About the position
Our client is a leading South African payment aggregator, enabling secure and efficient bill payments across a broad network of payment channels. Processing millions of transactions each month, they are continuously enhancing their technology platforms and building modern data infrastructure to support financial reporting, fraud detection, artificial intelligence initiatives, and operational analytics.
They are seeking a QA Engineer to join their growing technology team. This role will be responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of their payment platforms through a combination of manual and automated testing practices.
The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented problem solver with strong software testing and test automation experience. They should be passionate about delivering high-quality software, enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams, and possess the technical skills required to design, build, and maintain effective testing frameworks and solutions within a fast-paced development environment.
Key responsibilities:
- Designing, writing, and executing test cases for new and existing functionality
- Functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing of payment systems
- Building, maintaining, and extending automated test suites in JavaScript
- Developing end-to-end automation against web UIs and APIs
- Integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and monitoring test stability
- Testing new client integrations into our platforms API testing and validation of OpenAPI-based integrations
- Logging, tracking, and verifying defects through to resolution
- Collaborating closely with developers, product, and support teams throughout the SDLC
- Assisting with UAT and supporting production release verification
- Assisting with query resolution and 3rd line support investigations
- All other tasks related to the role
Essential minimum qualifications, skills, and experience:
- Tertiary qualification in Software Development, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related QA qualification (ISTQB advantageous)
- 4+ years relevant software QA / testing experience, including hands-on test automation
- Strong working knowledge of JavaScript for writing automated tests
- Experience with a modern JS-based automation framework (Playwright or similar)
- Solid understanding of QA methodologies, test design techniques, and the software development lifecycle
- API testing experience (Postman, REST Assured or similar) and familiarity with OpenAPI
- SQL (MS SQL Server / Postgres) - ability to query and validate data
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GIT, build tools)
- Defect tracking tools (e.g. Jira) and strong documentation skills
- Advantageous:
- Experience with Playwright, performance testing tools (JMeter, Grafana k6), and containerised test environments (Docker) will be advantageous.
- Exposure to financial transaction processing systems, payment switching platforms (e.g. Postilion), Agile/Scrum methodologies, and front-end testing of Angular applications will be advantageous.
General:
- We are committed to fair and inclusive hiring. All suitably qualified applicants are welcome to apply.
- Preference may be given in line with our client’s Employment Equity plan and applicable legislation.
- Applicants must have the legal right to work in South Africa at the time of application.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from us within 30 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
- Please include your current remuneration (CTC), salary expectation, and notice period (optional but helpful for screening).
- By applying, you consent to the processing of your personal information for recruitment purposes in accordance with POPIA.
Desired Skills:
- APIs
- Automation Testing
- JavaScript
- Jira
- Quality Assurance
- SDLC
- Software
