Job Vacancies at Absa

Job Summary

The CIB Payments team is looking for an Automation Tester on a contract basis to design automation testing plans and develop automation test scripts for multiple technical products / services (pre, during & post deployment) in both ‘Run & Change’ contexts and align to chosen application testing frameworks & guidelines. Testing may apply to all or a combination of the following front-end, back-end, integration, performance, scalability and regression testing of solutions. This entails full responsibility for ensuring products are protected through quantifiable test coverage & metrics.

Initial 6 month contract

Job Description

Key critical requirements:

• Min 5 years' automation testing experience

• Testing Methodologies--- Functional Testing, Automation Testing, Front End Testing, API Testing

• Testing Framework—Cucumber, TestNG, Data-driven and Hybrid framework

• Framework --- Selenium framework, Rest Assured,  MQ Testing ( MQ knowledge is important)

• Programming language—JAVA (must be competent in Java 8 min)

• Build Tool - Maven

• Version Control - GITHUB,BITBUCKET

• CI/CD—Jenkins, Docker

• Agile Tools- Atlassian suit

• Attention to detail is critical

Key accountability: QA Engineering

• Proactively contribute & participate in the full solution development lifecycle as a member of a squad / multiple squads as a QA automation specialist engineer

• Actively participate in daily Scrum and project planning meetings.

• Participate and analyze test automation requirements during the requirements analysis phase of technical product & service development, maintenance & optimization (across tribes & squads) – using design specifications and technical documentation (e.g. Business Briefs, User Stories, Architecture & Integration documentation)

• Prepare QA & Automation testing documentation (planning, design, execution and sustainability)

• Develop automation test plans

• Develop and execute automated test scripts using various technologies (automated scripts, test harnesses, SQL scripts etc.)

• Perform various types of automation testing (regression, integration, black box, scalability)

• Evaluate automated test cases and analyse & report results

• Facilitate test plan / case reviews within squads

• Work with product engineers to evaluate software / solution quality & provide recommendations for improvement / enhancement

• Contribute to the design and selection of testing frameworks for business applications

• Deliver all automation & technical testing deliverables on time (always)

• Provide the required project / scrum related information / feedback on deliverables (e.g. progress, tracking, quality etc.)

• Conduct performance monitoring on applications / components of applications for which you’ve designed and executed test scripts / plans

• Produce quality and testing outcome metrics and reports

Initial 6 month contract

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

• Build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications & build capability in others to do the same. This includes but is not limited to applying critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver.

Job Description

DevOps

•  Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions
•  Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process
•  Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
•  Develop high quality software / application design and architecture in a test driven & domain driven / cross domain environment
•  Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
•  Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
•  Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
•  Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / Azure Devops or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
•  Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application. To do this, leverage e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic and distributed tracing like Zipkin/Jaeger etc.
•  Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
•  Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
•  Work with guilds and other technical SME’s to improve and evolve technical products and services
•  Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing (apply knowledge of stubbing tools e.g. wiremock, hoverfly etc.)
•  Apply version control and related concepts and techniques
•  Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines
•  Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
•  Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
•  Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc.
•  Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization

People
 Coach & mentor other engineers

•  Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
•  Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organization
•  Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team
•  Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

Risk & Governance

•  Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment)
•  Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
•  Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals)
•  Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
•  Deliver on time & on budget (always)

Experience working with AWS

• AWS Developer or Architect Associate preferred
• Java and JavaScript programming (Node.js)
• AWS Lambda development
• Experience with REST API development
• Experience with WSO2 API Manager preferred but not essential

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

• Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
• Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

As the threats and risks of Financial Crime increase in scale and complexity, Absa Group Financial Crime is responsible for ensuring that the Bank manages the risks of money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions and bribery and corruption and, in so doing, protects the Bank, its customers and its employees, as well as society at large, from the negative effects of financial crime. The Financial Crime function implements a Financial Crime Risk framework to meet the requirements of anti-money laundering, anti-terrorism, anti-bribery & corruption and economic sanctions laws and regulations.

As part of the holistic Intelligence and Surveillance function within Financial Crime, the Senior Manager: Special Investigations Unit will be responsible for initiating and managing comprehensive detailed, intelligence and data-driven investigations on our clients in South Africa and across ARO. As a senior member of the SIU team, he/she will also be responsible for initiating and managing certain streams within the unit’s book of work.

Job Description

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

Provide specialist advice and support in the implementation/development of operational planning and associated service delivery processes, methods and techniques.

