186 Quality Engineer jobs in South Africa

The Quality Supervisor is responsible for ensuring the highest standards of quality are met in all aspects of the Production process. The Quality supervisor will ensure that all products meet the customer requirements and

maintain the integrity of the Production process. The supervisor will also supervise quality team and ensures that all tasks are completed effectively.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION Relevant Diploma in Quality, Manufacturing, Engineering, and related fields

ISO certification

Relevant bachelor's degree in quality, Manufacturing, Engineering and related fields

TECHNICAL PRE-REQUISITE

Quality Control and Quality Assurance :Understanding of QMS is critical

• Reads and Interprets Quality specification data with un understanding of company policies and internal

controls

• Collects and researches data, designs workflows and procedures.

• Proficient in.Auto CAD, Poly Works Faro programs

• Ability to analyse data and make data driven decisions.

• Must fully understand the requirements of the product/material.

• In depth understanding if quality control procedures/systems and relevant legal standards

• Good working knowledge of data analysis/statistical methods

• Familiar with safety protocols and regulatory requirements in a manufacturing environment,

• Strong flair for Quality Administration and Reporting

• Employee and Industrial Relations knowledge

• Participate and manage in projects where required.

• Basic business and financial acumen

• Knowledge of Microsoft applications, with intermediate Excel

• Working Knowledge of Safety

• Quality certification ISO 9001. ISO14001,ITAF 16949

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Overseeing all quality aspects and ensure all products conforms to the applicable approved standards and specifications.

• Champion the implementation and monitoring of ITAF and make recommendations.

• Investigate and resolve Quality Non- conformances.

• Investigate and resolve customer quality complaints.

• Investigate internal and external non- conformances and ensure countermeasures are put in place

• Monitoring and address 4M Changes (Man, M/C, Method and Material) with all relevant parties

• Analyse all defects and take the necessary remedial action

• Analyse data to identify areas of improvement in the Production process

• Conduct process and system audits and resolve findings/discrepancies.

• Act as a customer representative and customer support contact

Actively participate in maintaining ISO certification

• Monthly Reporting of quality metrics and updating of various quality documents, including test plans and protocols

• Oversees the documentation of data obtained during all quality activities consistent with company policies and procedures

• Ensures that all equipment is calibrated timeously and maintain calibration register/schedule

• Maintain customer KPI reporting.

• Monitor adherence to production requirements.

• Implements standards, procedures and processes to meet the required quality standards.

• Develops, maintains and ensures adherence to standard operating procedures and work instructions

• Develop and implement continuous improvement initiatives to improve efficiency, customer service and cost savings.

• Conduct quality training

• Implementation of Health and Safety Standards

• Supervise employees, coordinate the scheduling of work tasks and ensures adherence to quality and safety standards.

• Ensures compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.

Quality Engineer

Recruiter:
Boikago Group

Job Ref:
QUALTENG2025

Date posted:
Monday, June 9, 2025

Location:
Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Salary:
R negotiable

SUMMARY:
Quality Engineer (Automotive)

POSITION INFO:
Quality Engineer (Auto Assembly)
Become part of it and help develop new solutions with your curiosity and ideas. You can expect a diverse team that supports you and wish whom you can grow together and develop your potential. Applications are invited from suitably qualified & experienced candidates to fill the Quality Engineer position in the Quality Engineer – Quality Assurance (Kariega)

Brief Role Description
To plan, define, and lead all departmental project activities, by ensuring that all units are tracked, processed, audited, reworked and signoff, throughout the various End Of Line checkpoints and audits areas, within the prescribed project timelines, enabling a good quality product and effortless management signoff process. Drive product improvements based on top faults detected by investigating route causes and escalating to the causing area to improve the Direct Run Rate.

