Senior Software Tester

Careers at DLK Group; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

DLK Group in Cape Town, South Africa, seeks a Senior Software Tester for a contract role. You will own the testing strategy, drive automation initiatives using Playwright, and coordinate with developers to ensure delivery of high-quality software on complex IT projects.

The position requires 5-7 years of testing experience, hands-on skills with SQL databases, and a proven track record in Agile environments.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of professional software testing experience.
• Expert in both manual and automated testing.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead test strategy and planning with stakeholders.
• Design and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks (Playwright).
• Coordinate testing activities with the software team.
• Mentor junior testers and drive quality improvements across the team.
• Validate backend data and CI/CD pipelines to support deployment.
• Manage defects using Jira or Azure DevOps.

Skills

Manual testing

Automation testing

Playwright

SQL & DB testing

Jira / Azure DevOps

Agile/Scrum

Mentorship

Communication

Education

Tertiary qualifications

Testing certifications

ISTQB / CAST

Tools

MS SQL Server

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Stored Procedures

Jira

Azure DevOps

Playwright

Job description

DLK Group | Contract

Senior Software Tester

Cape Town, South Africa | Posted on 07/08/2026

Job Information

• Date Opened 07/08/2026
• Job Type Contract
• Industry IT Services
• Work Experience 5-7 years
• Salary Market related salary
• City Cape Town
• Province Western Cape
• Country South Africa
• Postal Code 7400

Description

The Western Cape Department of Health is looking for a highly skilled Senior / Lead Automation Tester to join a highly motivated engineering team at the Provincial Health Data Centre (PHDC). This role requires an experienced professional who is both technically hands-on and capable of leading, coordinating, and mentoring junior testers.

The successful person will take full ownership of their deliverables as well as the team’s output, ensuring a high standard of quality across all testing initiatives.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead Test Strategy & Planning: Collaborate with stakeholders to define testing scopes, objectives, and robust test strategies.
• Lead Test Automation: Design, build, and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks (using Playwright).
• Execution & Defect Tracking: Perform functional, integration, regression, and API testing. Log, track, and reproduce defects using tools like Jira or Azure DevOps.
• Required to lead the Testing effort. Skill to
• Introduce and adopt processes
• Streamline work
• Coordinate work with the software team
• Environment & Data Validation: Work with databases and CI/CD pipelines to validate backend data integrity and support continuous deployment.
• Mentorship: Guide junior testers, review test scripts, and drive continuous quality improvement across the team.

Requirements & Experience

• Experience: 5 to 7+ years of professional software testing experience, often with a mix of manual and automated testing.
• Technical Skills and Certifications: Tertiary qualifications and/or applicable training in application programming courses and/or International Software Testing Qualifications.
• Experience with MS SQL Server and data access methods, SQL, and extensive work done on Database Technologies (MS SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL) – including familiarity with Stored Procedures.
• Methodologies: Strong experience working within Agile/Scrum and DevOps delivery cycles.
• Good written and verbal communication skills

The Team

• The current team is made up of experienced software developers, analysts, data scientists and database engineers who operate in an agile environment, implementing continuous automation, integrated unit testing and agile processes.