QA Engineer

QA Engineer

Recruiter

Network Recruitment

Job Ref

ITE007763/LM

Date posted

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Location

Stellenbosch, South Africa

Salary

Monthly

SUMMARY

A leading payment solutions provider is seeking a QA Engineer to strengthen their growing team. The role focuses on ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of payment platforms through a mix of manual and automated testing.

The ideal candidate is a detail‑oriented problem solver with strong experience in software testing and automation. They should be passionate about quality, thrive in cross‑functional collaboration, and possess the technical skills to design, build, and maintain effective testing solutions in a fast‑paced development environment.

POSITION INFO

Key Responsibilities: Designing, writing and executing test cases for new and existing functionality. Functional, regression, integration and end-to-end testing of payment systems. Building, maintaining and extending automated test suites in JavaScript. Developing end-to-end automation against web UIs and APIs. Integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and monitoring test stability. Testing new client integrations into our platforms API testing and validation of OpenAPI-based integrations. Logging, tracking and verifying defects through to resolution. Collaborating closely with developers, product and support teams throughout the SDLC. Assisting with UAT and supporting production release verification. Assisting with query resolution and 3rd line support investigations. Job Experience and Skills Required: Tertiary qualification in Software Development, Computer Science, Engineering or a related QA qualification (ISTQB advantageous) 4+ years relevant software QA / testing experience, including hands-on test automation Strong working knowledge of JavaScript for writing automated tests Experience with a modern JS-based automation framework (Playwright or similar) Solid understanding of QA methodologies, test design techniques and the software development lifecycle API testing experience (Postman, REST Assured or similar) and familiarity with OpenAPI SQL (MS SQL Server / Postgres) - ability to query and validate data Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GIT, build tools). Defect tracking tools (e.g. Jira) and strong documentation skills. Experience with Playwright, performance testing tools (JMeter, Grafana k6), and containerised test environments (Docker) will be advantageous. Apply now! For more exciting IT vacancies, please visit: I also specialise in recruiting in the following: Software Developers Mobile Developers Business and Systems Analysts BI and SQL Experts If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles / positions. For more information, contact: Lameez Mohamed Specialist Recruitment Consultant Connect with me on LinkedIn!