Senior QA Analyst — SaaS Testing & Migrations

Simply Outsourcing; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Simply Outsourcing is seeking a detail-focused QA tester to join our testing team in South Africa. You’ll own exploratory and regression testing across SaaS features, ensuring reliability before go-live and guiding bug reports through our systems.

You’ll work with senior engineers and co-founders, maintaining Playwright end-to-end tests, validating money paths, migrations, and data integrity, while keeping documentation up to date and communicating in clear written English.

Qualifications

• 3+ years testing web SaaS products, with at least one role where you were the main or only tester.
• Ability to plan tests based on risk and explain priorities.
• Hands-on exploratory and regression testing, with lightweight test case tracking.
• Proficient in Playwright in TypeScript; Cypress experience transfers.
• API testing with Postman, or Playwright’s request API, including error handling and webhooks.
• SQL to check data landed in Postgres after actions.
• Ability to read GitHub Actions CI runs and distinguish flaky tests from real failures.
• Clear, reproducible bug reports in GitHub Issues, Linear or Jira.
• Good written English, since most of the job is written.

Responsibilities

• Explore and test every feature before live release across browsers and mobile.
• Own the release checklist and regression runs for every release.
• Maintain and update Playwright end-to-end tests; add cases for found bugs.
• Provide clear bug reports with steps, screenshots and severity; verify fixes.
• Test critical money paths: Stripe subscriptions, credits, and financial calculators.
• Ensure data separation between customers and migration accuracy.
• Keep test cases and known issues documentation up to date.

Skills

Exploratory testing

Regression testing

Risk-based planning

Written communication

Test case management

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Postman

SQL

Job description

Simply Outsourcing is seeking a detail-focused QA tester to join our testing team in South Africa. You’ll own exploratory and regression testing across SaaS features, ensuring reliability before go-live and guiding bug reports through our systems.

You’ll work with senior engineers and co-founders, maintaining Playwright end-to-end tests, validating money paths, migrations, and data integrity, while keeping documentation up to date and communicating in clear written English.