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About the job

MiX Telematics requires an individual to fill the vacancy for a Manual Tester within our IoT Engineering Department. The position is based in Stellenbosch, South Africa and will be part of the IoT Engineering Testing Team, reporting to the Senior Development Manager: IoT Engineering.

Purpose:

• The Tester is responsible for all quality aspects of software/firmware development including risk analysis, test development and test execution (formal and informal).

Responsibilities:

Testing and Quality Assurance:

• Develop, document, and communicate test processes, plans, and guides for ensuring quality software systems
• Design, create and execute test cases
• Design and execute regression and integration test, stress and load testing, user acceptance testing
• Identifying, logging and verifying software defects
• Document, track and validate reported issues through to resolution

Documentation:

• Work with Test Lead, Product Owner and developers to develop testing plan as part of the overall project and sprint planning
• Develop test specifications, test reports and validation protocols for unit, integration and performance testing
• Create test cases from system use cases and product specification

Teamwork:

• Work with both Product Owners and Developers (firmware and software engineers) to thoroughly validate and verify systems against documented requirements
• Work as part of a sprint team to ensure project success

Personal Attributes:

• A passion for all technology, not just software: an individual that loves to take things apart and understand how it works
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Must be detail orientated
• Dedicated, hardworking, and self-motivated
• Ability to work independently and within the team

Special Knowledge, Skills:

• This is a position for a manual tester within a team. As such, a tester will be required to work with our MiX hardware, 3rd party devices and be required to perform configuration of devices, data simulation and fault finding (hardware and software). An understanding of, and experience in hardware and software integration (firmware, communications, back-end systems) is thus essential
• Telemetry/automotive background favourably considered
• Familiarity with test management systems (e.g., TestLink, Azure TestManager, HP Quality Centre, NI Simulink) favourably considered
• Strong understanding of testing process
• Experience with testing in an Agile iterative development process (e.g., SCRUM)
• Experience with documentation of test plans for acceptance, regression, functional, and stress testing
• Understanding of configuration management and version control
• Experience with defect tracking process
• Basic knowledge of windows server OS hosting both window services and IIS web services
• Good practical understanding of software validation methodologies

What you need to be successful:

• IT Qualification, relevant tertiary Degree or Diploma
• ISEB Foundation Certification in Software Testing
• At least 3 years’ experience in software and web application testing

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Key Responsibility Areas and Duties

• Work closely with international stakeholders to gather market requirements and prioritise in accordance with MiX’s strategic goals
• Use a high level perspective to define goals and create a vision for development projects.
• Understand the needs and pain points of customers and operational support staff

Product requirements, specifications and project management

• Lead solution requirements analysis, definition, and acceptance into the development lifecycle
• Conduct requirements workshops
• Gather, interpret, and translate customer needs into functional and non-functional requirements and stories
• Understand system behaviour, inputs, and outputs as they relate to business functions
• Create wireframes of software making use of prototyping tools
• Facilitate regular sessions with stakeholders to ensure the requirements have been met
• Project manage the delivery of the development project, driving delivery, documenting the project plan and communicating progress and risks
• Support the day-to-day needs of the development team in understanding the business requirements
• Map out project dependencies to inform the necessary sequence of development
• As the project evolves the product owner must gauge the areas which have flexibility and which don’t within the time constraint for the project in order to determine when each iteration and product element will be developed
• Expert communication to make sure there is buy-in from stakeholders on all major decisions and strategy and clear instructions and deliverables for developers
• Accountable for each stage of the development process and the final product.
• Take a primary role in inspecting and evaluating product progress through each iteration

Field Trial, release and go-to-market

• Lead the planning of product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
• Facilitate user acceptance testing and field trials with regional stakeholders
• Provide solution training for CSO testing and support staff and RSO stakeholders
• Co-ordinate the provision of supporting documentation to facilitate market release
• Provide support to the regional stakeholders executing a market release

Financial/Commercial

• Where applicable manage the 3rd party supplier relationships required to deliver a solution/project
• Develop and maintain CSO cost pricing
• Ensure CSO/RSO billing methods are established and entrenched for all solutions developed

