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Job Title:

Product Owner

Business Unit:

CIB TXB

Duration:

12 Months

Work Location:

Team is based in JHB and Cape Town - However open to location .

More about the Area & Team:

We are a diverse, dynamic, self-starting team made up out of mostly senior experts in our fields.

We collaborate internally and with external teams in order to deliver solutions for our customer's complex problems.

More about the project:

The team is responsible for making cross boarder collections by leveraging distributed ledger (Blockchain) and cloud-based (AWS) technologies.

The specific problems that will be addressed by this position involves building out Api’s and potentially getting involved with some UI (Angular) development as well.

At a later stage there will also be a component that involves maintaining and possibly extending smart contracts and integrations with web3, experience not required however beneficial.

Job Description / Responsibilities:

Ideally looking for someone with a product sense, product execution and analytics, leadership, technical know-how, blockchain knowledge and learnability. They need to be adaptable to change.

As a Product Owner, you will play a pivotal role in driving the development and success of IT products within the organization.

You will act as the bridge between business stakeholders and the development team, defining product features, prioritizing tasks, and ensuring that the IT products meet business objectives and user needs. Your expertise will be crucial in delivering high-quality, efficient, and user-friendly IT solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

Product Vision: Define and communicate the long-term vision and goals for IT products, aligning them with the organization's overall strategic objectives.

Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with business stakeholders, end-users, and cross-functional teams to gather requirements, understand their needs, and prioritize feature requests.

Product Backlog Management: Create, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring it is well-organized and reflects the most valuable and urgent tasks.

User Story Development: Write clear and concise user stories, acceptance criteria, and other relevant documentation to guide the development team.

Release Planning: Collaborate with the development team to plan and prioritize product releases, taking into consideration resource constraints and business priorities.

Sprint Planning: Participate in sprint planning meetings, provide input on sprint goals, and help resolve any questions or issues raised by the development team.

Continuous Improvement: Continuously monitor and evaluate the performance of IT products, gather feedback, and make data-driven decisions to improve product quality and user satisfaction.

Risk Management: Identify and manage risks associated with product development, including technical challenges, resource constraints, and changes in business priorities.

Quality Assurance: Work closely with the QA team to ensure that the product meets quality standards and functional requirements.

Documentation: Maintain up-to-date product documentation, including user guides, release notes, and process flows.

Training and Support: Provide training and support to end-users and internal stakeholders to ensure they can effectively use and benefit from the IT products.

Market Research: Stay informed about industry trends, competitors, and emerging technologies to make informed product decisions.

This Product Owner role is critical for ensuring that IT products align with the organization's strategic goals and meet the needs of both business stakeholders and end-users. The successful candidate will have a blend of technical knowledge, project management skills, and a customer-centric mindset to drive the development of innovative and valuable IT solutions.

Background and experience required:

• 5 years CIB Transactional Banking Experience
• 5 years financial industry experience
• 5 Years Product Owner  experience

Must-have Skills (Mandatory Skills):

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field (Master's degree preferred).
• Proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role in IT product development.
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies, such as Scrum and Kanban.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to effectively work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Analytical mindset and the ability to make data-driven decisions.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Familiarity with project management tools and software development methodologies.
• Knowledge of IT infrastructure, software development processes, and technology trends.
• Agile or Scrum certification.
• Blockchain (DLT) knowledge.
• FX or digital asset knowledge.
• Must have financial services experience.

Beneficial Skills (Desired Skills):

• Blockchain (DLT) knowledge
• FX or digital asset knowledge.

Job Title:

Mobile QA Engineer

Duration:

12 Months

Work Location:

Cape Town based role

Job Description:

• Define and implement test automation strategy including roadmap, tools, framework & approach.
• Implement, maintain, and improve test automation frameworks.
• Actively work with development and infrastructure teams for integrating test automation as an integral part of Continuous delivery pipeline
• Provide leadership, guidance, training and mentoring to implement test automation within the Mobile Team
• Pro-actively seek to make continuous improvements to test coverage, execution, and automation.
• Evaluate, select, and formulate best usage of test automation tools for different purposes.
• Conduct manual functional testing of the Mobile App

Our Solution:

• Build up the automation test Framework.

Requirements:

• Automation using Appium for iOS and Android platforms.
• Appium for automating Mobile Apps
• Proven experience in defining and operationalization of test automation strategy.
• Proven experience in creating and implementing test automation frameworks for large-scale systems in agile development environment.
• Hands-on test automation experience, in a professional software development environment
• In-depth knowledge of a variety of testing techniques and methodologies
• A solid understanding of test-driven development, continuous integration, continuous delivery both in principle and in practice
• Expertise of agile and waterfall testing methodologies
• Experience in both Unit and Integration testing needs with exposure to data virtualization tools.
• Experience in several test automation frameworks, e.g., Selenium, Appium
• Experience with Report Portal for reporting purposes
• Demonstrated experience developing high quality test strategies and test execution specific focus on cross browser/OS and cross device testing.
• Ability to create good acceptance and integration test automation scripts and integrate with Continuous integration and code coverage tools to ensure 80% or higher code coverage.
• Excellent organization, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in an unstructured, fast-paced environment.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with great attention to detail, critical thinking, solid communication, and proven leadership skills - with the ability to lead multiple test paths simultaneously.