Job Description

Drive Financial Targets: Maintain primary ownership of a portfolio of Growth Account clients, differentiated by the level of complexity of the client base | Relationship and Service Management: Actively develop strong client relationships. Conduct regular client visits in accordance with the Commercial Growth Account Value Proposition and initiate changes to ABB Product by providing input into product development to better service our clients | Manage Risk Assessment: Adhere to the bank's policies and procedures and ensure compliance. Take ultimate ownership of the portfolio's risk management by ensuring a good understanding of both the Bank's and the clients regulatory and compliance
environments. | Collaboration : Constantly seek to improve ways of working by challenging the status quo and supporting an
empowering climate within the team, sharing knowledge, experience, best practice and
providing constructive feedback as required. | : | : | : | :

Education

Bachelors Degree and Professional Qualifications: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

• The overall job purpose of an Asset Finance Analyst is to ensure that credit applications and dealer approvals are of an acceptable risk profile, appropriate quality and conforms to Absa Credit’s lending policy and that applications are timeously compiled and submitted for credit assessment. The Asset Finance Analyst also supports the front-end sales team’s short and long-term objectives and deals with a range of credit requests even in the absence of the Asset Finance Consultant.

Job Description

Accountability: Prepare Credit Applications 

•  Liaise with Business Development Officer (BDO) / Relationship Executive (RE), clients and other stakeholders to understand the process or requirements of credit applications for all clients concerned. 
•  Conduct research on the industry in which the client operates to understand the industries overall profitability, industry trends and client’s market standing relative to its competitors. 
•  Perform robust financial and non-financial analysis on the client that will support and underpin all new proposals for commercial asset finance in terms of the clients’ credit risk implications. 
•  Maker use of clients’ historical data for example, its financial statements to forecast the clients potential growth and sustainability. Conduct a sensitivity/scenario analysis to determine the impact that a change, in for example the economy, political situation, consumer demand, etc. will have on the clients’ financial health. 
•  Based on analysis conducted structure a commercial asset finance lending solution for the client, that will account for the potential threats to the client and that is within set credit limits and the Bank’s credit lending policies and appetite. 
•  Compile a proposal which summarizes the clients background and commercial asset finance needs, the research findings and the final recommendation on which commercial asset finance credit lending solution is best for the client, for the Credit Manager to approve in the interim and escalate further for the necessary approval. 
•  Upon reviewing the client’s financials submit recommendations of risk mitigating value added insurance products to be added onto the finance agreement. These products will mitigate the risk to both the bank and the client. 
•  Facilitate the commercial asset finance credit sanctioning process by responding to sanctioned enquiries and/or attending all relevant Credit Committee meetings in order to present and sponsor commercial asset finance credit applications that have been submitted under your signature. 
•  Produce relevant management information and manage exposures including the maintenance of the relevant systems. 
•  Pro-actively manage credit risks associated with the commercial asset finance importation transactions. 
•  Compile commercial asset finance reviews, amendments and new applications to the appropriate lending authorities. 
•  Request of valuations on movable and immovable assets which serve as security for commercial asset finance facilities. 
•  Liaise with BDO / RE, clients and other stakeholders to understand the process or requirements of credit applications for all clients concerned. 
•  Gather financial information (financial statements, cashflows) to support application from client where necessary. 
•  Utilize applicable software to assess client financial information and submit financials through to Remote Balance Sheet Extraction Unit (RBEU) prior to updating a WEBICA 
•  Include the product specialist report (needs, research findings and final recommendations) as provided by BDO and include in the WEBICA application. 
•  Monitor credit lines on a continuous basis and ensure formal reviews at specified time intervals or arrange extensions. 

 
Accountability: Relationship Management 

•   Liaise with RE and BDO consultants / or clients in order to achieve acceptable levels of approved credit facilities. 
•  Accompany RE / BDO Consultants to client visits in order to obtain relevant financial information and understanding for the credit process. 
•  Liaise with group legal and prepare relevant master agreements for signature by client. 
•  If the CAF BDO is unable to meet with the client, the BA must be responsible in signing the asset based finance credit agreements with clients and provide the necessary FAIS advice. 

 
Accountability: Compliance 
 

•  Ensure that all of the Bank’s credit policies and philosophy are fully complied with at all times, and that any policy breaches have been suitably addressed and mitigated against. 
•  Ensure adherence to the Absa Business Bank credit Policy and other relevant legislation, for example during the application preparation process. 
•  Ensure adherence to commercial asset finance target market criteria and that all deviations is suitably addressed and mitigated against.

Accountability: Reporting 

•  Communicate to the RE / BDO Consultants the credit committee’s decision either through e-mail or a written document, where required. 
•  Provide weekly status report to the Regional Managers indicating completed work, work in progress and pending credit applications, as well as approval ratios. 

• NQF level no. 6   Essential: 3 Years financial statement analysis in credit environment. 
•  Preferred: Credit Risk Assessment experience

Education

Higher Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

• Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
• Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

• Build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade Platform services & build capability in others to do the same. This includes but is not limited to applying critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems with high quality solutions & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver against business requirements at an optimal cost to serve.

