Salesforce Test Engineer at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• Design automation testing plans and develop automation test scripts for multiple technical products / services (pre, during & post deployment) in both ‘Run & Change’ contexts and align to chosen application testing frameworks & 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 & metrics.

Job Description

Accountability: DEVOPS

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve technical problems (Front End, Back

End OR Middleware) with high quality solutions

• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including
• Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational

feasibility of solutions

• Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / similar tools and deploying to multi-site

Kubernetes environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)

• Use & configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana /

NewRElic and tracing using Zipkin/Jaeger

• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines
• Provide input into project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management,

testing, integration etc.

• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for cross domain and other experiences e.g. Secure Side, Testing, Infrastructure solutions etc.

People

• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

Risk & Governance

• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of

Major incidents

Accountability: Compliance and Regulatory compliance

• Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management
• Framework and Absa Policies and Policy Standards.
• Understand and manage risks and risk events (incidents) relevant to the role.

Minimum Education

• Information Technology NQF 6 or Equivalent qualification
• Certified Salesforce Platform Developer 1 accreditation

Minimum Experience

• 3 Years Financial Services Platform experience of which 1 year 6 months is Sales Force experience

Knowledge And Skills

• Solid understanding of key SFDC architectural concepts (e.g., API and governor limits) and how they influence design.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology