Recruitment Vacancies at Paracon

Details of Role

• Write, develop and test high-quality codes.
• Peer review work.
• Mentor more junior developers.
• Lead on designs for software solutions and large projects.

Essential Competencies

• Proven formal software development experience.
• Must be technically strong with a passion for coding.
• Good understanding of Object Oriented design and coding.
• Good knowledge of SQL Server (and relevant ORM such as Entity Framework).
• Experienced using source control.
• Be able to translate business feedback and requirements into working software solutions.
• Location & Type
• Remote – Anywhere in SA.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or proven experience base equivalent.
• 9+ years’ Full-stack experience in systems design and coding in Microsoft .NET, .NET Core and C#.
• Solid experience with C# and ASP.Net.
• Excellent knowledge of web client-side technologies.
• JavaScript (Angular/React/Vue/JavaScript framework).
• Typescript.
• CSS.
• Experience in working on Kubernetes, Cloud, AWS or AZURE.

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Details of Role:

• Analysing business requirements to propose the best possible system solutions.
• Liaising with Actuaries to understand products and calculations.
• Investigating calculation errors and Process failures on system.
• Writing functional specifications on product processes or calculations.
• Developing testing tools in Excel, VB, Python.
• Testing product processes and calculations.
• Liaising with programmers to resolve system issues.
• Investigating data reports to identify potential data and system errors.
• Managing own performance and development.
• Ensuring effective and consistent service delivery and support to both internal and external clients in line with the Company Values and Treating Customers Fairly Principles.
• Strong mathematical skills
• Decision making
• Very strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Initiate action
• Deliver results
• Effective communication

Location:

• Hybrid

Minimum Requirements:

• Matric/Grade 12
• Degree in Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Computer Science
• 3-8 years overall experience
• Experience in the Life Insurance Industry

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• Creating and updating test cases to meet the business functional requirements using HPALM/QC
• Verifying the accuracy and credibility of data from ETL Process, staging tables, BI reports and dashboards
• Performing manual execution of the test cases within all test cycles (Unit, System Integration, UAT, Regression, Smoke)
• Performing manual execution to verify dashboard customization requirements. Performing load and performance test to ensure that data flows and mapping are not corrupted.
• Performing manual execution to verify that logs are updated.
• Performing manual execution to verify that reports generated are accurate
• Perform back-end (database) testing using complex SQL queries on Oracle and SQL Server databases.
• Capturing and demonstrating test execution business end users for approval
• Making use of defect tracking tools such as JIRA to log, manage, resolve, and report on bugs/defects.
• Participating in scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, retro etc.
• Providing progress feedback in daily stand-up meetings

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of solid software testing experience
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent qualifications
• ISTQB Certification advantageous
• Advanced skills in MS Excel, formulas, and pivot tables
• Experience working with JIRA, Confluence, and other collaborative tools advantageous.
• Experience with Business Intelligence (BI) reports like Microsoft Power BI or Tableau
• Experience in complex ETL mappings, mapplets and complex transformations testing.
• Exposure to end-to-end data validation for ETL and BI systems
• Exposure to DB tools like Toad/PL SQL developer/SQL Plus/SQL server management studio
• Experience in Business Intelligence testing in various reports
• Strong in SQL scripting, data issues root cause analysis skills and Data Warehousing concepts
• Strong Data warehouse end to end and data completeness testing experience.
• Strong Ability to work within team following different development methodologies/ hybrid.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

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Key Responsibilities:

• Onsite support for daily incident resolution and service request fulfilment.
• Use ISM Tool to complete daily operational tasks in a methodical and timeous manner meeting SLAs.
• Commissioning and decommissioning of the domain and non-domain machines using SCCM in compliance with standard procedures.
• Software deployment using SCCM.
• Plan, coordinate and assist with Employee Desk moves.
• Be willing to work After Hours due to standby support or project-related tasks.
• Document procedures and troubleshooting.
• Audio-visual / video conferencing support.
• Printer support.
• Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) support.

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum of 3 years’ Desktop Support experience
• Matric
• Technical Qualifications (e.g. Microsoft / CompTIA / SCCM / Azure / AWS)

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Key Responsibilities:

• Finance Business Analysis experience and qualifications
• Finance / Accounting / Business / Process / Data analysis
• Requirements Documentation
• Stakeholder management and communication skills
• Execution to business analysis methodology
• Identify, refine, clarify, and define the business need
• Able to assist with project requirements planning
• Applying and anticipating technical expertise
• Process documentation
• Business Requirements specification
• Impact Assessment
• Ad-hoc reporting
• Process and data integrity
• Project Skills
• Strong Business Analytic Skills
• Balance Sheet Reconciliation
• Execution and implementation of identified solutions and processes
• Essential Competencies:
• Insurance or Financial Services experience or finance/financial reporting processes and systems
• Solid understanding of Finance Business Processes
• Financial accounting / Financial reporting capability
• Strong account reconciliation skills
• Problem solving ability
• Cost Allocations and Product Fund accounting understanding preferable
• Finance qualification & background
• Business Analysis Diploma
• Knowledge of the insurance industry and products
• Business analysis and project exposure is essential.
• Experience in mapping out complex business processes
• Exposure to a complex organisational structure at Group level
• CA(SA) / CIMA – beneficial
• Location & Type e.g. Remote/ Hybrid:
• Western Cape, Cape Town (Hybrid)

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or related
• 5+ Working Years’ experience

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Key Responsibilities

• Maintains the Test Approach with support and guidance.
• Define Test Plans in collaboration of various stakeholders.
• Manages all required test demand and forecasting in test team.
• Recruits & allocates testers according to demand.
• Manage resources & allocations, assists to scope & plan test effort.
• Estimates & reports issued from Test Team.
• Escalate test related Issues to management, reports on overall progress.
• Responsible for quality control.
• Report on quality metrics, highlighting trends and issues and driving this forward towards continuous incremental improvements.
• Monitor and report on test progress.
• Ensuring the proper use of testing tools and adherence to test processes and methodologies.
• Ensuring the team follows testing standards, guidelines, and testing methodology as specified in the testing approach.

