QA Engineer (Playwright/Cypress, Azure DevOps, API Automation) - Contract - Sandton (in-office)

Experience | Skills | Capability:

• Degree or diploma including 4+ years' working experience in the testing competency, covering both automated and manual testing.

• AZ-900 certification and other Azure certifications relevant to QA.

• Experience with test automation and continuous integration/delivery tools such as Playwright, Cucumber, Cypress, Appium, JMeter, Selenium, RestAssured, and RestSharp.

• Proficiency with Azure DevOps.

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining Azure DevOps Pipelines and Test Plans, orchestrating load tests with Azure Load Testing, and instrumenting releases with Azure Monitor/Application Insights.

• Support the maintenance and enhancement of the CI/CD pipeline.

• Strong technical knowledge and an ability to train development teams in the usage of test frameworks and infrastructure.

• Ability to navigate SQL or run queries to set up test data and validate technical aspects of initiatives.

• Knowledge of REST API and web/mobile GUI testing, as well as experience writing automated API tests.

• Familiarity with AI-enabled testing tools and enthusiasm for exploring emerging approaches.

• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills; comfortable working in agile, DevOps-oriented environments.

Result:

• Automated regression, API, and performance suite coverage of critical user journeys.

• Improved release cycle time through reliable, fast feedback loops.

• Reduced defect escape rate to production year-on-year.

• CI/CD pipeline health dashboards surface quality gates and AI-generated test insights in real time.

• Development teams adopt automation best practice through coaching and enablement.

• Test plans and test cases are maintained and improved.

• Defect management is clear, consistent, and traceable.

• Regression maintenance is actively managed.

• Active participation in the QA guild and QA community.

• Undertake any reasonable duties, aligned to your skills, that are required to achieve team objectives.