Hot ICT Openings at Paracon

Key Responsibilities:

• Coach and prepare customers for successful rollouts of the applications. Ensure effective transfer of information learned in training to the work environment.
• Prepare design for all workflows and perform functionality tests on all implementation processes.
• Set up static data on client systems.
• Set up client specific reports according to their needs
• Studying and examining the client requirements of the company and creating solutions on the basis of that.
• Diagnosis, research and analyse customer issues and requests.
• Prioritizing and escalating issues when needed and keeping customers informed of progress. Develop and maintain implementation best practices, document procedures, standards, best practices, configuration settings and sequences.
• Identify gaps in functionality and work with product management to enhance our products.
• Serve as the lead contact for daily customer interaction and implementation activities.
• Discuss software program configurations of the company and ensure that they understand how to update and manage the system.
• Create and update product and training documentation

Essential Competencies:

• 3 year Degree in Finance

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Experience in the following tools are essential:

• Selenium
• Appium
• Healenium
• RestAssured and JMeter
• 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.
• Experience in testing SAP ERP and SAP Hana.
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Key Responsibilities:

• Liaise with Stakeholders across Group Technology
• Ensure stable solutions to stakeholders by delivering automated testing solutions and quality practices within agreed time lines and within agreed risk parameters.
• Provide advice to clients on quality practices.
• Build and foster deep relationship with Peers, Subject Matter Experts, Developers, Product
• Owner and other Stakeholders though honest communication which align to the Organisation’s Values.
• Build a deep understanding of the domain in order to contribute to the ongoing value proposition.
• Work closely with Quality Assurance Leads, Practise Leads, Developers, Architects, Product Owner and other Stakeholders to meet the expectations of our clients.
• Participate in the overall PI planning and the squad deliverables including capacity estimation and interdependencies.
• Obtain and review relevant artefacts from stakeholders (eg: technical landscape, architecture design, technology roadmaps).
• Create the Test Strategy, approach or plan and ensure alignment to 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.
• Encourage the Software Quality & Test Engineers to collaborate across squads to ensure efficient implementation of deliverables and ensure automation governance is adhered to by all.
• 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 re-usable and scalable.
• Challenging the business and technology solutions in alignment with client 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 artefacts are easy obtainable by storing all relevant artefacts 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 artefacts.
• Understand and manage own demand based on expected timelines articulated by the line-management and project expectations.
• Collaborate with Peers and industry experts to understand technical advances and its application within the Organisation’s eco-system.
• Seek ongoing improvements in technical capabilities.
• Ensure alignment of solution with emerging technologies and impact on Organisation’s technologies
• 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 organisation’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).
• Ensure the team dynamics are healthy (coaching and mentoring, assist with decision making, encourage self-organisation and assist with prioritisation).
• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values.
• 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 though agile thinking.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Commerce: Information Technology or Bachelor of Information Technology: Software Development or Bachelor of Science: Information Technology
• Certificate: Software Testing

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Key Responsibilities:

• Develop robust features in a self-sufficient way to a high technical standard
• Understanding the system architecture and technical goals of the product
• Follow the development process (source control, branching, testing, etc) without requiring assistance
• Actively troubleshooting issues and bugs using analytic software like Application Insights
• Proficient with essential technologies used on the product and learning the desired technologies
• Taking part in team rituals such as stand-ups, planning sessions, demos and retrospectives
• Taking part in team activities such as collaborative-development and code-reviews
• Taking part in cross-team activities such as knowledge-sharing and documentation
• Building relationships with all the teams in the Technology department

Non-negotiable requirements:

• Demonstrable experience in C#
• Demonstrable experience in Asp.Net (Core or MVC 5)
• Eagerness to learn Microsoft Dynamics 365, experience is beneficial
• Demonstrable experience in JavaScript/TypeScript
• Demonstrate experience in SQL (Microsoft SQL Server)

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Non-negotiable requirements:

Solid experience in the following technologies:

• Microservices
• Docker
• Java
• Angular
• NodeJS
• Spring boot
• Maven
• Kafka
• Experience with workflow tools like TIBCO AMX / Camundo an advantage
• Experience with rules engines like Drools and advantage

Essential Competencies

• Banking experience
• Advantageous if they have full stack experience (JavaScript)
• Preferably available immediately to two weeks

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Details of Role:

• You will be required to develop software and applications using mainly C#, ASP.NET and Client side technologies.
• Translate business feedback and requirements into working software solutions.
• Mentor more junior developers .
• Monitor code quality through peer code reviews.
• Lead on designs for software solutions and large projects.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.

Minimum Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a developer specialising in C#.Net
• Azure DevOps or GIT Experience
• .Net Core APIs
• .Net Core
• WCF web services
• JavaScript frameworks experience
• MVC
• Source control experience
• Docker or Kubernetes advantageous
• Knowledge of continuous integration
• Good understanding of Object Oriented design and coding

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Responsibilities:

• Make use of automation framework and pre-defined test tools to inspect, analyse, design, develop.
• Implement re-useable automated test assets to quality assure the solution and its architecture to ensure the overall quality of the solution.
• Ensure the test automation solution meets the architectural and development standards that are re-usable and scalable.
• Actively participate in the planning, estimation and sizing of products, features, stories to be delivered.
• Participate in the backlog grooming.
• Participate in the sprint planning, test estimation and acceptance criteria per story.
• Integration into and test automation execution on DevOps pipelines.
• Report status of testing to the team on a daily basis.
• Mentor the Software Test Engineers within the team.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in IT/ Computer Science
• 3 years automation testing experience
• System and interface testing principles and processes experience
• Performance testing experience
• 3 years Java development experience(J2EE)
• Knowledge of Object Oriented design
• Experience in working with Selenium, Appium, Soap UI
• SAP Hana/ SAP HCM experience