Job Description

Are you a quality champion who thrives on building robust testing strategies and delivering high-performing, reliable software?
We're looking for an experienced Test Automation Engineer to drive quality across our development lifecycle and help us scale world-class testing practices.
In this role, you'll lead test strategy and execution, mentor QA engineers, and design automation frameworks for frontend, backend, and API testing.
Working in an agile/DevOps environment, you'll be instrumental in establishing performance testing pipelines, implementing shift-left practices, and ensuring traceability from requirements through release.
If you're passionate about test automation, love building from the ground up, and have an eye for quality and efficiency-this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
Amazing brand with cutting-edge technology
Excellent teams in Global team collaboration
High work-life balance with Flexible hours
Agile working environment
POSITION: Contract until December 2027
EXPERIENCE: 6-8 Years related working experience
COMMENCEMENT: 01 July 2025
LOCATION: Midrand/Menlyn/Rosslyn/Home Office rotation
Qualifications & Experience Required:

• Relevant IT Degree
• 3 years plus in a Senior role, more than 6 year's total experience

Essential Skills:

• Test Planning and Test Strategy management: Design, implement and maintain test strategies
• Oversee and facilitate Test Execution and Reporting: Monitor on testing metrics, including requirements coverage and defect density
• Stakeholder Management and Communication
• Quality Assurance and Control
• Identify suitable training for Test/QA Engineers to enhance their skills and knowledge
• Identification, Creation & Sanitation of Test Data, including securing sensitive data
• Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter

Tools and Frameworks:

• X-Ray for Test Case Management and Test Execution and Reporting

Advantageous Skills:

• Source version management using Git
• GitHub Actions
• Test Automation (Frontend and API Test Automation)
• Familiar with AWS architecture.
• Security and Reliability Testing.
• Portability Testing.
• Tools and Frameworks:
• Git for source code version management
• Playwright and Cucumber for test automation
• JMeter or Gatling for Performance and Load Testing

Role Responsibilities:

• Functional Expectation
• Conduct with the feature team members, system analysis, design, development and testing for their assigned technical products or applications within the context of an agile/DevOps delivery model.
• Create, Maintain and Outline Test Scenarios and test cases for feature and capabilities.
• Track new/changed requirements and ensure these are addressed during automated testing.
• Creation and maintenance of automated tests and test data for the Frontend, Backend and Integration using GROUP standard tools and frameworks.
• Guide and assist in defining a framework for performance and load testing using GROUP standard tools and frameworks.
• Integrate automation testing at various stages to uphold quality gates, during the build and deploy pipelines for development, regression & release cycles.
• Provide adequate Test Reporting, for each stage of testing in the SDLC and the interpretation of the provided test reports and defect management for continuous improvement.

• Non Functionals
• Perform continuous quality analysis to help ensure that quality of the products we ship to customers are of the highest standard.
• Establish, implement, and evolve the formal QA processes to ensure that the group is using industry accepted standard methodologies as they align to GROUP QA practices.
• Design and develop the QA capabilities i.e. testing tools, test frameworks, test reporting mechanisms to test software, services, and infrastructure requirements, applying Shift-Left principles.
• Stay knowledgeable of new testing tools and strategies in accordance with AWM and ATC tooling and its prescriptions. Evaluate these to incorporate current and future alignment, within the QA domain.
• Ability to work interdependently as well as independently and to submit deliverables on time and with excellent quality.
• Mentorship and guidance of junior QA team members.
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills with the ability to communicate effectively (both verbally and in writing) with both technical and non-technical colleagues / users.
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• Also note, that if you have not received a response from us within 2 weeks, your application was unsuccessful.
• Candidates MUST be based in Gauteng or WILLING TO RELOCATE!

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