Senior QA Automation Engineer: Web/API & CI/CD

Solas IT Recruitment; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 960,000; Full time

Job summary

Solas IT Recruitment is seeking an experienced Senior QA Automation Engineer to join a cross-functional product team in Johannesburg. The role focuses on expanding automated test coverage across web applications, APIs and integrations, while staying hands-on with manual and exploratory testing where automation is not suitable.

You will work with developers, Product and stakeholders to identify risks early, improve testability and deliver reliable software with confidence.

Qualifications

• At least four years’ commercial experience in software quality assurance or test engineering.
• Strong hands‑on experience developing and maintaining automated tests.
• Experience with a modern UI automation framework such as Playwright, Cypress or Selenium.
• Experience automating API and integration testing.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of automation framework design, test architecture and maintainable test code.
• Experience testing web applications and business-critical software systems.
• Strong manual, exploratory and regression testing capabilities.
• Experience validating data using SQL and relational databases.
• Familiarity with Git and modern software development workflows.
• Experience working within Agile product and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain automated test suites for web applications, APIs and system integrations.
• Expand automated regression coverage and reduce reliance on repetitive manual testing.
• Build reusable, maintainable and scalable automation frameworks and components.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and support continuous testing practices.
• Analyse automated test results, investigate failures and work with developers to resolve issues.
• Review existing automation coverage and identify areas where additional automation would provide the greatest value.
• Help establish and improve automation standards, frameworks and best practices.
• Participate in code and test automation reviews.

Skills

Analytical skills

Troubleshooting

Communication

Mentoring junior QA

Test engineering mindset

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

API testing tools

SQL

CI/CD

Git

Job description

Solas IT Recruitment is seeking an experienced Senior QA Automation Engineer to join a cross-functional product team in Johannesburg. The role focuses on expanding automated test coverage across web applications, APIs and integrations, while staying hands-on with manual and exploratory testing where automation is not suitable.

You will work with developers, Product and stakeholders to identify risks early, improve testability and deliver reliable software with confidence.