Current Vacancies at Agile Bridge

Key accountabilities:

• Possess and apply a broad knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures of software development to the completion of difficult assignments.
• Successful develop, delivery maintain high quality software (requirements, design, code, documentation, etc.)
• Work with product managers early on to shape product definition so that it can be built in flexible, extensible, and robust way.
• Keep up to date with relevant technology areas.
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
• Evaluates progress and results and recommends major changes in procedures.
• Partner effectively with all team members to deliver against commitments
• Deliver deep technical expertise that drives colleague engagement, clarity and instils a culture of innovation and execution
• Mentoring and coaching to junior members of the development team.
• Commitment to team success and positive team dynamics
• Passion for growing and applying technical skills in service to customers
• Extensive experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, and/or Extreme Programming methodologies
• Maintain relevant documentation to describe logic, coding/configuration, testing and changes where applicable.
• Ensure all tasks are completed to the required quality standards.
• Update job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools & techniques

Key performance indicators:

• Complete assigned development tasks to agreed level of quality and by the required deadline.
• In depth technical knowledge of application functionality and architecture
• Ensure team adherence to best practice and processes.  Focus on sound development concepts and patterns such as object/service orientated architecture, refactoring, and separation of concerns.
• Provide accurate, detailed, and timely estimates and track own activities against plan and support team members achieve these goals
• Comply with project plans and industry standards
• Code Coverage provided on the code developed

Skills, know-how and experience:

• Technology expert in their field.
• Complex problem-solving ability. Innovative and creative thinking.
• Customer Focus
• Operates with considerable latitude for unreviewed action or decision.
• Ability to interpret and/or gather user requirements and translate these into technical specifications and/or code
• Broad operational knowledge in 21st Century IT (Cloud, Social, Mobility, IoT, Big Data…)
• Knowledge on Architecture Best Practices and Patterns (Microservices, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Domain-Driven Design, …)
• Proven experience in using a TDD approach
•  Proficient with several relevant programming languages, frameworks and databases
• Be willing to adapt to significant changes in either technology or environment

Essential:

• 6+ years professional or other practical experience
• Experience in the following technologies:
• C#, Java, HTML and Javascript
• .NET 5 or later
• Web services (RESTful or WCF)
• Entity Framework, NHibernate or other ORM
• Unit testing
• RDBMS (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL or Oracle)
• Visual Studio 2019 or later
• Single Page Application (Angular, React)

Beneficial:

• Cloud Experience (Azure or AWS)
• NoSQL databases (CosmosDB, MongoDB)
• Experience in working with Agile Teams and successfully delivering Agile based software projects (including attending daily scrums, Kanban boards)
• Experience working with Git, Azure DevOps, JIRA, Jenkins, Automated Build Servers, 
• Microsoft certifications

Technical / professional qualifications:

• Microsoft Certification
• Tertiary Qualification

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Key accountabilities:

• Successful develop, delivery maintain high quality software (requirements, design, code, documentation, etc.)
• Contribute to quality activities, incl. peer reviews of estimates, designs and code
• Resolve defects/bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches
• Be an active and enthusiastic team player. Partner effectively with all team members to deliver against commitments.
• Commitment to team success and positive team dynamics
• Proven experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, and/or Extreme Programming methodologies
• Participate in all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Maintain relevant documentation to describe logic, coding/configuration, testing and changes where applicable.
• Continuously strive to make improvements to the existing products and/or systems and services.
• Ensure all tasks are completed to the required quality standards.
• Update job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools & techniques

Key performance indicators:

• Complete assigned development tasks to agreed level of quality and by the required deadline.
• Design, develop, deliver and maintain application/service solutions.
• Ensure adherence to best practice and processes.  
• Focus on sound development concepts and patterns such as object/service orientated architecture, refactoring and separation of concerns.
• Provide accurate, detailed and timely estimates and track own activities against plan
• Comply with project plans and industry standards
• Code Coverage provided on the code developed

Skills, know-how and experience:

• Knows and applies the fundamental concepts, practices and procedures of software development.
• Passion for being hands on techie
• Innovative and creative thinking
• Customer Focus
• Ability to interpret and document user requirements and translate these into technical specifications and/or code
• High numerical reasoning and logic ability with good problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of one or more relevant programming languages, frameworks and databases
• Be willing to adapt to significant changes in either technology or environment
• Broad operational knowledge in 21st Century IT (Cloud, Social, Mobility, IoT, Big Data…)
• Knowledge on Architecture Best Practices and Patterns (Microservices, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Domain-Driven Design, …)
• Proven experience in using a TDD approach