Subject matter expertise

• Be the subject matter expert on the assigned portfolio of solutions
• Expert on competition products similar to those in MiX Telematics portfolio and keep up to date on competition products as they evolve.
• Ensure all product support documents are created, up to date, and of a high standard.
• Ensure all training material is up to date and accurate

Personal attributes and characteristics:

• Highly motivated individual with a genuine interest in technology and a passion to deliver cutting-edge products
• Positive, professional and able to collaborate with cross-departmental colleagues at all times
• Strong communication, negotiation and diplomacy skills
• The ability to deal with diverse and international stakeholders
• Self-motivated with a proactive approach
• Solid commercial understanding balanced against technical and product knowledge
• Comfortable with uncertainty and change
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Well-developed information gathering, planning, and organisation skills
• Ability to manage multiple activities in a deadline-oriented, high pressure environment
• Highly organized and flexible

What you need to be successful:

• Preferably an undergraduate degree with an Information Systems focus
• Minimum 5 years of working experience as a Product Owner
• Preferably a degree or qualification in Engineering or a similar relevant field
• In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles of Scrum
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
• Creative thinker with a vision
• Attention to detail
• Strong logical and analytical skills with an attention to detail
• Strong listening, verbal and written communication skills
• Strong Microsoft Office skills – Excel, Word and Power Point
• Ability to explore, analyze and utilize various software platforms from an end user perspective
• Experience with wireframe building/prototyping tools is beneficial e.g.  Balsamiq, Omnigraffle

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About the opportunity:

We’re seeking talented Full Stack/ Mobile Developers (UI) to join us, you will be upgrading ‘next-gen’ mobile apps and all the infrastructure that goes with it. You’ll also leverage technological advancements in this space to create a new suite of mobile apps to replace the existing suite.

If you enjoy learning new technologies and are deeply CURIOUS, well-trained, and disciplined, this role is for you. It’ll suit you if you’re the sort of person who is highly proactive, able to work autonomously and can take initiative easily. You have ‘an itch’ to satisfy and your experience of success is aligned with getting things done well. You strive to understand what you’re doing and enjoy problem-solving.

You’d be joining a loyal team with a good sense of humour. The team is tight because they’re always pushing the limits of their technology in complex and interesting ways. There are unending challenges and as such, there is no possibility of boredom. Your time and effort will be rewarded as the work is exciting and important. You will get a sense of meaning from what you create immediately.

The Software Development department is sectioned into Software Domain Teams, each having 'ownership' of their IP (Technology choices, architecture, best practices, DevOps) and an appropriate degree of autonomy. This provides the best of both worlds having the feel of a small 'start up' team while also having the security of being part of a well-established and stable business

Our cross-functional teams are passionate about collaboration and sharing knowledge, as well as working with a high degree of autonomy.

As a Full Stack/ Mobile Developer at MiX Telematics, you will be encouraged to embrace the latest technological updates and given a platform to work on complex, interesting problems daily.

What you need to be successful:

Background:

• Must have: 3+ years’ experience in developing software using C#, Xamarin, RESTful APIs, .NET core, MS SQL and AngularJS (if your tech stack comes close to this, you are most welcome to apply!)
• Advantageous: AWS Cloud experience and MVVM

Traits:

• Strong bias for action, and getting things done well
• Motivation to write code that is well-tested and well-documented
• Give and receive open, direct and timely feedback

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About the opportunity:
If you’re a Senior Backend Developer who enjoys working with high volumes of data in the ‘deep backend’ with a focus on code optimization, this is the position for you. At MiX Telematics the backend components speak to each other. These are large and complex systems operating real-time, big data pipeline processing and intra-processed messaging. As such, you need to be completely comfortable with handling more than one API and have a solid understanding of what is going on ‘under the hood’.

You’d be joining an intense, high-performance team comprised of intellectual and academic personalities. These are the sorts of developers who understand what ‘data streaming’ means and know when it’s being used as a buzzword.

The Software Development department is sectioned into Software Domain Teams, each having 'ownership' of their IP (Technology choices, architecture, best practices, DevOps) and an appropriate degree of autonomy. This provides the best of both worlds having the feel of a small 'start up' team while also having the security of being part of a well-established and stable business

Our cross-functional teams are passionate about collaboration and sharing knowledge, as well as working with a high degree of autonomy. As a Senior Backend Developer MiX Telematics, you will be encouraged to embrace the latest technological updates and given a platform to work on complex, interesting problems daily.