Key Responsibilities

• Managing and driving all projects related activities for QAVM EOL, during the different phases by ensuring that units are tracked and routed through the correct processes and audited within the agreed timelines.
• Identifying and understanding all new product and process part changes for MY and New model introduction, and presenting to team, for ease of understanding, and inspection, thereby enabling a good sign off product.
• Representing QAVM EOL at all inter divisional projects meetings, and assist, identify and highlight non-conformities and opportunities for improvements, in order to streamline or improve processes.
• Performing and approving all fitment trails of new and changed product parts, prior to introduction with responsible departments, to ensure that parts conform to the required quality specifications, and the desired quality standards are achieved.
• Preparing and presenting project units to management, with the knowledge and background of each unit, and with the relevant information and documentation, to ensure units conform to the required quality acceptant standard, for management signoff.
• Providing information of ECR's and deviations to the team, thereby ensuring that the team is aware and understands the changes and the expectation of quality, when con-ducting inspection, or DKA audits, to ensure a good signoff quality product.
• Escalating the process when quality requirements are not met, to ensure that early preventative actions are taken by the responsible stakeholders, thereby ensuring deadlines are met. (Thorough problem investigation and presentation on a management level)
• Generating project investments requirements, and control expenditure within the approved budget and help to set financial objectives with QAVM EOL Manager.

Qualification Requirements And Experience Needed

• National Diploma/Degree in an Engineering field, B-Tech in Quality Management is an added advantage
• Understanding of the vehicle build process and the required quality output thereof. eg, EOL & Assembly)
• In-depth knowledge of vehicle release processes
• Knowledge of vehicle components and systems.
• Working knowledge of the equipment, fixtures and tools used in the shop.
• Good computer skills (MS office package, SharePoint and Auto Group systems)
• Minimum +-5 years relevant automotive manufacturing experience

Applications must be submitted to or contact / 1328

 
We're Hiring: Quality Engineer (Manual + Automation)

 Cape Town, South Africa
 · 
On-site / Hybrid
 · 
Contract
 · 
5+ years' experience

About the role

We're looking for a seasoned Quality Engineer strong in both 
manual
 and 
automation
 testing. You'll plan & execute test cycles, build and maintain 
UI/API automation
, triage defects, and plug quality checks into 
CI/CD
—working with Engineering and Product to keep releases on track.

What you'll do

• Define & execute test strategies, plans, and cases (functional, integration, regression, UAT)
• Build/extend maintainable 
  UI & API
   automation (Page Object/Screenplay, data-driven)
• Integrate tests into 
  Azure DevOps / Jenkins / GitHub Actions
• Perform 
  API testing
   & 
  SQL
   data validation; manage test data & env readiness
• Track/report defects, trends, and quality metrics with clear, actionable insights
• Work in 
  Agile/Scrum
  ; contribute to DoD/AC and drive shift-left quality improvements

What you'll need

• 5+ years
   in QA/QE with strong manual fundamentals 
  and
   proven automation
• Hands-on with 
  Playwright / Cypress / Selenium
• API testing via 
  Postman / REST Assured
   (or similar) + solid 
  SQL
• CI/CD + 
  Git
   experience; test management with 
  Azure Test Plans / TestRail / Zephyr/Xray
• Scripting in 
  TS/JS, Java, C#, or Python

Nice to have

• Performance (
  k6/JMeter
  ) or mobile (
  Appium
  ); containers/cloud (Docker, K8s, Azure/AWS); BDD (Cucumber/Behave)

How to apply

Email your 
CV
, 
notice period
, and 
salary expectations
 to 

Subject:
 
Quality Engineer – Cape Town (Contract)

We're an equal-opportunity employer. If you don't meet every single requirement but believe you're a great fit, we'd still love to hear from you.

Urgent requirement

Location -Capetown South Africa

Contract - 6 month

1-
Quality Engineer

Organizational Capability Building

Use the organization's formal development framework to identify the team's individual development needs. Plan and implement actions, including continuing professional development specified by professional or regulatory institutions, to build their professional capabilities. Provide informal training or coaching to others throughout the organization in own area of expertise to enable others to improve performance and fulfill personal potential.

