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Our client is an international leading-edge, innovative supplier of telecommunication solutions to national governments and law enforcement communities. They are looking for a Quality Assurance Tester to assist with the end-to-end testing of their products and systems.

The purpose of the QA Tester role is to become a core contributor to their product quality in a team developing User Interfaces and supporting application server components for data integration, data exploration, data analysis and visualization.

The candidate must apply initiative with responsibility and commitment to discover, investigate and test feature rich UI applications and contribute to their product quality by advancing their test strategy, validating product features and translating user stories into representative test cases.

Responsibilities:

• Assist QA Team with exploratory and regression testing of software product
• Testing and Management of Software Product within the SDLC
• Knowledge of QA methodologies, SDLC and process improvement
• In-dept product knowledge
• Attend and contribute to Agile ceremonies
• Analyse features using formal test analysis methods to produce test designs
• Contribute to requirements analysis and feature design through considering testability requirements and by applying product test experience.
• Test planning and test case documentation, management and execution
• Reporting Test Results
• Identify, log and track bugs
• Liaise with Product Owner to provide feedback

Qualifications and Experience:

• Min 2-3 Years’ experience with software testing
• Relevant Tertiary Education
• ISTQB / ISEB Certification (Very beneficial)
• Experience in software testing methods (Functional and Non-Functional, Regression, Performance, Acceptance, Compatibility, Integration, Usability and Security
• Experience in Telecommunications protocol (Advantageous)

Tech Stack

• SQL (Basic knowledge to run queries etc.)
• Jira/Zephyr
• Bitbucket
• Confluence
• pgAdmin / DBeaver
• Git
• Visual Studio
• Operating systems: Max, Linux, Window

Skills:

• Strong analytical, technical and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
• Strong organization skills
• Attention to detail
• Passionate about learning new skills to improve total product quality
• Demonstrates accountability, proactively, and has enthusiastic attitude.

General:

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should you not hear from us after 30 days you may consider your application unsuccessful
• In keeping with our client’s employment equity requirements, only South African citizens will be considered.
• Please include your current salary and salary expectations.

Our client is an international leading-edge, innovative supplier of telecommunication solutions to national governments and law enforcement communities. They are looking for a Systems Engineer.

The duties of the Systems Engineer spans a number of main areas of responsibilities. The Systems Engineer may be allocated by the company to any one, or many or all of these main areas.

Core duties include

Pre-Sales Project Activities

Before contract placement, the Systems Engineer shall be involved in the sales activities stated below.

• Requirement and Specification Management
  • Elicit and define Customer/user needs
  • Derive and document solution and system requirements
  • Validate and Verify requirement specifications

• Proposal Preparation
  • Design and propose solutions to meet the requirements and document them in a technical proposal
  • Provide inputs to Account and Project management

Project Activities

After contract placement, the Senior Systems Engineer shall be involved in the activities stated below.

• Detail Solution Design
  • Finalise Solution Architecture
  • Provide inputs to Account and Project management
• System Integration and Testing
  • System Integration and Testing o Provide support to System Integration and Testing
  • Provide inputs for test plans for System Integration and Testing
• Project Timelines
  • Identify and mitigate possible risks to project that may affect timelines and/or deliverables.
• Installation, Upgrades and Site Acceptance
  • Installation
    • Provide support to Order-Fulfilment with on-site installation activities
    • Provide support to Order-Fulfilment with System Integration and Setting-to-Work
  • Upgrades:
    • Plan upgrade activities for site upgrades
    • Provide input to Test Plans and ensure upgrade Procedures are reviewed
    • Support upgrade activities on Site that is executed by the Support Department
    • Review and Present the final upgrade report to the Client ?
  • Define and supervise solution qualification Tests:
    • Generate Test Plans, Procedures and Manage Solution Integration on Site
    • Manage Solution integration on Site
    • Manage and participate in the execution of the qualification of a solution.
    • Conduct Site Acceptance Testing (Verification and Validation)

Product

• Keep up with company's product development and integration of third party software, as well as EOL strategies.
  • Provide inputs into product designs and requirements.
  • Provide inputs into product EOL strategies.
  • Provide inputs and review third party software or hardware as required.

