Career Opportunities at BETSoftware

Job Description
We Want You:

• The search is on for a Senior Software Quality Analyst who will support our company’s growth strategy by ensuring that our software packages are error-free. We want someone who is hawk-eyed to spot any imperfections in every release and to be at the forefront of leading or participating in the testing of systems.
• We want someone who is going to conduct manual functional testing on projects. A person with extensive test lead experience who can handle the demands of multiple projects including resource management and capacity. Are you up for the challenge?

You Bring:

• BSc, BCom and Ndip.
• ISTQB Advanced Certified.
• At least 5 years of QA-related experience.

What You’ll Do

• Apply approaches to achieving effective test coverage.
• Define regression testing strategies.
• Review test basis and extract test requirements.
• Produce test plans and test completion reports
• Execute test cases and log defects.
• Conduct retesting and regression testing.
• Leverage best practices and test design techniques.
• Maintain the regression test pack.
• Contribute to training initiatives and knowledge sharing within the Team.
• Implement ways to leverage test metrics to provide visibility, improve the QA process and lead to improved product quality.
• Leverage test management tools to achieve objectives efficiently and effectively.
• Shape the direction of the Team from a strategic level via test process improvement initiatives, training and mentorship.
• Own career development initiatives from a Team perspective.
• Conduct basic API testing.

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Job Description
We Want You:

• We are on a mission to find a specialist with a sharp eye that can find a needle in a haystack. Someone who knows how to match candidates with our culture and find candidates where no one else can. As a Talent Acquisition Specialist, the successful incumbent will be responsible for managing the recruitment function to ensure that high calibre candidates are sourced, and vacancies are filled timeously. Building and maintaining strong working relationships with Line Management and suppliers.
• You will have the opportunity to work in diverse areas of talent acquisition and talent management, handling various tasks from identifying, attracting, assessing, retaining and advancing internal and external talent. Developing new or creative recruitment solutions ensuring at all times that BET Software hires the best possible talent.

You Bring:

• 4-5 years of recruitment experience in an internal environment (I.T preferred).
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate professionally.
• Familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems and resume databases.
• Solid knowledge of sourcing techniques.
• Strong MS toolkit working knowledge (Teams, Excel, Office)

You Possess:

• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written);
• Strong emotional intelligence and levels of adaptability;
• Capability to work under pressure and in a fast-paced growing environment;
• Resilience and forward-thinking mindset (ability to be resourceful);
• Strong innovative and continual improvement outlook;
• Must have attention to detail and take accountability;
• Excellent problem-solving, results-driven and presentation capabilities.

Nice To Have:

• Relevant HR or related qualification.
• Exposed to AI Search Engines or used AI Recruiting software: LinkedIn, Stack Overflow, GitHub, SeekOut, Amazing Hiring.
• Have Lexis Nexis or MIE data capturing experience and certification.

What You’ll Do:

• Follow the recruitment process as outlined, unless otherwise advised.
• Obtain recruitment pre-authorisation form signed off by management to proceed with the recruitment process.
• Draft internal and external advertisements for vacancies. Place adverts after signing off from the Talent Manager.
• Conduct pre-screening interviews against job spec and eliminate unsuitable candidates early on in the recruitment process. Collate and present CVs to the line manager for consideration.
• Coordinate/facilitate interviews. Coordinating diary times and scheduling interviews with relevant Line Managers and/or Talent Managers.
• Ensure competency-based interview questions are posed as part of the targeted selection process.
• Ensure that reference checks are completed for the final shortlisted candidate, as well as other formal checks (credit/fraud/identity/criminal/educational/driver’s license etc. where appropriate) and obtain a most recent payslip.
• Discuss a potential offer put forward by the line manager for the Talent Manager to consider.
• Draft offer letter for the candidate after the package has been approved.
• Maintain all pertinent applicant and interview data. Ensure that interview notes, guides and reference checks are uploaded onto the HRIS.
• Ensure that all candidates who do not meet the requirements are advised by way of rejection letters or emails. Ensure each candidate has received feedback regarding the outcome of the interview/ensure agencies receive feedback.
• Utilize the internet for recruitment by posting positions to appropriate Internet sources. Research new ways of advertising positions. Use social and professional networking sites to identify and source candidates. Network with industry contacts, association memberships to source the best quality candidate. Aid Public Relations in establishing BET as a recognizable “Employer of Choice”.
• Maintaining a pool of readily available candidates. (Ensure continuous follow-ups are made)
• Formally start building a database of candidates that can be referred to.
• Coordinate psychometric assessments. Scheduling psychometric testing as and when required by the Talent Manager. Send brief to the candidate and invites in terms of sessions. Administer assessment sessions. Obtain informed consent and keep on file to submit with final employee file to HR.
• Providing daily reports and monthly reports, attending weekly recruitment reporting meetings on the status and turnaround times.
• Ensure all BET reports are updated efficiently daily.
• Strive to achieve monthly targets.

