Senior Qa Automation Engineer

Titan Wealth Holdings Limited; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading wealth management firm in Cape Town is looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer. In this role, you will innovate testing practices while ensuring secure and reliable software. You will work closely within a collaborative Agile team and participate in proactive planning and improvement of testing processes. Ideal candidates should have experience with automation tools like Selenium and a solid understanding of testing fundamentals.

Benefits

Competitive salary

20+ days annual leave

Performance-related bonus

Training budget allowance

Hybrid offices

Qualifications

• Solid foundational knowledge of testing fundamentals and industry best practices.
• Experienced in conducting both technical and analytical reviews.
• Experienced with QA automation and tools.

Responsibilities

• Innovate and implement according to best practices to produce tested, secure, reliable solutions.
• Proactively contribute to planning, story writing, and identifying risks.
• Assess and improve current testing frameworks and strategies.

Skills

Testing fundamentals

Risk-based testing

Automation tools (Selenium, JMeter)

REST APIs and JSON

Agile Scrum experience

Tools

Selenium

JMeter

Git

Job description

About Titan Wealth

Titan Wealth is a fast-growing wealth management business, both in the UK and internationally.

It has evolved a fairer, more efficient and effective business model, structured to deliver leading advice-led wealth management services, giving financial advisers and their clients the best opportunity to fulfil their dreams and ambitions.

We provide a dynamic work environment full of opportunity, one where both individual and team initiative and contribution is encouraged, so that together we can deliver better outcomes for our clients over the long term.

One Shared Culture

• Multi-disciplinary teams working together on challenges and masterfully delivering award-winning, cutting‑edge solutions.
• An informal atmosphere where leaders are accessible to problem‑solve or provide support – in person or remotely.
• Your personal wellbeing is front and centre with a commitment to making you feel comfortable.

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Our QA automation engineers welcome any chance to innovate and use their initiative, but they do so while implementing according to best practices in order to produce tested, secure, reliable, and scalable software and solutions. You don't just checkboxes, you are required to think outside the box and test accordingly.

When you test you try and break things, you think about security and scalability.

You consider the bigger picture not just going through the same repetitive flow (automation can do that). Monitor the sprint queues and be aware of what is happening in the current sprint and what is planned for future sprints.

Proactively contribute to the preparation and planning, story writing, estimation, identifying of risks or simply just giving advice at the right time. Proactively engage and work as part of a highly effective and collaborative team in order to understand requirements and develop well‑considered, and well‑structured test plans, test cases or automated scripts.

Develop a holistic understanding of our proprietary system, business processes and the technology involved; proactively identify any shortcomings in understanding by facilitating the sharing of knowledge, ideas and insights amongst the team and contributing to our knowledge base. Be a pioneer, help drive our innovation and chart our course with iterative improvement.

Proactively assess the current testing frameworks, strategies, and plans. Identifying areas of improvement and growth for the team and how they could impact the broader tech team. Adhere to Consumer Duty outcomes.

Qualifications

Solid foundational knowledge of testing fundamentals and industry best practices. Excellent understanding of high to low‑level test case design and implementation. Experienced in risk‑based testing analysis and design. Experienced in black box and other experience‑based test techniques (error guessing, checklist‑based testing, exploratory testing, defect‑based testing). Experienced in conducting both technical and analytical reviews (professionally reviewing peer scripts and test cases ensuring the quality of test‑related work). Experienced with QA automation and a strong understanding of automation tools such as Selenium, Nightwatch, JMeter, Postman, etc. Experienced with REST APIs, JSON and the underlying protocols (HTTP/S, TCP/IP); manually testing against these endpoints using tools or scripting automated tests. Experienced with designing, implementing, reviewing, maintaining and execution of automated tests and clearly documenting and reporting the results. Experienced with performance, scale and load‑based automated testing. Experienced with version control (Git) and a good understanding of branching and merging. Experienced with development tools to troubleshoot and debug web‑based applications. Experienced working as part of an Agile Scrum team.

Bonus: A keen interest in understanding and exploring the latest CI/CD, DevOps, and automated testing technologies. Bonus: Proven experience using a programming language such as C#, JAVA, JavaScript, PHP, Python, etc. Bonus: Proven experience using SQL, from simple statements and queries to working with functions and stored procedures.

Why Work for Us?

Our employees are talented people, distinguished by excellence.

• Creativity – we recognise we need new ways of thinking, learning and doing to both improve our own productivity and efficiency as well as to help us stay ahead of competitors.
• Commitment – we are a team with the willingness to put time, effort and energy into driving change in the organisation, going the extra mile.
• Collaboration – we need teamwork amongst ourselves and with partners to generate more innovative, efficient and effective solutions and thereby a greater sense of achievement.

Terms

• Competitive salary – we keep up with the latest market trends and strive to pay competitively.
• Competitive holiday leave – 20+ days' annual leave (earn an extra day for every year worked, up to 3 extra days)
• Performance‑related discretionary annual bonus.
• Retirement, Risk, and Medical‑Aid contribution – we will contribute to a medical aid of your choosing.
• Training budget allowance for further study or attending conferences, including paid days off to study.
• Hybrid offices – located in Century City, Cape Town.

Equal Opportunity

The Titan Wealth Group is firmly committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for everyone who works with us, regardless of their race, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, physical ability or disability, or political affiliation.

We believe that having a diverse team allows us to create the best possible outcomes for our clients and team members.

We strive to provide equal opportunities in all aspects of the workplace with respect to recruitment and career advancement, pay and benefits, training and development opportunities and other job‑related activities.