About the position
Our client is looking for a Junior Software Tester to join their fast-growing engineering team. This role is suited to a detail-oriented, analytical, and highly motivated QA professional who is passionate about delivering high-quality software and ensuring seamless user experiences across complex SaaS environments.
The successful candidate will work closely with Software Developers, Product Managers, and the Senior QA Engineer to support testing processes across multiple client environments, validate business-critical functionality, and contribute to the overall reliability and release readiness of the platform.
Key Responsibilities:
- Review specifications and assist with writing detailed test plans covering happy paths, regressions, and edge cases
- Execute manual test cases across staging and review-app environments
- Validate cross-client functionality and ensure reusable modules behave consistently across multiple configurations
- Perform exploratory and functional testing across finance-sensitive workflows, including vesting, leaver processes, and accounting exports
- Confirm permission boundaries, client scoping, and multi-tenant data isolation
- Reproduce, document, and track bugs with clear reproduction steps, screenshots, and logs
- Maintain and execute manual regression test suites for critical workflows and production releases
- Assist with final regression testing ahead of production deployments
- Collaborate with Product Managers and Product Owners to ensure acceptance criteria are testable and clearly defined
- Work closely with the Senior QA Engineer to identify flaky tests, test data gaps, and testing improvements
- Partner with developers to validate edge cases and ensure shared understanding of expected behaviour
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across QA processes and release management
- Support the long-term evolution toward automation testing and reliability engineering practices
Requirements:
- Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field advantageous
- Strong manual testing skills with a structured and detail-oriented approach
- Ability to write clear and comprehensive bug reports and test cases
- Experience testing web applications with complex business logic
- Familiarity with GitHub, staging environments, and web-based admin tools
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Good communication and collaboration abilities
Beneficial Experience:
- 2+ years’ experience within QA, software testing, or product validation environments
- Exposure to multi-tenant or B2B SaaS platforms
- Understanding of Django admin environments, permissions, and relational databases
- Exposure to payroll, accounting, or HR systems
- Familiarity with Postman, Selenium, Cypress, or similar testing tools
- Basic understanding of APIs, logs, and debugging tools such as Sentry or browser console outputs
- Exposure to automation testing concepts and frameworks
Technical & Professional Skills:
- Manual software testing and exploratory testing
- Regression testing and release validation
- Bug tracking and defect management
- Test planning and documentation
- Web application testing
- SaaS platform testing
- Basic API and log analysis
- Cross-functional collaboration within Agile environments
- Understanding of QA best practices and SDLC processes
Preferred Qualifications:
- Relevant tertiary qualification in IT, Computer Science, or Software Engineering
- Exposure to Agile, Scrum, or product-based software environments
- Interest in QA automation and software reliability engineering
Key Competencies:
- Strong attention to detail
- Curious and investigative mindset
- Structured and methodical approach to testing
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Ability to think from an end-user perspective
- Proactive and solution-driven attitude
- High sense of ownership and accountability
- Passion for software quality and continuous improvement
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment
What’s on Offer:
- Competitive salary package
- Hybrid / Remote working flexibility
- Direct mentorship from a Senior QA Engineer
- Exposure to cutting-edge SaaS and financial technology platforms
- Opportunity to grow into QA Automation and Reliability Engineering
- Collaborative, agile, and no-blame culture
- Career growth within a globally recognised technology group
Company Overview:
ShareForce is an innovative SaaS company specialising in share incentive scheme management technology for global organisations. Backed by the VAT IT Group, one of the world’s largest RegTech groups, ShareForce delivers cutting-edge technology solutions to over 150 companies worldwide across multiple industries and regions.
The business combines world-class infrastructure with a collaborative startup culture, offering employees the opportunity to work alongside highly skilled professionals including accountants, CFAs, developers, mathematicians, and engineers in a fast-growing, technology-driven environment.
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For more information, contact:
Reinie Du Preez
Senior Specialist Recruitment Consultant
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Desired Skills:
- tester
- junior tester
- manual tester