• 10+ years in software testing, including at least 3 years in leadership roles, extensive experience in performance and security testing, and a strong background in DevOps practices.
• Expertise in programming languages like Java, JavaScript or Python
• Experience in creating test automation frameworks at both a frontend and backend layer.
• Strong expertise in SQL and test data management approaches
• Mastery of performance testing tools like Apache JMeter or LoadRunner.
• Proficiency in security testing tools like OWASP ZAP or Burp Suite.
• Extensive experience in CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar.
• In-depth understanding of DevOps practices and tools, including containerization and orchestration with tools like Docker and Kubernetes.

Please share your resume

Company Description
Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector's most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We're passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description
To lead the quality engineering approach for functional and non-functional requirements for complex solutions, employing scalable and reliable automated test tools and frameworks. To enable test coverage by planning and driving testing activities across all stages and iterations of product, systems and service development collaborating across several delivery teams. To measure and monitor portfolio application of standards for testing, assessing risks, taking preventative action.

• Drive alignment with the automation initiatives with the system team for the relevant portfolios and applications to ensure standardisation in accordance with the team objectives and strategies
• Intelligent Testing The ability to execute testing through a combination of machine learning, AI processes, and traditional automation practices.
• Coordinate all reporting requirements, including test status, defect monitoring and resolution, risks, metrics definition etc. across all quality engineering activities to ensure that the state of quality engineering is clearly communicated and documented.
• Deliver the consolidated approach to quality engineering and provide input to the deliverable to drive compliance to required standards where applicable.
• Drive alignment with the automation initiatives with the system team for the relevant portfolios and applications to ensure standardisation in accordance with the team objectives and strategies.

Qualifications

• Qualification: Diploma (Information Technology) (Min)

Additional Information

Experience Required:
Software Engineering
5-7 years: Proven working experience in software development Life Cycle

Drive alignment with the automation initiatives with the system team for the relevant portfolios and applications to ensure standardisation in accordance with the team objectives and strategies (Required

Intelligent Testing The ability to execute testing through a combination of machine learning, AI processes, and traditional automation practices (Required)

Behavioural Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Checking Things
• Developing Expertise
• Documenting Facts

Technical Competencies:

• Automation
• Intelligent Testing
• Quality Assurance
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies & Tools
• Structured Test Methods & Processes

More about the Area & Team:

The QA-OPS team plays a critical role in bridging the gap between Quality Assurance (QA) and Development, ensuring smooth, efficient, and high-quality delivery pipelines. As a highly dynamic and innovative team, we focus on creating and maintaining pipelines that support QA efforts while also managing the infrastructure that underpins the testing and deployment processes. Our work directly influences the speed and quality of product releases by optimizing CI/CD workflows, automating tests, and ensuring that the systems we build are scalable, reliable, and continuously improving.

We pride ourselves on being problem-solvers at the intersection of QA and Development, constantly collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive excellence in both software quality and operational efficiency. Whether we're designing solutions for automated testing, enhancing system performance, or providing valuable feedback between development and QA teams, we push the boundaries of what's possible, fostering an environment of continuous learning, growth, and innovation.

If you're excited about working in an environment that thrives on collaboration, innovation, and making a tangible impact on product delivery, this is the place for you

More about the project:

• Problem to solve
• Solution/Deliverable
• Attractive Tech exposure

Solution/Deliverable:

• Design a high-level architecture for the CI/CD pipeline, covering testing, environment management, and tool integration (using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Sauce Labs, and other tools).
• Identify key challenges you anticipate, including potential bottlenecks, resource limitations, and integration issues.
• Propose strategies to overcome these challenges, ensuring the pipeline remains fast, reliable, and scalable.
• Provide detailed suggestions for optimizing test execution, parallelization, and reducing feedback loops for rapid development and quality assurance.
• Highlight collaboration methods between development, QA, and ops teams to ensure smooth workflows across all stages of the pipeline.

