Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Digioutsource; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital gaming company in Cape Town is looking for a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer. This role involves leading automation testing processes and collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure software quality. Candidates should have at least 5 years of automation testing experience and a relevant computer science degree. The position offers various benefits such as free meals, on-site gym, and leadership training, fostering a dynamic and supportive work environment.

Benefits

Free Daily Meal

Free Massages On-site

Free On-site Gym

Medical Aid Subsidy

Team socials

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years hands-on automation testing experience.
• Experience in working with agile teams and delivering agile-based software projects.
• Advanced experience with test automation tools and strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead test scenario definition integrating ATDD/BDD principles.
• Troubleshoot complex issues and coordinate with developers.
• Mentor Intermediate and Junior QA Engineers.

Skills

Automation testing

Communication skills

Agile methodology

C#

TypeScript/JavaScript

Education

Computer Science degree or similar

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Visual Studio

Postman

GitLab

Job description

Overview

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Who We Are

We’re part of Super Group, the NYSE‑listed digital gaming company behind some of the world’s leading Sports and iGaming brands. At DigiOutsource, we bring passionate people and innovative tech together to create market‑leading online gaming solutions. Our multidisciplinary teams are passionate about products, customer experience and security. We’re empowered to achieve the ultimate in high‑performance gaming experiences using the best technology available.

Why we need you

We’re on a mission to create extraordinary experiences for our customers, and we believe that your unique skills, passion and drive will help us achieve our vision. The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer will undertake the responsibility for analysing, planning, setting up, monitoring, maintaining, troubleshooting, and reporting on advanced automated testing processes across diverse platforms. This individual should possess advanced test‑automation skills and work closely and proactively with the Development and DevOps teams to deliver superior quality software while continuously enhancing test effectiveness and efficiency.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Involvement in user story definition and test scenarios: Lead test scenario definition, integrating ATDD/BDD principles and ensuring comprehensive test coverage.
• Support with issue reproduction and resolution: Troubleshoot complex issues across environments and coordinate with developers and DevOps root causes effectively.
• Collaboration with developers and DevOps: Build strong collaboration with DevOps and developers, ensuring smooth integration and troubleshooting across environments.
• Cross‑Team Collaboration: Lead quality discussions with cross‑functional teams, ensuring alignment on quality objectives and timelines.
• Agile/Scrum practices: Drive QA contributions to Agile ceremonies, embedding quality into every sprint milestone.
• Continuous Improvement Initiatives: Lead retrospectives, driving meaningful changes to QA and development workflows.
• Risk Management and Impact Assessment: Proactively mitigate risks through root cause analysis and recommend preventive measures.
• Quality standards and defect prevention: Own quality metrics and proactively implement measures to enhance system reliability and user experience.
• Customer Advocacy: Advocate for customer‑focused quality improvements and ensure testing aligns with user needs.
• Automation creation and maintenance: Define and refine automation approaches, owning the setup and maintenance of robust, scalable automation suites.
• Automation strategies and tools: Lead strategy definition and introduce innovative solutions to improve testing efficiency and coverage.
• Tool and Framework Development: Identify gaps in tools and recommend or develop custom solutions to enhance efficiency.
• Metrics and performance reporting: Own and report on quality and automation metrics, offering actionable recommendations to improve efficiency.
• Governance and QA principles: Define and enforce governance standards, ensuring QA principles are consistently applied across teams.
• Technical leadership and mentoring: Mentor Intermediate and Junior QA Engineers while actively participating in hiring and skills assessments.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities. You may be required to complete other reasonable duties to achieve business objectives.

Essential Skills

• Minimum of 5 years hands‑on automation testing experience.
• Computer Science related degree, diploma, or similar qualification.
• ISTQB Foundation Level.
• Experience in working with agile teams and successfully delivering agile‑based software projects.
• Utilising dev tools like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
• Comfortable with source control tools, like GitLab.
• Ability to write integration and UI tests.
• Experience using automation frameworks and tools like Playwright, Selenium (NOT IDE), NUnit.
• Experience in using TypeScript/JavaScript, C#, JSON.
• API testing using Postman or in‑code.
• Experience with designing, creating, and maintaining automation frameworks.
• Communication skills – ability to communicate with clients, peers and line management.
• Experience with agile and the Scrum or Kanban methodology.
• Advanced experience with test automation tools and strategies.
• Advanced experience of using BDD effectively.
• Advanced proven experience with C#/Java and JavaScript.
• Experience with any of the following frameworks: WebDriver (not IDE) / WebDriver.IO / Cypress / TestCafe / RestShap / RestAssured.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for continuous testing.
• Dedicated to staying updated on the latest testing tools and technologies, with the ability to adapt to new frameworks as needed.

Desirable Skills

• ISTQB Advanced Level Certifications.
• Previous exposure to Microsoft Azure DevOps & VSTS.
• Experience with actively developing & managing Docker infrastructure.
• YAML / Kubernetes.
• Cloud (Azure), Azure DevOps.
• Knowledge of Message Broker Systems.
• Comfortable with using Kibana, Grafana.
• Capable of reading and writing Mongo collections.
• Exposure to SauceLabs/BrowserStack or similar tools for mobile testing.

Core Values & Behavioural Competencies

• Adaptability
• Ownership and accountability
• Initiating action
• Resilience
• Team orientation
• Integrity
• Innovation

What You’ll Get Back

• Free Daily Meal
• Free Massages On‑site
• Free On‑site Gym
• Group Life Cover
• Funeral Fund Benefit
• Financial Services Assistance
• Curso School Fees Benefit
• Income Continuation Benefit
• Leadership Training
• Referral Bonus
• Medical Aid Subsidy
• Free Sleep Coaching
• On‑site Barista
• Retirement Annuity Subsidy
• Team socials

Employment Details

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
Employment type: Full‑time
Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting, Software Development, and Retail

Additional Notices

This position requires trust and honesty – it has access to customers’ financial details – therefore a credit and criminal record check will be conducted. By applying for this role and supplying the necessary details, you hereby grant us permission to conduct these checks. If you do not hear from us within 2 weeks, please deem your application as unsuccessful.