Remote Test Engineer: Quality Assurance & Automation

Simera; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Simera seeks a meticulous Test Engineer in South Africa to design, execute, and improve testing processes ensuring software meets functional and quality standards. You will collaborate with development and product teams across the software lifecycle, performing manual and automated testing, API and database checks as needed.

The role involves identifying defects, maintaining test documentation, and supporting release validation while driving quality improvements and automation coverage.

Qualifications

• Hands-on testing experience across software platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute comprehensive test plans and cases.
• Perform functional, regression, and exploratory testing.
• Identify, reproduce, and track defects with detailed evidence.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts when applicable.
• Coordinate with developers and product teams to resolve issues.
• Support release testing and validation activities.
• Monitor results and communicate quality risks to stakeholders.
• Maintain documentation of testing activities.

Skills

Testing methodologies

Analytical thinking

Manual testing

Automated testing

Defect tracking

Bug reproduction and documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Jira

TestRail

Azure DevOps

Postman

Job description

Simera seeks a meticulous Test Engineer in South Africa to design, execute, and improve testing processes ensuring software meets functional and quality standards. You will collaborate with development and product teams across the software lifecycle, performing manual and automated testing, API and database checks as needed.

The role involves identifying defects, maintaining test documentation, and supporting release validation while driving quality improvements and automation coverage.