What you need to be successful:
Background:

• Must have 3+ years: C#, C++ .net Core, AWS Cloud Tech experience, RESTful API experience
• Advantageous: Apache Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS Aurora

Traits:

• Strong bias for action, and getting things done well
• Give and receive open, direct, and timely feedback
• Unafraid of asking for help/ support when required

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About the opportunity:

Are you a senior software developer/ DI with the capacity for problem-solving and persistence? If so, you’d enjoy writing software over two widespread and complex domains. Given the opportunity, you find it difficult to stop speaking about what you do. You enjoy playing with devices in your free time and may well have a background in hardware. You are completely unafraid of “bits and bytes” and you have a high-level understanding and 3+ years of experience with MS SQL.

This Dev will be joining a large, strong, and outspoken team that operates at the ‘choke point’ and is cool under pressure, but you see a complicated problem to solve and enjoy that.

The Software Development department is sectioned into Software Domain Teams, each having 'ownership' of their IP (Technology choices, architecture, best practices, DevOps) and an appropriate degree of autonomy. This provides the best of both worlds having the feel of a small 'start up' team while also having the security of being part of a well-established and stable business.

Our cross-functional teams are passionate about collaboration and sharing knowledge, as well as working with a high degree of autonomy. As a Senior Software Developer/ DI at MiX Telematics, you will be encouraged to embrace the latest technological updates and given a platform to work on complex, interesting problems daily.

What you need to be successful:

Background:

• Must have 3+ years: C#, MS SQL, RESTful API experience, AngularJS
• Advantageous: Engineering degree, Apache/ Confluent Kafka, Redis, AWS S3, MS SQL

Traits:

• Strong bias for action, and getting things done well
• Give and receive open, direct, and timely feedback
• Unafraid of asking for help/ support when required

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About the opportunity:

If you are a meticulous code writer with the ability to code an Angular page that can talk to an API, then this role is well-suited to you. AngularJS is key to this position, so you’d need a minimum of two years’ experience. You have core knowledge of Javascript and an understanding of how the language REALLY works. You are comfortable prioritizing the front end but as you know...the bugs often exist in the back end, so you also have advanced knowledge in this key area. A focus on UI components and experience with .NET core APIs in C# would also be advantageous. You are honest and detail-oriented.

You would be joining a close-knit team that communicates very well and enjoys being social. They are connected to customers more than other teams and know that they are a part of a business. Productivity is high and as such, so is the satisfaction that comes from getting a lot of ‘small things’ done.

The Software Development department is sectioned into Software Domain Teams, each having 'ownership' of their IP (Technology choices, architecture, best practices, DevOps) and an appropriate degree of autonomy. This provides the best of both worlds having the feel of a small 'start up' team while also having the security of being part of a well-established and stable business

Our cross-functional teams are passionate about collaboration and sharing knowledge, as well as working with a high degree of autonomy. As a Fullstack Developer at MiX Telematics, you will be encouraged to embrace the latest technological updates and given a platform to work on complex, interesting problems daily.

What you need to be successful:
Background:

• Must have: 2+ years’ experience with C#, RESTful API experience, Angular/Angular JS, Git
• Advantageous: AWS Cloud Tech experience, MS SQL, Typescript, JavaScript, Kendo, DOM experience, Azure

Traits:

• Strong bias for action, and getting things done well
• Motivation to write code that is well-tested and well-documented
• Give and receive open, direct and timely feedback

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What you need to be successful:

• Min 2 years post graduate experience in a similar position.
• Must have a B.Com qualification or similar.
• Must be computer literate.
• High proficiency in MS Excel.
• Experience in Microsoft AX will be advantageous.

What you will be responsible for:

• Creditor payments reviews
• Masterfile record maintenance
• Balance sheet reconciliations (month end and continued)
• Assist in ensuring compliance of internal and external financial controls
• Completion of various statutory returns
• Cash management
• Reserve bank Excon applications
• Ad hoc duties as required by Senior Financial Accountant

Personal characteristics:

• be a good communicator.
• be a good administrator.
• have good numeracy skills and be well organized with good planning skills
• be a team player.
• have an eye for detail.