Senior QA Automation Engineer

Boardroom Appointments; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 480,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking an experienced QA Engineer to ensure product stability through early test planning, automation, and reporting to cross-functional teams.

The role requires hands-on testing experience (5-8 years) with Java-based automation (Selenium), API testing (Postman/SoapUI), and strong knowledge of SDLC and QA methodologies. You will collaborate with QA, development, and portfolio teams, mentoring peers and driving quality across projects.

Qualifications

• 5 to 8 years of hands-on experience in Software Testing.
• At least 4 years of hands-on experience in test automation in Selenium with Core Java using standard frameworks (Hybrid, Keyword, TestNG).
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, software QA methodologies, tools and processes.
• Experience in API Testing using SoapUI, Postman, Rest Assured; or Database Testing skills with SQL
• Experience in Performance testing tools - JMeter
• Experienced with version control systems like SVN, Git.
• Know-how to set up Continuous Integration tools will be an advantage.
• Knowledge or working experience of agile methodology

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test plan, test cases with the requisite details and capture test evidence.
• Test planning and execution with focus to ensure end to end testing considering enhancements, impacted areas
• Impacted areas analysis and enhancing manual, automation regression test packs
• Analyze, plan and prepare test data to be used for manual, automated test execution
• Adherence to the established processes and best practices.
• Identify defects and track them through the defect life cycle.
• Develop, Maintain, and debug automation scripts using the existing TestNG based framework for Change and Regression.
• Enhance framework and create reusable methods on need basis.
• Publish test status reports on-demand or as per defined milestones in line with the established framework.
• Work with diverse, distributed teams and collaborate with internal teams.
• Mentor fellow Quality engineers, evangelizing best practices of testing, automation and technical processes.

Skills

Selenium with Java

Test automation

API Testing

SQL

JMeter

OOP Concepts

Version Control

Agile

Communication

CI/CD

Tools

Selenium with Java

TestNG

SoapUI

Postman

Rest Assured

JMeter

SVN

Git

Job description

Boardroom Appointments is seeking an experienced QA Engineer to ensure product stability through early test planning, automation, and reporting to cross-functional teams.

The role requires hands-on testing experience (5-8 years) with Java-based automation (Selenium), API testing (Postman/SoapUI), and strong knowledge of SDLC and QA methodologies. You will collaborate with QA, development, and portfolio teams, mentoring peers and driving quality across projects.