Hogan Academy Intake – January 2011
FNB Hogan Technology Academy is a BankSeta accredited training provider set up
to build necessary skills capacity within our organization. One of the major
drives of the Academy is to source and train new IT talent and provide
opportunities for those seeking a challenging and rewarding career. Since our
inception we have provided over 160 unemployed youth with a chance to start
working in the IT industry
To this end the Hogan Academy is once again on a recruitment drive to enlist
motivated achievers for our 2011 intake of trainees.
What we offer:
§ Two career paths :
§ Software Testing
§ Cobol programming
§ Free Training
§ Contract employment for the duration of the training
§ Full time employment opportunities on successful completion of training
Minimum Requirements:
§ South African Citizen
§ Recent IT / IS Graduates
§ Recent Matriculants with at least a Level 5 for Maths & English. (HG – D or
SG – C)
§ Recent Graduates of other non-IT degrees who wish to pursue an IT career
The next course commences in January 2011. All training will take place at
FNB’s BankCity premises in Johannesburg.
At the end of the course, candidates will be expected to complete a relevant
3rd party assessment at their own expense .
In order to qualify for entry to this course, a 2 hour aptitude test would need
to be written and passed.
Testing will take place on the dates included in the attached application.
Please select the one most convenient for you.
To book a test:
If you qualify and would like to write the aptitude test, email the attached
application form to [email protected] with either “Cobol” or “Testing” as
the subject line (depending on which programme you are applying for
NB: We will contact you to confirm an appointment date. If you have not heard
from us within a week from the date of receipt of your application then you may
assume that your application was unsuccessful.
Background
Hogan Technology is an IT Service provider within the FirstRand Group that
supplies IT services and solutions to various business units within the
FirstRand Group. We have both the technical expertise and the infrastructure to
deliver industry standard services. We run, monitor and support our systems 24
hours a day which allows us to sustain the highest levels of quality and
availability
Software testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with
information about the quality of the product or service under test. Software
testing also provides an objective, independent view of the software to allow
the business to appreciate and understand the risks at implementation of the
software. Test techniques include, but are not limited to, the process of
executing a program or application with the intent of finding software bugs.
Software testing can also be stated as the process of validating and verifying
that a software program/application/product:
meets the business and technical requirements that guided its design and
development;
works as expected; and
can be implemented with the same characteristics.
Although crucial to software quality and widely deployed by programmers and
testers, software testing still remains an art, due to limited understanding of
the principles of software. The difficulty in software testing stems from the
complexity of software: we can not completely test a program with moderate
complexity. So Testing is more than just debugging and the Hogan testing team
provide the First Rand group with world class testing techniques and process to
facilitate the following:
§ Quicker turn around time of solutions and changes into the market.
§ Improve the quality of solutions and changes migrated to our live platforms
in terms of minimizing defects.
§ Organizations insurance policy against failure and lost business.
Cobol Programming
Computer programming (often shortened to programming or coding) is the process
of designing, writing, testing, debugging / troubleshooting, and maintaining
the source code of computer programs. This source code is written in a
programming language (in our case Cobol).
The code may be a modification of an existing source or something completely
new. The purpose of programming is to create a program that provides and
automated solution to a specific business problem. The process of writing
source code often requires expertise in many different subjects, including
knowledge of the application domain, specialized algorithms and formal logic.
FNB Hogan Technology Development is responsible for the development, support
and maintenance of all products under its control. FNB purchased a Banking
package called Hogan developed by Hogan Systems in America. Since then we have
taken ownership of the system and maintain it ourselves. Hogan Technology
Development is the custodian of all Hogan Systems which include all our
Products Houses, IDS, IPH, ILP & CAMS as well as the customer information
system, CIS.
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