Personal and Private Banking (PPB) Quality Engineer Graduate Programme

Standard Bank Group; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 30 000 - 60 000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative financial services group is seeking a dynamic individual to champion quality engineering efforts. This role involves driving quality and test advocacy, managing resources, and resolving issues to ensure successful testing processes. You'll collaborate with IT partners to align on strategies and standards, while also leading initiatives that promote continuous improvement. This is a fantastic opportunity for a motivated individual under 30, eager to make a meaningful impact in a forward-thinking organization focused on growth and excellence in Africa.

Qualifications

• Final year undergraduate or postgraduate degree in relevant fields.
• Must be a South African citizen and under 30 years old.

Responsibilities

• Drive quality and test advocacy while managing resources and issues.
• Ensure alignment with automation initiatives and IT standards.
• Lead quality engineering initiatives and develop team capabilities.

Skills

Collaboration

Resilience

Creative Problem Solving

Curiosity

Positive Attitude

Business Acumen

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Honours or Master's Degree in Electronic Engineering

Degree in Informatics

Degree in Information Technology

Degree in Software Development

Degree in Software Engineering

Job description

Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

To facilitate the test effort's success by driving quality and test advocacy, resource planning and management, and resolution of issues that impede the test effort. To act as a trusted / expert advisor and specialist resource that provides leadership in all quality engineering related activities, including providing guidance on opportunities to improve quality, approach, strategy etc.

Coordinate all reporting requirements, including test status, defect monitoring and resolution, risks, metrics definition etc. across all quality engineering activities to ensure that the state of quality engineering is clearly communicated and documented.

Deliver the consolidated approach to quality engineering and provide input to the deliverable to drive compliance to required standards where applicable.

Drive alignment with the automation initiatives with the system team for the relevant portfolios and applications to ensure standardisation in accordance with the team objectives and strategies.

Drive the overall approach to quality engineering in consultation with other IT partners to drive alignment and respond appropriately to changes.

Ensure that defined velocity targets are achieved for each iteration or sprint; document and escalate any identified risks accordingly so that delivery expectations are clear to the team.

Ensure that quality engineering practices are aligned to strategic Build initiatives (i.e. Agile, CI, TDD etc.) so that modern engineering practices are continuously employed.

Ensure that team is participating actively on demo/pilot with business team so that business priority is understood and informs the adoption of the risk approach.

Ensure that test approaches are aligned to the IT Engineering standards and IT strategic objectives so that progress towards achieving test strategies is future-fit, and that risks are minimised.

Ensure that the necessary tools and environments are available for quality engineering activities so that test execution activities can progress seamlessly and efficiently.

Execute the quality engineering coordination and tracking on the progress of quality engineering activities to ensure risk to solution delivery is quantified and communicated to the delivery team.

Interact with the development and environment support team and resolve the issues based on team need so that blocks and challenges to the test effort are removed.

Lead and champion quality engineering initiatives across the organisation to act as a change agent, and subsequently influence organisational change.

Lead, motivate and develop the quality engineering capability to achieve agreed continuous improvement targets.

Make sure that the team is delivering the right test summary or acceptance test summary reports so that the necessary inputs and risk to the feature teams are covered and advised.

Qualifications

Final year undergraduate, Honours or Masters Degree (Completed or currently completing in 2025);

• Computer Science
• Electronic Engineering
• Informatics, Information Systems
• Information Technology
• Software Development
• Software Engineering
  
  

Additional Information

Minimum Requirements

• Must be a South African citizen
• Must be under 30 years of age
• No more than two years’ work experience
• Minimum of 65% average over all years of study
  
  

Key Skills And Attributes

• Working collaboratively with others
• Resilience
• Creative problem solving and considered decision making
• Curiosity and willingness to learn
• Positive attitude and self confidence
• Business acumen