Job Openings at Allan Gray Proprietary Limited

Job Responsibilities

• Provide excellent service to investors, potential investors and independent financial advisers via our various servicing channels, i.e. inbound calls and emails, face-to-face interactions.
• Build trust and confidence by explaining our investment philosophy and long-term approach to investing.
• Educate clients by sharing product and fund knowledge and empower them to make informed investment decisions.
• Take end-to-end ownership of transactions and ensure accurate record-keeping.
• Actively participate in the organisation’s drive towards continuous improvement by contributing to solutions to client problems.

Skills and Competencies

• This role is suited to individuals who are highly performance driven and seek new challenges.
• A growth mindset and resilience are key attributes to successfully navigate the ever-changing needs of clients and the financial services industry.
• The role requires high adaptability, vigour and agility.
• Our consultants need to be empathetic and client focused.  
• Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential.
• The ability to deal with complexity in a high-pressure environment, analytical thinking, attention to detail and problem-solving ability are crucial to ensure we always do what is best for clients.
• A genuine passion for people and a commitment to service excellence are vital to building long-term and meaningful relationships with our clients.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in Commerce or Business Science majoring in Finance, Investments, Economics, Mathematics or Statistics (this is not an exhaustive list).

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Job Responsibilities

• Assist in implementing best testing practices in the team. 
• Participate in defining the testing approach for each sprint. 
• Collaborate with Business Analysts to extract testing requirements for user stories. 
• Collaborate with other Testers in the team.
• Estimate effort for testing tasks.
• Manage and maintain test data. 
• Contribute to automation of tests in-sprint.
• Actively contribute to increasing measurable manual and automation coverage at all levels.
• Maintain existing test packs.
• Document and execute manual tests.
• Create, debug, verify, and maintain automated scripts.
• Review others' Merge requests.
• Report on test execution, risks, and issues.
• Debug test results.
• Collaborate closely with developers, identifying, logging, prioritizing, and verifying defects in a defect tracking system. 
• Follow and drive root cause analysis to prevent future defects, both in Prod and In-sprint.
• Contribute to the use of available tools and technology.
• Implement quality improvement initiatives (supported by Senior testing leadership).
• Actively manage risk. 
• Provide the PO with sign-off of for releases.
• Be first- and second-line support for production issues 24/7 on a rotational basis.

Skills and Experience Required

• You have experience testing data within databases, reports, and applications.
• You know how to read and write SQL.
• You have a practical understanding of CI/CD.
• You know where it is most effective for an automated test to live (Unit, Integration, Acceptance Testing, E2E). 
• You understand the benefits of manual testing but also the costs. 
• You are continually trying to improve your testing skills.  
• You have and can work under pressure. 
• You have solved complex testing issues. 
• You can drive testing tasks and manage expectations around them.
• You can understand requirements to come up with sufficient and measurable testing coverage.
• Experience in API integration testing.
• Understanding of microservice architecture.
• You can program.
• You have JavaScript skills.
• You have experience in other scripting languages.

Education

• Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems ideal, but solid experience will be considered as well.