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PRODUCT OWNER 

Role Purpose 

The Product Owner III is a member of the agile team, responsible for defining user stories and prioritizing the team backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components for the team. The role owns products of varying to high complexities, engaging and collaborating with product management to execute the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.

Qualifications and experience

• Degree in Business, IT, Engineering, Marketing, or another relevant field – (essential).  

• Certified Product Owner / certified SAFe Product Owner – (essential).

• +6 years’ experience in a Lead or Senior Product Owner role, with experience working in an agile team and proven success launching new and complex product features and translating business strategy and analysis into successful consumer products – (essential).  

• Extensive experience collaborating across multi-disciplinary teams to deliver complex projects – (essential).

• Depth of understanding and experience with analytics and big data – (essential).  

• Strong commercial experience in digital led business development environments – (essential).  

• Customer user and loyalty experience – (essential).  

• Knowledge of legal compliance (POPIA, Electronic Information Act, etc.) – (essential).

• General marketing or retail experience – (desired).  

• Exposure to the African digital market and customers – (desired).  

TEST ANALYST

Role Purpose  

The purpose of the role is to perform standard testing activities, in order to ensure the successful  implementation of business solutions. The role designs, develops and administers a series of tests  and evaluations that identify any potential issues with a product before its general release,  including defect fixes, functional and non-functional testing, system enhancements, new applications,  fixes for incidents and disaster recovery testing (includes changes to systems or business products). The  role verifies and validates with the Test Manager / Senior Testing Analyst that the intended  solution meets stated requirements and specifications that guided its design and development, and  that they work within required standards and frameworks. The role works alongside the project, testing  and functional teams to provide technical application testing and evaluation support and  execution to deliver client application support and ensure IT operations run smoothly. The role  executes operational processes of low to medium complexity and scale.

Qualifications and experience

• Degree or Diploma in Information Technology or a related field – (essential).  

• Formal software testing training (e.g., ISEB, ISTQB CTFL) – (desired).  

• +2 years’ experience working as a Test Analyst with demonstrable experience with manual testing, SQL experience and testing in an Agile environment – (essential).  

• Knowledge of functional testing, system testing, integration testing, regression testing – (essential).  

• Knowledge of structured test methods and processes – (essential).  

• Exposure to testing user interfaces – (essential).  

• Understanding of testing concepts and the role of QA within Agile development methodology / Scrum management techniques – (essential).

• Experience with API testing, Automated testing tools and Remedy or similar CM experience – (desired).  

• Testing experience in a retail environment – (desired).  

• Knowledge of systems performance testing, user acceptance testing – (desired).  

• Experience of testing using an automated test tool such as QC and QTP/Selenium/Test Complete/Robot Framework or any other – (desired).