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Job Description
We Want You:

• Do you see yourself as an expert who can design, as well as build software that is stable, scalable and performant? Would you be comfortable developing, delivering, and supporting applications, where data is received from, or rapidly made available to users of the systems? Can you do this with the highest degree of integrity possible? Then we're looking for you!
• As our Software Development Engineer, you should enjoy solving challenging problems of scale and availability. You should also have a demonstrated capacity for technical leadership, while meeting business goals.
• If you have strong programming fundamentals, and are excited to learn about current and future technologies, why not join us? You’ll be contributing to a wide range of projects in a highly collaborative and fast-paced environment, and you will become part of an industry-leading team creating solutions on a massive scale!

You Bring:

• At least 3-5 years’ experience within a development environment;
• 2 - 5 years database experience or 3 -5 years server/client- side language;
• Good written and verbal communication skills;
• Strong attention to detail.

What You’ll Do

• Design Fit for Purpose Solutions & Algorithms;
• Perform Planning;
• Implementation - Ensure the Solution is Functionally Complete;
• Implementation – Ensure the Solution Performs Efficiently;
• Implementation – Ensure the Solution has a High Usability Factor;
• Implementation – Ensure the Solution is Reliable;
• Implementation – Ensure the Solution has Effective Security;
• Implementation - Ensure the Solution is Maintainable;
• Verify Deployed Solutions;
• Respond to Outages & Failures;
• Direct 3rd Party Development Partners

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We Want You:

• We are looking for an Intermediate Software Developer (Live) who can design and build software that is stable, scalable, and performant. The successful Team Member will be responsible for primarily revolve around building software by writing code, as well as modifying software to fix errors, adapt it to new hardware, improve its performance, or upgrade interfaces. You will also be involved in directing system testing and validation procedures and working with customers or departments on technical issues including software system design and maintenance.

You Bring:

• Formal Tertiary qualifications or related field.
• At least 3-4 years of experience within a development environment.
• 2-3 years C# experience.
• 2-3 years .net core experience.
• 2-3 years of RESTful API experience.
• Understanding of key design principles of software engineering.
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.
• Understanding of server-side CSS.
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design.
• Understanding of SEO principles.

Advantage:

• SQL, ReactJs.
• Experience in document stores such as Couchbase / Mongo.
• Experience in Message Brokers such as RabbitMQ / Kafka / Red Panda.
• Experience with graphic design applications such as Adobe Illustrator.

What You’ll Do:

• Modifying software to fix errors, adapt it to new hardware, improve its performance, or upgrade interfaces.
• Directing system testing and validation procedures.
• Directing software programming and documentation development.

Respond to Outages & Failures:

• Provide proactive support to Peers, Testing, Dev Support, and Operational teams so the number of escalations to the development team is reduced, thereby maximising development time.
• Provide support to the Dev Support when required during operational events and create or assist with the creation of SOP’s.
• Be available to handle emergency outages and failures for your or your teams’ solutions.
• Perform troubleshooting and effectively resolve issues to increase solution stability and reduce. intervention required over time.
• Recommend and execute approved improvements to development methods and solutions.
• Provide quick resolutions to app/system issues, driving stability, efficiency and effectiveness.
• Maintain solutions which have completed development and are in the operations phase.
• Develop and maintain technical support documentation.
• Assess risk and impact of production issues/changes and take appropriate steps to mitigate risk.

