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Skills and Experience

What you’ll do:

• Lead Quality Engineering in squads in accordance with the agreed Test Engineering and Quality practices.
• Ensure alignment across stakeholders to optimize the testing efficiencies across the Product delivery stack.
• Ensure team effectiveness and healthy team dynamics.
• Liaise with Stakeholders.
• Deliver automated testing solutions. 
• Provide advice to clients on quality practices.
• Build and foster deep relationships with Peers, Subject Matter Experts, Developers, Product Owners, and other Stakeholders. 
• Work closely with Quality Assurance Leads, Practise Leads, Developers, Architects, Product owners, and other Stakeholders to meet the expectations of clients.
• Participate in the overall PI planning and the squad deliverables including capacity estimation and interdependencies.
• Obtain and review relevant artifacts from stakeholders (eg: technical landscape, architecture design, technology roadmaps).
• Create the Test Strategy, approach, or plan and ensure alignment with the squad objectives.
• Contribute to the systematic breakdown of the business needs into manageable feature(s), stories, and epics that can be delivered.
• Ensure all committed user stories and acceptance criteria are tested for the specific release ensuring quality is not compromised.
• Participate in the backlog grooming and in the sprint planning.
• Participate in the daily stand-up where necessary, manage the issues raised by the Software Quality & Test Engineers, and raise relevant associated risks.
• Perform pull requests and ensure all feature branches are committed to Master.
• Review that the test automation solution meets the architectural and development standards that are reusable and scalable.
• Challenging the business and technology solutions in alignment with the client's value proposition.
• Ensure integration into and continuous test automation execution on DevOps pipelines.
• Work with the Enterprise Quality Assurance Practise Lead on the metrics and reporting to communicate quality engineering practices.
• Ensure the defect management process is adhered to by the Software Quality & Test Engineers.
• Ensure artifacts are easily obtainable by storing all relevant artifacts in the repository
• Participate in the retrospective reviews and seek efficiencies which will ensure quicker delivery with high quality to our client(s).
• Encourage Peer reviews of the QA artifacts.
• Seek ongoing improvements in technical capabilities.
• Mentor the Engineers within the team to improve their technical capabilities.
• Provide input into the documentation of standards & quality practices for Quality engineering for the organization's current and future technological architecture.
• Provide input into performance management of team members (e.g. performance contracts, development plans, poor performance and improvement plans, and review).
• Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations.
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models, and systems through agile thinking.

Other

Qualifications Required:

• Relevant IT/ Testing qualification
• ISTQB

Other information applicable to the opportunity:

• Initial 12-month contract
• Location: Johannesburg (Sandton) – hybrid way of work
• Level/ years of experience: Lead (8+ years experience)

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What you’ll do:

• Use the automation framework and pre-defined test tools to inspect, analyse, design, develop and implement re-useable automated test assets to quality assure the solution and its architecture to ensure the overall quality of the solution.
• Good working knowledge of Front End and API automation as well as Performance Testing (NFT).
• Tools include Selenium/ Appium/ Healenium, RestAssured and JMeter.

Your Expertise:

• Intermediate - Senior (4+ years experience).
• Selenium/ Appium with Java (other tools are a bonus).
• BBD - Cucumber Framework.
• JMETER – Performance Testing.
• API – RestAssured.
• Comfortable working in an Agile environment.
• SQL/ Database experience.

Qualifications Required:

• Relevant IT/ Testing qualification
• ISTQB

Other

Other information applicable to the opportunity:

• Initial 12-month contract
• Location: Johannesburg (Sandton) - hybrid way of work

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What you’ll do:

• Manage service delivery in such a way that SLA and OLA requirements are exceeded and maximize customer satisfaction with the services delivered.
• Provide input and maintain critical operational processes and systems to support the business strategy.
• Monitor, manage, and ensure compliance with company policies and procedures, documented processes, and legislation to avoid financial and/or reputational risk to the organization.
• Demonstrate action taken to optimize resource utilization and/or cost-minimizing steps implemented.
• Ensure that all time material and billable work are invoiced according to the Client agreement.
• Conduct performance contracting including Performance and Personal.
• Development Plan within allocated time frames that will facilitate performance against deliverables.
• Facilitate the Recruitment process as per Company and/or BU-specific process.
• Conduct performance reviews and performance appraisals to measure performance and take corrective actions where necessary.
• Ensure sound leadership and management principles and processes are applied and aligned with the core values and best practices of the organization.
• Ensure that all HR Policies and Procedures as well as BU-specific procedures are adhered to, e.g. house rules, timekeeping, housekeeping, dress code, etc.
• Including conducting performance appraisals.
• Ensure that all forms (teams and own) required for processing are correct and submitted on time - Expense claims/Leave/Standby/all other documentation and provide complete Management reporting in the agreed format, accurately and timely.