Education

• Experience: 3-5 years in Systems Engineering; Telecoms, RF or Software Development
• Minimum: B. Engineering Degree
• Ideal: Master’s Degree in Engineering with additional Project Management OR Systems Engineering qualification

Required Skills and Knowledge:

• Passion for creating systems and solutions
• Project management
• Management and Leadership
• Planning and organising
• Disciplined
• Strong verbal and written communication
• Good administrative and organisational skills
• Creative and analytic problem-solving skills
• Good negotiating / conflict resolution skills
• Sound decision-making skills
• Good understanding of project management process
• Telecoms, software and RF Engineering knowledge
• Strong knowledge and experience in Systems
• Engineering or Technical Project Management
• Strong knowledge and experience of IT hardware,
• software and systems

Personal Attributes:

• Team player
• Organised
• Self-motivated
• Self-starter
• High standard of service delivery
• Conflict resolution
• Problem solving
• Time conscious
• “Can do” attitude
• Logical
• Goal-oriented
• Respects all stakeholders
• Stabilises situations
• Brings people together
• Creates shared direction

General:

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should you not hear from us after 30 days you may consider your application unsuccessful
• In keeping with our client’s employment equity requirements, only South African citizens will be considered.
• Please include your current salary and salary expectations.

Our client is an international leading-edge, innovative supplier of telecommunication solutions to national governments and law enforcement communities. They are looking for a Systems Integration Tester.

Become a member of a team enthusiastic about the challenges posed by integrating complex systems comprising diverse components and subsystems.

Contribute to the design, implementation and maintenance of integration environments, the derivation and implementation of optimal test suites, the execution of exploratory testing and automated regression testing to integrate large-scale systems.

Passionate about the quality of our product and customer solutions as well as the establishment of proactive measures and procedures to ensure high customer satisfaction.

Education

Acknowledged test certification.

• National Diploma (Computer Studies or Electrical Engineering)

OR

• Tech (Computer Studies or Electrical Engineering)
• 5 years’ relevant experience in an aligned position.

Requirements / Knowledge / Skills

• Experience in the following programming languages will be advantageous
  • Java
  • Google Go
  • Python or other scripting language
• Database skills and working knowledge of SQL required
• Experience in software integration
• Experience in complex system integration
• Experience in or background knowledge of the Telecoms industry

General:

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should you not hear from us after 30 days you may consider your application unsuccessful
• In keeping with our client’s employment equity requirements, only South African citizens will be considered.
• Please include your current salary and salary expectations.

Our client is an international leading-edge, innovative supplier of telecommunication solutions to national governments and law enforcement communities. They are looking for a Systems Integration Engineer.

Become a member of a team enthusiastic about the challenges posed by integrating complex systems comprising diverse components and subsystems.

Contribute to the design, implementation and maintenance of integration environments, development of software frameworks, procedures and applications to integrate systems.

Passionate about the quality of customer solutions and the establishment of proactive measures and procedures to ensure high customer satisfaction.

Education

• Tech (Computer Studies) or B.Tech (Electrical Engineering) plus 5 years’ relevant experience in an aligned position.

OR

• Sc. Computer Science, BEng (with Computer Science subjects up to final year) or equivalent qualification plus 5 years’ relevant experience in an aligned position.

OR

• Master’s Degree (MSc.Eng. or M.Eng.) plus 3 years’ experience in an aligned position.

Requirements / Knowledge / Skills

• Strong software skills and ability essential – Java skills required
• Experience in the following programming languages will be advantageous
  • C++
  • Google Go
  • Python or other scripting language
• Database skills required
• Experience in software integration
• Experience in complex system integration
• Experience in or background knowledge of the Telecoms industry

General:

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should you not hear from us after 30 days you may consider your application unsuccessful
• In keeping with our client’s employment equity requirements, only South African citizens will be considered.
• Please include your current salary and salary expectations.

