Let's Write Africa's Story Together!

Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.

Job Description

If you're looking for a company that offers great culture, leadership, learning opportunities, challenges, rewards and recognition, then look no further than Old Mutual.

Who are We?
Old Mutual is a premium African financial services organisation that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key market segments in 17 countries. The lines of business include Life and Savings, Property and Casualty, Asset Management, and Banking and Lending.
Old Mutual Finance was established in 2008 to provide unsecured lending products and services to the SA market. The business started with a staff compliment of 34 and has since grown to over 3000 staff with more than 300 branches nationally. Within our branches, we offer insurance, transactional banking, lending products, and servicing.

Why Join Old Mutual?
Enabling our people to be their exceptional best is at the core of what we do. We are rooted in our purpose of Championing Mutually Positive Futures Every Day and believe that a great customer experience is anchored in a great employee experience.
We will provide you with a holistic experience to realise and unleash your potential.

What we Offer:
In partnership with you, we promise to challenge and help you grow in your career through a personalised development plan. We strive to create and expose our people to diverse learning opportunities through formal and informal learning. Most importantly you work in diverse teams made up of enthusiastic people who strive for excellence.

The Opportunity:

Old Mutual Finance is currently seeking to hire a Senior Quality Engineer.  This is a nationally based role that forms part of the Old Mutual Finance Information Technology Team.

In This Role, You will get to:

Lead a Test Team, including coaching and mentoring in an Agile Environment.

Create automation testing scripts using in-house developed tools.

Enhance automation test frameworks.

Design test cases and perform testing of applications.

Identify, document, and track bugs.

Perform re-testing when bugs are resolved.

Perform regression testing when needed.

Understanding of UI and backend testing.

Perform initial analysis for technical issues and work closely with developers to reproduce and solve problems.

Work within an agile environment.

Execute automation tests via Jenkins.

IT Service Delivery

Completes Test Strategy and has a high-level understanding of all projects.

Manages testing, including achievement of milestones and deliverables.

Provides quality control and improvement of processes and outputs.

Undertakes operational and technical aspects of processing information, data evaluation, and analysis.

Reporting

Manages effective communication with all stakeholders.

Keep all stakeholders updated on the outcome of test execution results.

Risk Management

Identifies any tools needed to meet testing deliverables.

Identifies impending risks that may compromise the achievement of deliverables and initiates steps to mitigate risk.

Stakeholder Management

Builds and maintains relationships with relevant internal/external stakeholders.

Understands the requirements and where applicable, liaises, communicates, and provides assistance.

Team Effectiveness

Ensures SDLC Testing component is met.

Leads test team, including coaching and mentoring.

Manages the testing component within agreed timetables.

Provides strategic direction, undertakes test planning, scopes the testing required, estimates the effort and duration of testing, and determines resource and environment requirements.

Technical Consultation

Contributes knowledge and expertise where required for peer review and to projects being undertaken by other business units.

What You Will Need To Succeed:

A Matric or Grade 12 equivalent and a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar role, and must have built an automation test framework before.

ISTQB Foundations certification.

Relevant tertiary qualification advantageous.

Agile certification is advantageous.

Object Orientated Programming knowledge is advantageous.

Experience and skills are required in the following:

Postman

Test case creation, execution, and reporting

Defect management

Execute automation tests via Jenkins

Regression Testing

Functional Testing

Smoke Testing

Java coding

TestNG

Selenium

Maven

Jenkins

Allure Reports

Git

Advantageous skills:

Locust Performance Tool

Docker

Kubernetes

BrowserStack

Virtual Machines

PractiTest

Jira

The time is now to find your greatness by becoming part of a company where potential is revealed and growth is inevitable.

Skills

Education

Closing Date

19 November 2024

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

Old Mutual Limited is pro-vaccination and encourages its workforce to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

All prospective employees are required to disclose their vaccination status as part of the recruitment process.

Please refer to the Old Mutual’s Covid-19 vaccination policy for further detail. Kindly note that Old Mutual reserves the right to reinstate the requirement to vaccinate at any point if it is of the view that it is imperative to do so.

The Old Mutual Story!