Absa Group Limited (Absa) has forged a new way of getting things done, driven by bravery and passion, with the readiness to realise the possibilities on our continent and beyond. 

We’re a truly African brand, inspired by the people we serve in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We also have representative offices in Namibia and Nigeria, as well as insurance operations in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia.  

Absa Group

Bring your possibility to life! Define your career with us

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Design automation testing plans and develop automation test scripts for multiple technical products / services (pre, during &amp; post deployment) in both Data creation and system testing contexts and align to chosen application testing frameworks &amp; 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 &amp; metrics

• Proactively contribute &amp; participate in the full solution development lifecycle as a member of a squad / multiple squads as an 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 &amp; service development, maintenance &amp; optimization (across tribes &amp; squads) – using design specifications and technical documentation (e.g. Business Briefs, User Stories, Architecture &amp; Integration documentation)• Prepare QA &amp; 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 &amp; report results• Facilitate test plan / case reviews within squads• Work with product engineers to evaluate software / solution quality &amp; provide recommendations for improvement / enhancement• Contribute to the design and selection of testing frameworks for business applications• Deliver all automation &amp; 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

DevOps• Follow engineering best practices and continuously improve on engineering knowledge to successfully shift our QA capability forward• Leverage coding language understanding &amp; expertise to deploy testing requirements for specific products / services• Understand the full technical solution that is being tested – show interest and capability to run the technical solution &amp; the ability to test the viability of the code being developed• Shift from testing features to supporting &amp; being accountable for full product delivery

Risk &amp; Governance• Ensure compliance with technical risk and governance requirements• Ensure work is compliant with automation testing frameworks and standards• Proactively identify and communicate risks ahead of need• Participate in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Incident Management processes as required and implement mitigating actions

People• Participate in peer reviews &amp; continuously develop automation testing awareness &amp; capability across squadsEducation and experience required• B-Degree or equivalent technical qualification• Prior programming work experience.• Experience within the Banking Sector• Experience with performance engineering and load testing is a huge plus.• Experience &amp; expertise (Basic) in coding languages such as Java, C# and some experience- in software engineering / development• Well versed in web services paradigms such as REST and protocols such as HTTP.• Experience working on web applications and/or web-based technologies.• Proficient in multiple forms of test approaches for application testing including functional, cross-browser compatibility, mobile, web service, and integration testing etc..• Proficient in UNIX/Linux environments and shell scripting.• Proficient in basic SQL operations such as joins and views.• Experience with SOAP, REST, RPC or other client-server API testing.• Experience in TFS, JIRA, and Confluence a plus.• Experience in Git or other source code management systems.• Comfortable in AGILE development environments and cross-functional team structures.• Experience with end-to-end SDLC, testing methodologies and test phases, including unit, assembly, system, integration, regression testing.• Strong work ethic and integrity.• Strong analytical abilities, troubleshooting skills, and attention to detail.• Demonstrated ability aptitude in logical and analytical thinking, as well as display strong problem solving skills.• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields, or equivalent work experience

Competencies: (Maximum of 8 competencies)• Examining Information• Interpreting Data• Developing Expertise• Challenging Ideas• Showing Composure• Meeting Timescales• Producing Output

Specialist QA Engineer

Work embedded as a member of squad OR; across multiple squads to produce, test, document and review algorithms &amp; data specific source code that supports the deployment &amp; optimisation of data retrieval, processing, storage and distribution for a business area.

RTF IT provides IT expertise to our customers. We enhance and support the Group’s Regulatory Reporting framework providing toolsets for data, reporting and front-end portal capabilities to enhance Business&nbsp;Intelligence across the RTF businesses. RTF is the technology partner supporting Credit Risk, Treasury, Finance, Regulatory Reporting, Data and Business Intelligence. We handle the consumption of the Bank’s data for calculation of risk metrics and making the outputs available to business and regulators. Our task is the successful delivery of innovative solutions that enable business efficiency

Education and experience required for the Hadoop Product Engineer role:

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Hadoop Product Engineer

The main purpose of the job is to perform the role as Lead ETL Developer for Absa Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB). You will be responsible for participating and contributing to migrating an existing application to Hadoop and then enhancing this system as well as implementing new business requirements.

Preference given to the following additional skill-set

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

Lead ETL Hadoop Developer

As part of the CIB Global Markets Data Support /Engineering team, you will be involved in the support of Market Data systems used by traders, as well as being involved in projects such as systems upgrades and the delivery of new services. Working closely with other teams throughout the business to help resolve and prevent issues that may impact the use of Market Data systems.This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with an in-depth understanding of Market Data to join an area that has been highlighted as fundamental to the performance of the business.

Application Monitoring &amp; Performance Management

Specialist Support Engineer - Market Data

Bring your possibility to life! Define your career with usWith over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.Job SummaryApply critical thinking &amp; problem solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle &amp; quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.Job Description

EducationBachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Java Developer

Build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications &amp; 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 &amp; leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver.

Accountability: 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 &amp; domain driven / cross domain environment • Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions • Ensure designs &amp; solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability &amp; resilience • Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions • Create &amp; Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring &amp; 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 &amp; 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 &amp; development process to Group Architecture, Security &amp; Infrastructure guidelines • Work with project &amp; program teams (when required) to plan &amp; manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc. • Conduct reviews, performance monitoring &amp; 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 &amp; evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure &amp; associated technical standards for the organization

People • Coach &amp; 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 &amp; development planning of the broader product engineering team • Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee &amp; 3rd Party Adoption)

Risk &amp; Governance • Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during &amp; post deployment) • Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks • Create business cases &amp; solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals) • Participate in incident management &amp; DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving &amp; technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents • Deliver on time &amp; on budget (always) Education and experience required • 8+ years’ experience

• Experience with Cloud platforms e.g. Azure, AWS &amp; Google Cloud Platform essential

• Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of experience &amp; practical application in the following is evident: • Cross domain knowledge • Architecture • Infrastructure Solutioning • Testing • Web Applications • Service Side • Influencing • Automation • Messaging • Virtualisation &amp; Cloud • Solutioning • SSL Security • CI/CD etc. • Experience as an agile practitioner and knowledge or experience of other delivery methodologies e.g. Kanban, RUP etc. • Excellent communication, analytical skills and decision making ability in collaborative environments • Excellent understanding of specific coding / scripting languages e.g. Java, C#, Python, Perl, JavaScript • Solid understanding of Object Oriented Design and ability to properly apply general design patterns and paradigms • Experience with test-driven development and domain driven design • Solid understanding of messaging protocols and web services like SOAP and REST • Experience with open-source relational databases • Knowledge of application server containers: Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss, NodeJS, IIS, .Net Core etc. • Good understanding of frameworks and libraries like JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, HTML, CSS • Experience with CI / CD tools (like Jenkins, Bamboo, TFS, Azure Devops) and Artifact Management (preferably Nexus), • Ability to create and maintain sophisticated CI / CD pipelines • Strong understanding of version control and related concepts and techniques, particularly Git • Experience with appropriate unit testing framework(s) • Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills. • Comfortable with stubbing tools like wiremock and/or hoverfly • Experience with scripting languages like Bash and/or Python • Familiar with OAuth, Open Connect ID and SAML, preferably with an understanding of AD / LDAP / Kerberos • Familiar with Containerisation technologies like Docker &amp; or orchestrators like Kubernetes

Competencies: (Maximum of 8 competencies) • Making Decisions • Empowering Individuals • Directing People • Embracing Change • Challenging Ideas • Team Working • Developing Expertise • Meeting Timescales