Our client is an international leading-edge, innovative supplier of telecommunication solutions to national governments and law enforcement communities. They are looking for a Test Engineer with automation experience.

Become a vital and high contributing team member by advancing our test strategy, validating product features and translating user stories into representative test cases.

As a test engineer you will develop and implement frameworks to ensure the quality of our user facing software components. You will develop in-depth knowledge of our product features and feature interactions. You will consider and evaluate items on the product backlog to develop test cases and contribute to the product roadmap from test and qualification outputs.

You will use your DevOps experience to enhance our CI/CD pipeline by extending our test, build and release tools. You will help to establish integration test tools, including data retrieval and analysis from a data warehouse and a service platform architecture.

Responsibilities:

To perform in this role, you will have to interact with:

• The Product Owner to understand UI requirements that flow from the product roadmap
• Software Engineers to understand the architecture and implementation decisions
• Integration Engineers to release qualified user interfacing components
• Solution Engineers to understand expectations and to solicit feedback
• Team members responsible for delivering a quality UI product by collaborating and
• participating in the team's agile culture and scrum ceremonies

Qualifications and Experience:

As a minimum you:

• Hold an appropriate tertiary qualification (at least a Bachelor’s degree at NQF level 7)
• Have demonstrated advanced skill in at least one programming language and environment

It will be to your benefit if you have:

• Test certification or a postgraduate qualification in software testing
• Experience as a test engineer in a software development or engineering environment
• Experience with test automation frameworks and tools
• CI/CD experience in a DevOps role
• Skill in our tech stack

You are expected to work with the following technologies:

• For CI/CD, Test Automation and Scrum Ceremonies
  • Confluence
  • JIRA / Zephyr
  • Bitbucket
  • Artifactory
  • Maven
  • Git
  • Bamboo / Jenkins
  • Jest / Nightwatch / Java Meter / Blaze Meter
• For rich user interfaces
  • HTML and CSS
  • JavaScript and Typescript
  • gRPC and gRPC-web
  • js ecosystem
• For Data, DevOps, Scripting, Analysis
  • Wireshark
  • Java
  • Python Pandas
  • Apache Kafka
  • SQL and Vertica
  • Linux / Windows OS

You have the following attributes:

• innovative, revel in solving tough problems and revealing unique solutions
• detail-oriented and curious, seek to gain deep understanding of the domain
• excellent verbal and written communication skills to promote collaboration
• aspire to learn new skills and research to gain knowledge
• take initiative, works independently with little need for supervision
• desire to improve and drive change that leads to higher productivity for the whole team

General:

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should you not hear from us after 30 days you may consider your application unsuccessful
• In keeping with our client’s employment equity requirements, only South African citizens will be considered.
• Please include your current salary and salary expectations.

Our client, a medium-sized Engineering company based in, Stellenbosch.is specialising in the design, development, integration, implementation and support of complex hardware and software systems.

We are currently looking for a experienced, self-motivated and results-driven IT professional to become a member of the customer system support team. This team is responsible for the delivery of Information & Communication Technology related infrastructure, administration, technical support and other services as required for the customer systems. This position is not applicable to the internal company ICT services.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• General
  • Resolve user and client issues within SLA. o Offer remote and potentially onsite support. o Install and configure hardware and software components.
  • Assist with user acceptance testing.
  • Troubleshoot hardware and software issues. o Perform root cause analysis.
  • Repair or replace damaged hardware.
  • Perform tests and evaluations of new software and hardware.
  • Provide advanced user support and training.
  • Pro-active communication to stakeholders.
  • Conduct daily system checks and maintenance operations.
  • Establish good relationships with all customers and colleagues.
  • Manage technical documentation work with 3rd party vendors for system support.
  • Technical Project Management.
• Server Administration (Windows and / or Linux)
  • Server administration and maintenance.
  • User and Group administration.
  • Backup administration.
• Network Administration
  • IP and Routing design administration.
  • Deployment of networks.
  • Switch, Wi-Fi, Router and Firewall administration.
  • DNS administration.
  • Network traffic monitoring and troubleshooting.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE (minimum):

