Software Quality Engineers

Boardroom Appointments; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking Software Quality Engineers to join the QA team in South Africa. The role involves planning, executing, and reporting QA activities across multiple development cycles and releases.

You will design end-to-end test scenarios, automate scripts, review requirements with developers, and contribute to risk analysis and regression testing while ensuring product quality and release readiness.

Qualifications

• Matric and a IT-related degree or tertiary qualification.
• ISTQB Agile foundations certification preferred; advanced optional.
• Experience with test analysis, design, and automation.
• Exposure to TDD and BDD is advantageous.
• Familiarity with Agile and continuous delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Plan, execute, report QA activities across development cycles and releases.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and developers to clarify functionality.
• Design and implement end-to-end test scenarios and debug actions.
• Perform risk analysis and document test results; conduct regression testing.
• Review requirements and designs to provide timely feedback.
• Create detailed test plans and cases; develop automation scripts.
• Identify and track bugs; enforce testing processes for products.
• Set standards to determine product quality and release readiness.

Skills

ISTQB Agile foundations

Agile & DevOps bootcamp

Test analysis & design

TDD exposure

BDD exposure

CD/Continuous delivery

NFT performance/load testing

Understanding architecture

DevOps pipelines/tools exposure

Education

Matric (Grade 12)

BSc IT or BCom IT or equivalent

Tools

Selenium

Appium

RestAssured

Karate

Jira

JMeter

SOAP/REST services

Job description

About the job Software Quality Engineers

• Matric (Grade 12)
• BSc IT or BCom IT or similar qualification
• ISTQB Agile foundations cert (advanced preferred)
• Bootcamp training in Agile and DevOps.
• Test analysis and design.
• Exposure to Test Driven Development (TDD) advantageous.
• Experience in Behaviour Driven Development (BDD).
• Exposure within a continuous delivery model preferred.
• Experience in NFT (Performance, load, stress).
• Ability to understand and interpret logical solution architecture.
• Understanding/exposure/experience of DevOps pipelines and tools.

Responsibilities:

• Works across multiple teams to ensure the planning, execution, reporting, and successfulcompletion of QA activities for all new development cycles for various releases.
• Contributes to Agile-related user story review meetings and/or work with relevant businessstakeholders and developers to understand the new or modified application functionality.
• Designs and implements end-to-end test scenarios, as well as debugging and definingcorrective actions.
• Contributes to performing and documenting risk analysis and record test progress andresults. Performing thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.
• Works across multiple teams to review requirements, specifications, and technical designdocuments to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
• Creates detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.
• Designs, develops, codes, and executes automation scripts.
• Works across multiple teams to identify, record, document thoroughly, and track bugs anddevelop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs.
• Develops standards and procedures to determine product quality and release readiness.
• Development languages, preference to Java.
• Object orientated programming (OOP).
• SOAP and RESTFUL services.
• Use of testing tools and frameworks (eg Selenium, Appium, RestAssured, Karate, Jira,JMeter).
• Service virtualisation and data virtualisation advantageous.