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We Want You:

• We're on the hunt for a talented Copywriter to join our Marketing Team and help us create some awesome content. If you love puns, have a way with words, and are always up for a challenge, there’s a spot for you in our All-Star Team!
• As a member of our Team, you'll have the opportunity to flex your creative muscles and come up with clever and quirky copy that will help us stand out from the crowd. Whether you're a pun master, a meme connoisseur, or a wordsmith extraordinaire, we want to hear from you!

You Bring:

• Relevant degree/diploma.
• 2-3 years in a similar position.
• Proven writing skills backed up by a portfolio.
• Experience with conducting research.

What You’ll Do:

• Responsible for the linguistic content that correctly reflects our brand voice.
• Work with the PR and Communications Specialist to find core messages aimed at specific target audiences.
• Brainstorm visual and copy ideas with various stakeholders to develop a variety of content marketing collateral.
• Conceptualise and write high-quality copy across multiple platforms such as print, outdoor, TV, activations, in-store, social media, and online content.
• Copy checking to ensure all spelling and grammar is correct.
• Check that our content complies with regulations and legislation.
• Interpret briefs into slogans, catchphrases, and effective content.
• Research target audiences and competition.
• Produce original, clear, and credible ideas, messages, and scripts.
• Update and amend campaigns according to feedback.
• Conduct research in order to understand the brand and products sold.
• Be able to write in varying tones and styles and adapt points from creative briefs into persuasive copy concepts.
• Write content for a variety of audiences and purposes and adapt the content to ensure it is relevant and applicable to the audience e.g. internal communication, website, press releases, blogs, newsletters, adverts, scripts, invitations, product information, business documents, etc.
• Monitor trends and adapt content as required.
• Provide support to the Brand and Marketing Team and assist with ad hoc tasks and projects as required.

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Job Description
We Want You:

• We are looking for an Intermediate Database Administrator and we cannot contain our excitement. As our Intermediate Database Administrator, we would be trusting you to manage the upkeep and security precautions for the company's databases. We're constantly on high alert! By monitoring and maintaining malware protection software, you should be able to keep an eye out for any shady or dodgy activity to prevent security lapses.
• Like your favourite uncle with the cold room keys, you'll organize databases and create account information that only authorized users will access, enabling them to quickly find crucial information.

You Bring:

• Completed BSc Computer Science or National Diploma in IT.
• Solid time management and communication skills are essential.
• Experience in designing/optimising MSSQL Databases.
• 3-5 years of experience in a commercial environment.
• 3+years’ experience in MSSQL-all aspects.
• Advanced SQL skills and query writing skills.
• Optimisation and fine-tuning of all aspects of MSSQL.
• Ensuring high database availability competencies.

What You’ll Do:

• Ensure database design is robust, scalable and operating optimally.
• Rollback and Disaster recovery management.
• Work towards a long-term data warehousing solution based on SQL server 2016 Enterprise.
• Monitor database performance, implement changes and apply new patches and versions when required.
• Drive the adoption of processes within the Team which consider and meet the expectations of technical throughput rates and responses, processing times, effective resource utilisation during operation, and that the system or solution ensures maximum operational capacity for requirements to be met.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot database errors.
• Create and manage database reports, visualisations and dashboards.
• Take an active involvement in problem resolution and where necessary, work after hours to ensure that problems are resolved.
• Demonstrate initiative by understanding, acquiring and implementing new knowledge and skills both within the Team and to the wider group.
• Ensure techniques, technologies, tools and processes used are in line with industry best practices.
• Identify Team Members requiring specific knowledge, skill or understanding and seek ways to impart or upskill the Team Members through coaching and mentorship.
• Verify that the knowledge has been imparted successfully, and if not, take steps to rectify gaps in the transfer of the knowledge.
• Provide technical guidance to the Team through collaboration sessions and knowledge-sharing initiatives.