Your Expertise:

• Function-related experience: 3 years
• Leading teams: 3 years
• Other experience: 3 years of senior management experience with strategy orientation

Qualifications Required:

• Grade 12
• ITIL Foundation 4 and ITIL Intermediate
• Soft Skills 
• Applicable Tertiary Qualification
• Project Management Certificate 
• MCSE / MCSA

Other

Other information applicable to the opportunity:

• Permanent position
• Location: Johannesburg (Sandton) 
• Work environment: Onsite
• Travel: Own Vehicle Essential

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What you’ll do:

• Consult with Cluster and BU leadership to remain abreast of current and future business needs.
• Utilise data analytics to support business insights.
• Liaise with LOB HR to inform Divisional and Group HR strategy and program development.
• Custodian of the total HR value chain.
• Manage the implementation/delivery of all HR value chain programs - workforce planning, organizational design, recruitment and selection, onboarding, reward, and recognition, change management, employee wellness, employee and industrial relations, payroll administration, training, and development, succession planning and offboarding – for all staff for the Division in line with group processes.
• Custodian of all disciplinary and grievance-related matters for the Division, including policy compliance, procedural compliance for disciplinary inquiries, and dispute resolution at external dispute resolution bodies (CCMA, Bargaining, council, DoEL) with all people-related legislative requirements including but not limited to skills development, employment equity, LRA, BCEA, OHSE, POPIA.
• Advise and coach cluster and BU leadership and management on all people-related matters.
• Influence and manage the Cluster and BU organizational design to achieve lean organizational structures that are in line with business strategy and revenue levels.

Your Expertise:

• 5-10 Years experience in the Human Resource field 
• 5-10 Years in a management/ supervisory role 

Qualifications Required:

• Degree or equivalent in Human Resource Management

Other

Other information applicable to the opportunity:

• Permanent position
• Location: Johannesburg (Midrand ) - Hybrid (minimum 2 days a week)

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What you’ll do:

• Assist users with day-to-day IT challenges.
• Setup and installation of IT equipment.
• Monitor and assist with IT security.
• Monitor network and IT infrastructure.
• General support of Unifrutti Staff.
• Assist Senior Engineers with day-to-day operations.
• Manage ad-hoc IT projects.

Your Expertise:

• Minimum 3 to 5 years experience in generalist IT practice.
• Exposure to IT Service Support, Computer Networks, Microsoft Server
• Infrastructure, and End User and Devices Support in a SMME business environment.
• General understanding of agricultural production and supply chain (advantageous).
• Extensive understanding of the portfolio of information technology.
• Relevant computer packages and system(s) currently in use by the company.
• General understanding of supporting systems in a multi-site environment.
• IT security best practices.
• IT industry trends.
• Reports to the Senior Engineer (Servers and Networks) with a dotted reporting line to the Senior Engineer (Software and Systems).
• General hours of work will be office-related, but post office hours may from time to time be applicable (Standby).
• Business travel may be occasionally expected.
• Peromnes 9/8 / Paterson C3/ C4.

Qualifications Required:

• Grade 12 (Umalusi national senior certificate)
• A+ | N+ (Minimum requirement)
• Microsoft MCSE or equivalent (will be advantageous)

Other

Personal Attributes:

• Achievement/Results driven
• Flexibility
• Initiative
• Responsible
• Integrity
• Stress tolerance (resilience)
• Verbal and written communication
• Conflict management
• Team leadership/ People management
• Attention to detail
• Problem-solving
• Quality service/work management
• Planning and Organising
• Analytical and critical thinker
• Information Seeking