Technical skills and experience required:

• Manual testing 3-5 years
•  Automation testing 3-5 years
• Appium – 3- 5 years’ experience
• Understand coding C# -3-5 years.
• Selenium - 3- 5years
• Java experience 3-5 years

Beneficial skills

• Creating a bespoke automation framework

Applicant Questions

1. Has the candidate worked with multiple programing languages i.e. C#, Java, Python, etc. 
2. Has the candidate built their own test automation framework from scratch. Not only using a licensed test automation tool or just scripting test cases using an existing framework in the company.
3. Has the candidate used version control, repository, and branching strategy tools like GitHub
4. Has the candidate worked in both manual and automation testing
5. Has the candidate worked with mobile automation in both/either android or IOS

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Job Title:

Lead Solutions Analyst

Industry/Client:

Banking

Duration:

6 months contract

Work Location:

Johannesburg

Job Description:

• Solution/System Analyst required to Analyse the As-Is System and its interfaces
• Identify and engage with Interfacing systems in terms of solution design and documenting the processes.
• Translate elicited business requirements into user story format that is immediately usable for DevOps teams
• Providing the Development team with solution design documents and specifications (User Stories and Test Cases)
• Liaison between various Business and System Stakeholders.
• Work as part of a DevOps team, apply analysis & testing tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements into user stories.
• Following this analysis, work collaboratively within squads during design & delivery activity with a specific focus on testing.
• Support and coordinate production implementation and hyper care monitoring activities
• Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and Company Policies and Policy Standards.
• Understand and manage risks and risk events (incidents) relevant to the role.

More about the BU Team:

SWIFT CBPR+ protocol implementation project which is an Industry project and has reputational implications for the bank in the international swift community as well as a requirement for Cloud AWS expertise.

How we stay relevant:

Is by working as part of a DevOps team, leverage specialist analysis & testing tools, frameworks, techniques and practice to elicit, define and organize business requirements. Translate & document business requirements into user stories & specifications (Full Stack, Cross System) detailing integration points, business & associated risk / opportunities to be realized. And following this analysis, work collaboratively within squads during design & delivery activity including assuming responsibility for manual application testing processes, frameworks & outcomes..

Requirements:

• Min 5 years Systems/ Solution Analyst experience
• Experience in working with multidisciplinary teams
• Experience in Agile Methodology & working embedded within an Agile team / teams (ability to Define and write detailed User Stories)
• Information Systems Analyst certification from Institute for the Certification of Computing Professionals (beneficial)
• Banking domain experience essential
• Expertise in Systems Design & Integration
• Testing Certification (beneficial)
• Process Mapping Techniques (data mapping)
• Presentation Skills
• Ability to write Java code (beneficial)
• Strong SQL Skills
• Strong knowledge of integration between systems (MQ, REST, SOAP, File)

Technical skills and experience required:

Experience in Agile Methodology & working embedded within an Agile team / teams (ability to Define and write detailed User Stories)

Strong knowledge of integration between systems (MQ, REST, SOAP, File)

Expertise in Systems Design & Integration

Testing Certification (beneficial)

Process Mapping Techniques (data mapping)

Presentation Skills

Ability to write Java code (beneficial)

Strong SQL Skills

Methodologies required (Mandatory Skills):

Min 5 years Systems/ Solution Analyst experience

Experience in working with multidisciplinary teams

Experience in Agile Methodology & working embedded within an Agile team / teams (ability to Define and write detailed User Stories)

Banking domain experience essential

Beneficial Skills (Desired Skills):

Information Systems Analyst certification from Institute for the Certification of Computing Professionals (beneficial)

Expertise in Systems Design & Integration

Testing Certification (beneficial)

Mandatory Skills:

Min 5 years Systems/ Solution Analyst experience Experience in working with multidisciplinary teams Experience in Agile Methodology & working embedded within an Agile team / teams (ability to Define and write detailed User Stories) Banking domain experience essential

Desired Skills:

Information Systems Analyst certification from Institute for the Certification of Computing Professionals (beneficial)

Expertise in Systems Design & Integration Testing Certification (beneficial)

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Job Title:

Azure Consultant

Industry/Client:

Banking Industry

Duration:

6 Months Contract

Work Location:

Johannesburg CBD – Hybrid

Job Description Summary:

• We are seeking an experienced Azure Consultant with expertise in Microsoft Intune to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for providing consultation and solutions related to Azure cloud services and Intune, ensuring the effective management and security of devices and applications.
• We will be migrating all packages from SCCM to Intune.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with clients to understand their business requirements and provide expert advice on leveraging Azure and Intune for device management, application deployment, and security.
• Design, implement, and manage Azure and Intune solutions to meet specific organizational needs, including device provisioning, app deployment, and conditional access policies.
• Focus on creating packages in Intune
• Moving Workloads from SCCM to Intune
• Ensuring SCCM packages can either be transferred or re-created in Intune
• Assist in the migration of on-premises infrastructure and services to the Azure cloud, ensuring a seamless transition and minimal disruption.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance on implementing security measures and compliance standards within Azure and Intune environments.
• Willingness to operate long hours and overtime.
• Project driven with strict timelines

Preferred Education/Qualifications:

• Proven experience as an Azure Consultant with a focus on Microsoft Intune.
• Strong knowledge of Azure cloud services, including Azure Active Directory, Azure Security Center, and Azure Automation.
• Experience with planning, implementing, and managing Intune for device and application management.
• Familiarity with identity and access management concepts and integration with Azure AD and Intune.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate technical solutions effectively to non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated project management skills and the ability to work independently or as part of a team.
• Strong SCCM Skills

Preferred Certification:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Microsoft Certified: Modern Desktop Administrator Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals
• Microsoft Certified: Intune and Microsoft 365 Mobility Fundamentals