.
• Within the Digital system area, the iOS developer will work on the Discovery application together with Product Owners from various business units, Business Analysts, UX/UI designers & Content Teams, System Architect, and managers to understand the overall business need and the requirements, design the system solution using various approaches and technologies, implement the designed solution in the system with high quality source code.
• iOS developers support the projects throughout the project lifecycle, including requirements, design, implementation, release, and post release support.
• iOS developers in the Digital area must be able to technically support and maintain the deployed applications on dev, test and production environments.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

Senior iOS developers must have a competent understanding of:

• The system development life cycle and can explain the developer’s role in each stage
• The defined system development tools, processes and workflows
• The distinction between business, functional and non-functional requirements and how to implement them
• The importance of delivering high quality source code and how to achieve it
• The technologies used and the systems components structure
• The domain and business terminologies and link them back to system implementations 

Senior iOS developers should be able to demonstrate that they can:

• Develop, test, and maintain the deployed application software with high quality
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to ensure a successful, high-quality product and great user experience
• Analyse, maintain and enhance existing application and troubleshoot issues with efficiency.
• Perform accurate development estimation
• Produce technical specifications and designs. Participate in new business development through ideation, prototype development, and project estimates
• Research new techniques, tools, and best practices and share that knowledge with the team and community
• Maintain high standards 
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Self-starter who takes ownership, is accountable, and is able to work under minimum supervision
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Can help with quality assurance and provide comments                                   
• Within 6 months of being in the position, a senior iOS developer should be able to demonstrate strong domain knowledge and technologies in relation to the environment that they work in

Personal Attributes and Skills

Behavioral Skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills (English)
• Ability to work in a self-driven, complex environment with multiple and changing priorities
• Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables
• Ability to think abstractly
• Ability and desire to quickly learn new technologies
• Clean code thinking

Technical Skills

• Project Management
• Business Writing Skills
• Presentation and Facilitation Skills
• Process Mapping
• Software testing pack design, functional testing

Responsibilities

• Maintain and extend existing development activities
• Work with customers to determine project requirements
• Design software to fulfil customer requirements
• Develop software from requirements and specifications
• Find and repair software defects; unit testing, UI automation testing
• Stay current with Apple and iOS standards and guidelines
• Documenting development work done

Education and Experience

Minimum

• Informatics degree or Diploma
• 4+ years’ experience developing iOS applications

Advantageous

• 2+ years’ user interface analyst experience
• Software Engineering related degree/qualification
• Honours degree
• Business experience and product knowledge
• Experience in Objective-C is beneficial

Methodologies

• Waterfall and Agile
• Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns

Tools

• SoapUI (SOAP) / REST client (JSON)
• XCode
• Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence)

Technologies

• iOS
• UML
• XML, JSON
• SOAP and REST Web Service Development

Other

• Software architecture
• JAD sessions
• Data modelling techniques