• A 3-year tertiary qualification (CTU, Centurion Academy, a University of Technology e.g. CPUT, etc.)
• One or more of the following courses: MCSE, MCSA, Cisco CCNA, RHSE, etc. International certification would be advantageous
• A minimum of 5 years relevant experience

SKILLS / EXPERIENCE / COMPETENCIES & TECHNOLOGIES:

• Software:

• Windows environment software
  • Microsoft Windows (desktop), Microsoft Server & Microsoft Office Suite
  • Anti-Virus Software (ESET)
  • Backup technologies (Altaro, Arc Server, Tape drives)
  • Infrastructure Monitoring (e.g. PRTG, Nagios, Solarwinds, etc.)
  • VM (e.g. HyperV, VMWare)
• Linux environment software
  • Linux OS
  • DNS (Bind)
  • Mail (e.g. Postfix, Sendmail, Exim, etc.)
  • Fileserver (e.g. SMB, NFS, iSCSI, etc.)
  • VM (Proxmox)
  • Networking:
• Midlevel knowledge of routing, switching, IP addressing & FW rules o Analysis/Troubleshooting software (e.g. Wireshark)
• Cabling and Crimping
• Network equipment experience (e.g. Ubiquity, Mikrotik, Cisco, Dell, Sonicwall, Fortigate, Huawei)

• Other:

• Python, PowerShell and other scripting skills o Proven telephonic and onsite support history.
• Any additional software and database skills would be advantageous.
• Experience in telecommunication/transmission systems including Wifi, LTE, 5G, VoIP, etc.
• would be advantageous.
• Experience in fiber optics would be advantageous.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• Professional conduct with punctual behaviour and a strong work ethic
• Analytical problem-solving with meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to work as part of a diverse team with different skills
• Be able to self-manage, especially when operating alone with remote support
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
• Need to continuously upskill
• A proactive nature with a positive “Can do” attitude towards any type of work that needs to be done
• Highly organised
• Good work/life balance

General

• The position also involves after hours work including remote work.
• It is a full-time, onsite / office based position with a probationary period.

Other:

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should you not hear from us after 30 days you may consider your application unsuccessful
• Please include your current salary and salary expectations.

Our client is an international leading-edge, innovative supplier of telecommunication solutions to national governments and law enforcement communities. They are looking for a Test System Administrator.

The company develops a complex system comprising many subsystems. A number of large-scale test systems are used to support iterative development and release testing. The incumbent will primarily be responsible for administering the test systems, deploy new software on the test systems and perform ad hoc testing as needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure and monitor test system HW and take corrective action as needed
• Configure and monitor test system NW and take corrective action as needed
• Monitor system health and take corrective action as needed
• Deploy subsystem builds on the test systems and verify their operability
• Report deployment procedure issues for rectification
• Verify that the test systems remain operational after deployment by using system health
• features to monitor system alarms, events, etc.
• Assist with manual system testing
• Ensure that system documentation is kept up to date

Education

• Minimum: National Diploma; Microsoft MCSE/CCNA; RHCSA
• Recommended: BTech, RHCE

Requirements / Knowledge / Skills

• Minimum 3 years’ previous experience in a similar role.
• Managing larger server environments (Microsoft/Linux) and Linux Administration
• Monitor backups and resolution on errors.
• Active Directory, DNS, DHCP.
• System change management, change control processes and procedures.
• Incident and problem management.
• Configuration management.
• Experience with PHP/Python, and the ability to write administration scripts would be

advantageous.

• Experience with SQL and/or programming languages would be advantageous.

Personal Attributes

• Have analytical problem-solving skills.
• Have excellent communications skills.
• Have a need to continuously upskill.
• Have a “can do” attitude to any type of work that needs to be done.
• Be able to balance work and life.

General:

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should you not hear from us after 30 days you may consider your application unsuccessful
• In keeping with our client’s employment equity requirements, only South African citizens will be considered.
• Please include your current salary and salary expectations.