Website FirstRand Corporate Centre
The FirstRand Corporate Centre houses many of the critical functions required by a large and complex financial services group. The Corporate Centre’s stakeholders are external, such as regulators, shareholders, global developmental institutions and government; and also internal, mainly the market-leading businesses that service the group’s customers.
Are you someone who can:
Script/Tests Analysis:
- Proficiently analyse both new and existing Automation scripts.
- Identify areas for improvement or maintenance in existing scripts.
- Create test cases based on Business Requirement Specifications.
Automation Scripting:
- Quickly adapt to prescribed standards and usage of our internal Framework.
- Familiarize yourself with all defined interaction points in the framework, namely (Legacy Application, REST, API, Selenium, SOAP, IMS, OCEP).
- Design robust, scalable, and maintainable automation scripts covering various aspects of the System Under Test.
- Review existing processes and suggest innovative ideas to improve and streamline processes to drive efficiencies and minimise redundancy scripts
Stakeholder Communication:
- Collaborate effectively with stakeholders (QA, Infrastructure, Architecture, Developers, Business).
- Understand the SUT from a business perspective.
- Maintain open communication with product owners and business analysts to gather relevant information on requirements.
Issue Resolution and Analysis:
- Proactively collaborate with business, stakeholders, and developers to ensure quicker turnaround time for fixes.
- Participate in root cause analysis and troubleshooting.
- Provide detailed information to facilitate timely issue resolution.
Leadership Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate leadership qualities.
- Solve problems effectively.
- Communicate efficiently.
- Work closely with the assigned Technical Team Lead.
- Ensure the quality and stability of testing processes.
Desired Experience:
You will be an ideal candidate if you:
- JAVA – adv.. OCA
- Springboot
- Database Management: SQL basics
- Front-end Application Navigation
- API Testing (using tools like Postman and SOAPUI)
- API Documentation (including Swagger docs)
- Monitoring Tools (Splunk, Grafana)
- CI/CD Pipelines (Jenkins/Bamboo)
- Micro Focus ALM Octane usage
- Git and Bitbucket knowledge
- IntelliJ (IDE) Usage
- Understanding of Script Datasheets
- Data Driven Framework
- Knowledge of OCEP Services
- Data Preparation and understanding
- Agile Methodology
We can be a match if you are:
- Curious & courageous – you’re driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you’re brave enough to
- Obsessed with mastery – you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it