Software Tester (Remote)

Datafin IT Recruitment; Johannesburg; Remote; ZAR 500 000 - 700 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an experienced Software Tester in Johannesburg. The role involves testing SaaS and customer-hosted solutions across various industries, focusing on both manual and automated testing. The ideal candidate should have relevant qualifications, ISTQB certification, and a collaborative mindset. This full-time position offers the opportunity to work on pioneering projects that drive quality assurance in software development.

Qualifications

• At least ISTQB Foundation certification is essential.
• Experience in API Testing (using Postman or similar tool) and scripting using JavaScript, Python or similar is essential.
• Strong collaboration and teamwork are essential.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Development and Sales teams to understand user flows.
• Create and maintain a repository of test plans for regression testing.
• Execute API testing and support backend quality assurance.
• Write reusable automated tests for feature level testing.
• Provide reporting on testing progress and quality metrics.

Skills

API Testing

Collaboration

Manual Testing

Test Automation

Scripting (JavaScript/Python)

Agile Environment

Education

Relevant tertiary qualification

ISTQB Foundation certification

Tools

Postman

Cypress

LoadRunner

AWS

Docker/Kubernetes

Job description

DataFin was established in 1999. We pride ourselves on the fact that we have established relationships with industry leaders and a vast majority of our business is repeat business.

Duties & Responsibilities

Our client is seeking an experienced Software Tester to join their cross-functional team working on a groundbreaking AI platform that builds Digital Twins of top experts enabling organizations to capture scale and share critical knowledge. The role involves testing both SaaS and customer-hosted solutions across industries such as insurance, healthcare and banking. While the immediate focus will be on manual testing, the successful candidate will also be responsible for establishing and maturing an automated testing framework ensuring quality throughout the delivery life cycle. This is an exciting opportunity for a detail‑oriented tester with strong manual testing experience who is eager to drive the transition towards robust test automation.

Duties

• Collaborate with Development and Sales teams as well as other stakeholders to understand the end-to-end business process and user flows. Translate these flows into end-to-end tests. These test cases will span both the SaaS and customer hosted platforms.
• Create and maintain a thorough and well-organized repository of test plans and test cases for testing during major releases as well as for regression testing purposes.
• Own testing effort estimation scheduling and integration into release planning.
• Provide clear and actionable reporting on testing progress, risks and quality metrics.

Automated and Regression Testing

• Write high quality and reusable automated tests for feature level testing.
• Integrate these tests into the delivery pipeline for regression and release testing.
• Advise on unit test coverage and maintain unit test execution.

Performance and Backend Testing

• Execute API testing and support backend quality assurance.
• Build and execute performance testing build‑up benchmarks and contribute to the overall confidence in system performance.

General

• Be responsible for maintaining the integrity of the testing environment.
• Create and maintain test data sets.
• Be involved throughout the development life cycle and contribute to all phases with the focus on test execution.
• Analyse and comprehend software requirements and technical specifications.
• Establish and maintain quality assurance principles; set up and maintain a test management system including reporting.
• Collaborate to Agile execution and QA best practices.

Essential Skill Requirements

• A relevant tertiary qualification is essential.
• At least ISTQB Foundation certification is essential. All additional ISTQB or similar qualifications are advantageous (i.e. Automation Tester, Test Analyst etc.).
• Experience in API Testing (using Postman or similar tool) and scripting (using JavaScript, Python or similar) is essential.
• Working knowledge in an Agile environment is essential.
• Strong collaboration and teamwork are essential.

Advantageous Skills

• Experience with Cypress advantageous.
• NoSQL knowledge for validation and back‑end testing advantageous.
• Experience working in AWS / GCP is advantageous.
• Familiarity with NextJS, CSS, JavaScript and TypeScript, MongoDB, Docker / Kubernetes is advantageous.
• Experience using performance testing tools like LoadRunner advantageous.
• Sound knowledge of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles is advantageous.

While we would really like to respond to every application. Should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.

Employment Type

• Full‑Time

Vacancy

• 1