Senior QA Engineer: Automation & Exploratory Testing

Boardroom Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 550,000 - 850,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments in Cape Town seeks a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst to ensuring high-quality software across Android, iOS and Web platforms. Join a collaborative team, understand product context and drive testing throughout sprints and releases.

The role emphasizes risk-based testing, automation collaboration (Cucumber), and mentoring of junior QA staff to continuously improve the test suite. You will work closely with product owners and engineers to deliver reliable software.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of full-time software development or testing experience.
• Experience in QA practices within an Agile environment is preferred.
• Ability to mentor junior team members and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Understand product, business and user context.
• Identify and prioritise product risks for testing.
• Develop test cases and acceptance criteria with the team and client.
• Create Cucumber feature files with engineers to automate tests.
• Execute tests including exploratory testing and capture evidence with steps to reproduce.
• Interpret automated test results to help maintain the test suite.
• Plan test strategy for releases and per sprint.
• Coordinate with engineers and team on planning and timelines.
• Defend quality of the end product to clients and team.

Skills

Agile testing

Communication

Mentoring

Team player

Big-picture thinking

Time management

Learning mindset

Problem solving

Feedback culture

Job description

Boardroom Appointments in Cape Town seeks a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst to ensuring high-quality software across Android, iOS and Web platforms. Join a collaborative team, understand product context and drive testing throughout sprints and releases.

The role emphasizes risk-based testing, automation collaboration (Cucumber), and mentoring of junior QA staff to continuously improve the test suite. You will work closely with product owners and engineers to deliver reliable software.