Essential:

• 3-5 years professional or other practical experience

Experience in the following technologies:

• C#, Java, HTML and Javascript
• NET 5 or later
• Web services (RESTful or WCF)
• Entity Framework, NHibernate or other ORM
• Unit testing
• RDBMS (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL or Oracle)
• Visual Studio 2019 or later
• Single Page Application (Angular, React)

Beneficial;

• Cloud Experience (Azure or AWS)
• NoSQL databases (CosmosDB, MongoDB)
• Experience in working with Agile Teams and successfully delivering Agile based software projects (including attending daily scrums, Kanban boards)
• Experience working with Git, Azure DevOps, JIRA, Jenkins, Automated Build Servers, 
• Microsoft certification

Technical / professional qualifications:

• Microsoft Certification
• Tertiary Qualification

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Key Accountabilities 

• Designing and writing test automation scripts using Selenium
• Create SQL queries against a relational database when necessary to verify business scenarios have been met
• Develop and configure test automation networks and execute stability and performance tests.
• Develop and configure API testing using Postman, xUnit or custom scripts
• Develop and configure performance testing using Jmeter, Postman or custom scripts
• Coordinate with software developers to deliver stable enterprise software products.
• Apply, design and develop automated testing strategies and build automated testing frameworks.
• Analyse and verify best automated and manual test approaches and execute acceptance, integration, installation, and system testing.
• Analyse performance test requirements and develop test plans and debug to understand test objective requirements.
• Establish test strategy and manual and automated test suites.

Requirements

Essential:

• Understanding of Agile scrum
• Minimum of 3 years industry and job-related experience in Automation testing
• Experience testing websites, APIs, systems, or application
• SQL and Selenium is essential
• Strong English verbal and writing communication skills

Beneficial:

• Be ISTQB certified
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent discipline) from a recognized tertiary institution.
• Equivalent experience may be considered.
• Jmeter

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Key accountabilities:

• Enable and encourage development team by building and motivating team members to meet sprint goals, adhering to their responsibilities and delivering quality solutions
• Facilitate planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews including demos, and retrospectives for each project
• Manage all aspects of the project to ensure that the project is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives and compliance standards are met.
• Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities
• Be able to measure and report success in achieving sprint goals. (burn up, burn down or other agreed-upon metrics).
• Setup tools that help the team with daily work and for managing team activities. Also measured by how well these items are communicated to interested stakeholders.
• Weekly checking and authorising of timesheets 
• Project management and coordination of project on time, within scope and budget through close collaboration with the Product Owner

Skills, know-how and experience:

• 5+ years experience as a Project Manager
• Complex problem-solving ability
• Must have exceptional communication, organization and time management skills.
• Client Management Experience
• Innovative and creative thinking.
• Proven experience in Agile Methodology
• Develops and maintains solid understanding of the technology industry
• Ability to lead multiple project teams of various sizes and see them through to completion
• Ability to understand technical issues at a high level and articulate them to internal and external stakeholders.

Technical / professional qualifications:

• Tertiary Qualification.
• Project Manager professional qualification (PMP, Prince 2, PMBOK)

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Key Responsibilities:

• General Office Management: Ensure that the office environment is tidy, professional, and conducive to work. Oversee maintenance, office supplies and equipment.
• Communications: Handle incoming and outgoing office communications, including emails, phone calls and on other channels as required. Meeting and greeting all clients.
• Appointment Scheduling: Coordinate appointments, meetings, and calendar events for staff. Assist with travel arrangements and venue bookings when necessary.
• Administrative Support: Provide support to the management team as required, including drafting documents and performing research.
• Inventory Management: Keep track of office supplies and marketing material and reorder when necessary.
• Onboarding: Assist with the onboarding process of new hires, including starter packs, orientation and office access.
• Gift Procurement: Responsible for purchasing and organizing gifts for employees' milestones, special occasions, holidays, or corporate events on request from the People & Culture Team. This includes ensuring that gifts are timely, appropriate, and within budget.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Matric
• Previous experience in an administrative role is beneficial.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment