QA Engineer: Manual & Automation for Automotive Platform

Pinewood.AI; Cape Town; Híbrido; ZAR 420.000 - 660.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Pinewood.AI is seeking a technically strong QA Engineer to own quality strategy for our Automotive Intelligence Platform in a hybrid model (approx. 2/3 days onsite).

You will focus on thoughtful, risk‑based testing and clear communication with engineering and product teams to ensure features are fit for purpose and releasable. You will perform functional, regression, exploratory, and integration testing, validate requirements, and raise actionable defects with solid reproduction steps.

Formación

• Strong manual testing experience in Agile environments.
• Experience with at least one automation tool or framework (e.g. Playwright, Cypress, Selenium).
• Solid understanding of testing principles and techniques.
• Ability to test across browsers, devices, and environments.
• Experience with defect tracking tools (e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps).
• API testing basics (e.g. Postman).
• Comfortable validating data (basic SQL or equivalent).
• Familiarity with version control (Git) is a plus.
• Thinks like a user, not just a tester.
• Focuses on risk and impact, not box‑ticking.
• Cares deeply about shipped quality.
• Shift left experience in the development cycle.

Responsabilidades

• Own manual testing for assigned features from refinement to release.
• Design and execute meaningful test scenarios, not just scripted cases.
• Perform functional, regression, exploratory, and integration testing.
• Validate requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Identify risk, edge cases, and user‑impacting defects early.
• Provide clear go/no‑go quality assessments for releases.
• Raise clear, actionable defects with strong reproduction steps.
• Assess severity, priority, and customer impact.
• Work closely with developers to support root‑cause analysis.
• Retest fixes thoroughly and verify acceptance.
• Engage actively in backlog refinement, planning, and retros.
• Challenge unclear or incomplete requirements constructively.
• Communicate quality status, risks, and confidence clearly.
• Contribute ideas to improve QA practices and consistency.
• Support regression and release testing activities.
• Contribute towards information security strategy and compliance.

Conocimientos

Manual testing

Automation testing

Testing principles

Cross-browser testing

Risk-based testing

User-centric thinking

Shift left

Herramientas

Jira

Azure DevOps

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Git

Descripción del empleo

Pinewood.AI is seeking a technically strong QA Engineer to own quality strategy for our Automotive Intelligence Platform in a hybrid model (approx. 2/3 days onsite).

You will focus on thoughtful, risk‑based testing and clear communication with engineering and product teams to ensure features are fit for purpose and releasable. You will perform functional, regression, exploratory, and integration testing, validate requirements, and raise actionable defects with solid reproduction steps.