Job Description

Platform Design, Deployment & Optimisation

•  Leads development test and platform management, translating customer, business and technical requirements into components of a service
•  Identify critical design areas, parameters and opportunity areas early in the development process and those that need improvement downstream
•  Stay ahead of the curve on leading practice platform technologies and Incorporate research into solution design and deployment processes
•  Develop lasting, innovative, simple platforms (including architecture when appropriate) to satisfy business and customer requirements and align with the long-term plan for the platform and broader technology objectives of: Self-service, testability, reusability, stability & resilience
•  Apply deep technical expertise, design thinking & problem solving skills to solve complex technical problems and enable the teams to deliver high quality solutions
•  Identify & Select the appropriate internal or external technologies to deliver the platform service
•  Applies excellent judgement and identifies and continuously improves on development practices
•  Develop solution design blueprints and validation collateral and facilitate alignment on solution blueprint and designs across the value chain
•  Lead the planning and design of the platform delivery system and define associated tools, hardware, processes, role assignments, dependencies, and documentation, resulting in a complete platform that meets KPIs
•  Lead the development and deployment lifecycle for ‘platform / platform components as a service’
•  Design & implement test automation and ensure reusability across the teams
•  Lead efforts to validate architectural, product or service solutions and innovations
•  Continually develop initiatives to reduce and optimize operational costs & increase strategic & operational efficiency through solution designs
•  Identify, develop & maintain platform standards and best practices, and drive adoption across multiple service teams
•  Define and implement SLA, OLA & quality metrics, best practices, and patterns to be applied across the platform
•  Strategically & operationally monitor Platform services to standard and proactively identify and mitigate risk
•  Use production performance monitoring and customer data to make / inform technical design and implementation decisions
•  Take full accountability for end-to-end platform quality, completeness and resulting user experience for the life of the product / service
•  Use & test the platform regularly to deeply understand it and discover & implement ways to improve it
•  Resolve issues throughout the life of the platform, including those outside of the immediate area of responsibility as needed; lead discussions with peers to take action to ensure the sustainable success of the platform
•  Provide leadership within the business by developing innovative methods for measuring the customer experience, and use this data to identify and drive platform improvements
•  Leverage systems & processes to measure, monitor and manage the performance of platforms ensuring ongoing optimization & cost to value for our businesses (think bank wide)
•  Translate performance data into insights for technical service & solution improvement and enhancement (across technical teams)
•  Align teams to service Improvement & innovation plan requirements and influence effective implementation
•  Lead the design of process or technology solutions that identify and resolve platform, system, deployment, and environmental issues.
•  Identify new and emerging practices for managing problems within the area and lead the adoption of new practices, across groups or disciplines with the aim of improving analytical capabilities
•  Lead the resolution of service issues by analyzing and prioritizing data from stakeholders and directing efforts or applying deep subject matter expertise to restore service with minimal disruption to the customer and business
•  Positively contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization where it makes sense to do so

Accountability: Financial & Cost Optimization, Risk & Governance

•  Take full accountability for delivering an optimal Platform Engineering cost model
•  Analyse operational cost data, identify cost-savings & efficiencies and influence the business to adopt these efficiencies across multiple service teams
•  Understand & contribute to the delivery of an optimal cost : serve of Platforms as a service
•  Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals)
•  Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
•  Hold accountability for all risk associated with platform engineering decision making
•  Apply & maintain all Group risk (e.g. Architecture, development etc.), governance, compliance & regulatory standards and frameworks
•  Update & or develop & maintain all application documentation as per the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks

Accountability: People

•  Cascade platform direction across teams and ensure team alignment on platform direction, performance objectives, plans and prioritization
•  Build / contribute to a high performance team environment & culture through self-directed teams by driving performance management & measurement that is aligned with agile working practices (including daily, weekly, etc. sprint routines, regular & honest feedback etc.)
•  Assume one stop shop accountability for the right people in the right teams to deliver on our platform strategy (always!)
•  Leverage coaching techniques in all squad related activity to drive a higher quality design and deployment of technical products and services
•  Seek out opportunities for collaboration across groups, ensure that cross-team commitments are set, and achieves scale in team work efforts by enabling the work of others
•  Proactively lead the implementation of agile practices, remove barriers to success and ensure seamless delivery in a continuously changing work environment
•  Identify and develop needed skills (self and others) in a way that is best-suited to the service design and that maximizes delivery efficiency
•  Coach & mentor other engineers & support engineering teams on technical solutions and problem resolution
•  Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
•  Cascade platform performance feedback and ensure capability development across teams to enable efficient & effective platform service delivery
•  Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

• Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
• Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised