Lead Automation Test Engineer (Playwright)

DLK Group

Cape Town

On-site

ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Cape Town, South Africa — The Western Cape Department of Health seeks a Senior/Lead Automation Tester for the Provincial Health Data Centre (PHDC). You will own testing deliverables, lead a motivated team, and ensure high-quality outcomes across all testing initiatives.

You will design test strategies, build scalable Playwright-based automation, and coordinate with developers in an Agile/DevOps environment. Mentorship of junior testers and strong data validation skills are essential.

Qualifications

5 to 7+ years of professional software testing experience with manual and automated testing.
Tertiary qualifications and/or applicable training in software testing or programming.
Experience with MS SQL Server and databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) including stored procedures.
Strong Agile/Scrum and DevOps delivery experience.
Good written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

Lead Test Strategy & Planning in collaboration with stakeholders.
Lead Test Automation and maintain scalable frameworks (Playwright).
Execute functional, integration, regression, and API tests; track defects in Jira/Azure DevOps.
Lead the testing effort, introduce and adopt processes.
Streamline workflows and coordinate with the software team.
Validate environment, data, and CI/CD pipelines; ensure data integrity.
Mentor junior testers and drive continuous quality improvement.