Junior Design Engineer

About the role

SARS is recruiting a Junior Design Engineer for its Pretoria Landbank office, reporting to the Office Manager within the National Ops Enabling division. The role validates business-critical system changes before deployment, plans and executes testing, manages defects and works with business and technical stakeholders so that solutions are ready for production.

Key responsibilities

• Analyse and support business process engineering and continuous improvement, acting as a bridge between business and technology
• Plan and execute user acceptance testing and ensure system enhancements are validated from an end-user perspective
• Manage defects and track process gaps
• Assist with modelling, documenting and assessing current business processes, and support basic form and letter design
• Contribute to business requirement specifications and detailed project plans, and help define technical vision, data usability and performance needs
• Ensure traceability between requirements and test cases, and understand how system changes affect business processes, data and user experience
• Provide basic data analysis and validate outputs such as forms, letters, reports and taxpayer/account data
• Investigate defects and taxpayer account histories, and assess business impact to recommend test sign-off decisions
• Plan and manage own work, and comply with policies, procedures and legislative requirements

Required profile

• National Diploma or Advanced Certificate in Taxation, Accounting, Business Management, Information Technology or a related field, with 3-4 years' experience in tax administration, business operations, compliance, dispute resolution or debt management, including 1-2 years at knowledge-worker level
• OR Senior Certificate (NQF 4) with 6 years' experience in the same fields, including 1-2 years at knowledge-worker level
• Working knowledge of SARS business processes, legislation, policies and procedures
• Experience navigating SARS systems and interpreting taxpayer account information
• Experience identifying, documenting and tracking defects; UAT, business process validation or quality assurance experience is advantageous

Candidates must pass the GOC secret vetting process, employment equity considerations apply, and the appointment is subject to references, security clearance where applicable and a declaration of private interest.