Senior Application Specialist & Data QA Lead

Boardroom Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking an Application Specialist III with strong IT support, SQL and testing experience to lead software projects in a retail/financial services context. The role requires coordination with project teams and vendors and taking technical lead on complex applications.

You will coordinate testing, QA, and data validation, and act as an expert across multiple computer programs and data interfaces. A solid SDLC background is expected.

Qualifications

• +6 years experience as an Application Specialist (essential).
• IT Support and Operations knowledge (essential).
• Advanced working knowledge of MS Office Suite (essential).
• Advanced working knowledge of different operating systems and Internet technologies (essential).
• Experience in a Retail and or Financial Services industry (essential).
• Experience in software testing (essential).
• IT Support and Operations knowledge (essential).
• Working knowledge of different operating systems and Internet technologies - (essential).
• Experience of working on projects within the Software Development Life Cycle (essential).
• Incident management system knowledge - (essential).
• Business presentation skills - (essential).
• Experience in cloud solutions (desirable).
• Exposure to Project Management - (desirable).
• Foundational knowledge of core programming technologies - (desirable).

Responsibilities

• The roles primary responsibilities are to independently participate in the coordination of projects requiring functional and specialized knowledge, working in close collaboration with, but not limited to, project teams, functional teams and vendors.
• This role takes the technical lead in large or complex applications requiring deep specialized knowledge.
• The role should be able to coordinate testing and perform quality assurance on the data and validate the outcome of the testing.
• The role is expected to be an expert in several computer programs and data interfaces.

Skills

IT Support

MS Office

Operating systems

Cloud solutions

Education

Matric

MS SQL fundamentals Certification

MS SQL - Querying data with Transact Certification

Tools

Incident management system

Job description

Boardroom Appointments is seeking an Application Specialist III with strong IT support, SQL and testing experience to lead software projects in a retail/financial services context. The role requires coordination with project teams and vendors and taking technical lead on complex applications.

You will coordinate testing, QA, and data validation, and act as an expert across multiple computer programs and data interfaces. A solid SDLC background is expected.