Location & Type

•   Cape Town (Hybrid)

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum of 6 years experience as a Test Manager
• 5 years experience in creating test plans, test strategies, roadmaps, methodologies and frameworks
• Regression Testing, System Integration Testing, Functionality testing
• 5 plus years’ experience in SQL
• 5 years experience with Automated testing (Development, Execution, Analysis and Reporting)

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Key Responsibilities:

Working within the Agile Squads to deliver Business systems application solutions by:

• Determine system/component logical relationship and interdependencies when developing or resolving incidents.
• Understand the impact of the proposed solution and recommend remedial action.
• Solution Design.
• Carryout problem/incident and requirements analysis.
• Production Support and Standby.
• Develop Real-time Solutions.
• Ensure technological integration across applications.
• Documentation and Specification Review.
• Software Development and Unit Testing.
• Code Implementation and Configuration.
• Analyse level of impact and risk on project.
• Post Implementation Quality Assurance.
• Establish and maintain relationships with peers and other stakeholders.
• Liaise and or follow up incidents with the vendor and other stakeholders.
• See to successful signoff of the test pack on the applicable platforms.
• Implement learning’s from post-mortem meetings.
• Deliver work products according to the agreed timelines and within agreed budget.
• Escalate non-compliance to relevant stakeholders.
• Provide consulting on specific technologies.
• Recommend and publish technical solutions.
• Interpret the business requirements in order to create technical specifications with an in-depth understanding of impacts across other product areas, recommend and publish technical solutions (high level and or detailed).
• Delivered systems, products and/or projects which contributed to improved client service.
• Review required documents.
• Deliver impact analysis (IA) artefact including effort estimation and timelines.
• Assign level of impact and risk.
• Consider industry trends in technical design areas.

Essential Competencies

• Knowledge of FICO Blaze an advantage
• Knowledge of IBM API Connect an advantage
• Knowledge of ETL an advantage
• Ab Initio development experience an advantage
• Microsoft Office
• Principles of project management
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Research methodology
• Business writing skills
• Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
• Service orientated Architecture (SOA)
• Knowledge across multiple technologies
• Single Operating system
• IT Architecture
• Modelling (ARIS /UML)
• Joint application development
• Testing principles and processes
• Relevant development tools
• Systems application Design
• Information Technology concepts
• Banking procedures Technical
• Relevant design tools
• Systems integration

Location & Type e.g. Remote/ Hybrid:

• Johannesburg, Gauteng (Hybrid)

Minimum Requirements:

• 5 -10 years’ experience in programming (preferably BPEL Development)
• Minimum 5 years’ IBM Process Server 8.5
• 5 years’ experience in DataPower Development will be an advantage
• Minimum 2 years Spring Framework experience an advantage
• Minimum 5 years JPA experience and knowledge of ORM Technologies
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in DevOps (Azure DevOps preferable) – Jenkins, Urban Code, Docker
• Minimum 5 years’ experience building SOAP and Restful Webservices
• Minimum 5 years’ experience code management using version control system such as Git 
• Minimum 5 years JAVA Development experience
• Minimum 5 years Database SQL Development experience (preferably in DB2)
• Computer Science, IT)/ Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degree
• Systems Development/Coding/Programming – 5 years
• Technical Impact, analysis and design exposure – 3 Years
• Java, Spring, ORM, BPEL, SOA, Agile – 3 Years

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Key Responsibilities:

• The design, specification, coding, testing, and documenting of the system along with team members.
• Leading part time contractors to build and merge system enhancements.
• Providing support to production and customer support services.
• Assisting colleagues in the investigation of software and system related problems on existing and new products or solutions.

Essential Competencies:

• At least 5 years work experience with the following:
• 5 years Java development (version 8 and/or 17)
• 3 years Java Spring development
• 3 years MVC Web development
• 3 years HTML/CSS/Angular/JavaScript development
• Experience with SDLC
• Solid experience building and consuming REST / Web / Micro-services integrations
• Maven dependency management
• Solid experience with SQL database design, querying and processing
• Familiarity with Linux environments
• GIT version control

Location & Type e.g. Remote/ Hybrid:

• Western Cape, Cape Town (Hybrid)

Minimum Requirements:

• A Degree or Diploma in Information Systems or Computer Science

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Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the elicitation of business and product rules during the analysis phase of the enhancement and minor projects
• Compass system and configuration and the quality of testing outputs and deliverables
• Decomposing complex problems into simple Compass solutions
• Configure rules according to business, product and legislate rules
• Produce written functional requirement specifications for various system around Compass enhancements
• Effectively testing and test matrix for all requirements after development.
• Generate and review test packs and execute test cases.
• Root cause analysis of bugs to reduce and eliminate future risk.

Location & Type

•   Johannesburg/ Hybrid working model

Minimum Requirements:

• 8 years business analysis experience
• 5 years Compass experience essential
• Compass Configuration skills essential
• Linked investment structured product knowledge
• Good understanding of Best practices

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Details of Role:

• Perform incremental testing actions on code, processes, and deployments.
• Create flows in the Microsoft Low Code No Code environment.
• Logic App workflow
• Support production outages, upgrades.
• Analyse current Power Platform environment
• Define governance models

Location & Type

•   Cape Town/ Hybrid working model

Minimum Requirements:

• Azure integration experience
• Database management and implementation experience
• System Engineering experience
• Microsoft certifications in Azure