Attractive Tech Exposur

e:

• Cutting-edge Testing Frameworks & Tools: Exposure to advanced automation tools like Sauce Labs for cross-platform testing, leveraging cloud-based device farms for mobile testing and supporting a variety of browsers and devices.
• CI/CD with Azure & Jenkins: You'll work with Azure DevOps and Jenkins, gaining hands-on experience with cloud-native and traditional CI/CD pipelines, and customizing workflows to maximize speed, quality, and reliability.
• Hybrid Cloud Environments: Experience managing complex hybrid cloud infrastructures (mix of Azure and on-prem environments), providing valuable knowledge in cloud provisioning, orchestration, and scaling.
• Microservices & Multi-Platform Testing: You will design testing solutions for microservices and cross-platform applications, enhancing your experience in containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and multi-OS testing (Linux, Windows, MacOS, RHEL).
• Collaboration Across Teams: Work closely with development, QA, and ops teams, learning how to integrate diverse workflows, improve team collaboration, and align efforts towards common goals

Job Description / Responsibilities:

• Managing the end-to-end testing delivery – Involved in all the testing phases on the programme including test planning, designing and running of test cases, defect management, monitoring & control, reporting and providing test metrics to the relevant stakeholders.
• Ensuring that the QA teams on the program follows all the processes / phases that need to be completed, like analysis & extraction of test requirements / test scenarios for the project, writing of test case, and execution of all the planned test cases.
• Continuous reporting / feedback on the progress of the testing activities and risks / issues as soon as they are identified to the team and all relevant stakeholders.
• Participate in JAD / walkthrough sessions with an objective of understanding requirements and provide guidance on QA activities.
• Assist the team with determining and providing accurate high-level estimation of test activities as and when is needed.
• Assist in reporting and removing blockers / impediments that are faced by the QA team as soon as they are identified.
• As a caretaker and champion of the QA processes and standards, ensure that the QA processes are always understood and adhered to by all stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership and expertise within the field of quality assurance (QA) and testing to all the stakeholders.
• Ensure that the QA team delivers on the objectives / project set out as well as providing technical leadership to the developers and delivery managers.
• Identify and define opportunities for testing process & procedures' improvements, measures for those improvements and the implementation of the improvements to ensure tha

Background and experience required:

• Years experience
• Industry experience

10+ years 

ISTQB CTAL Testing certification

Banking industry

Must-have Skills (Mandatory Skills):

• Incl. min yrs exp required per skill

·   

10+ years proven testing experience, with at least 5 of the years in test management / leadership role (mandatory).

·   

Strong working experience in functional, non-functional, system, integration and regression testing (mandatory).

·   

Strong understanding /working experience of analysing requirements and extracting test scenarios and test conditions from the business / functional requirements (mandatory).

·   

Strong understanding /working experience of writing test cases from extracted test scenarios (mandatory).

·   

Strong working experience in test planning (mandatory).

·   

Strong working experience in managing a testing delivery end to end across multiple interfaces and teams (mandatory).

·   

Strong communication skills (both verbal & written) across all levels including communication with external stakeholders (mandatory).

·   

Strong working experience in managing stakeholders including business representatives and senior leadership (mandatory).

·   

Strong working experience in providing progress metrics and overall reporting (mandatory).

·   

The potential candidate must be a self-starter and be able to work from home/ offshore with minimal supervision / connectivity issues (Remote working) (mandatory).

·   

Working experience on the test management tools (Test Rail & Jira/X-Ray) (mandatory).

Beneficial Skills (Desired Skills):

·   

ISTQB CTAL Testing certification, i.e. Advanced Test Manager, Advanced Test Analyst (advantageous).

·   

National Diploma in IT / Bachelor's degree (advantageous).

·   

Strong understanding and experience on working with banking systems, both digital platforms and back-office systems (advantageous).

·   

Working experience in the banking / financial services industry (advantageous).

·   

Experience working in an environment that employs agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe, etc) (advantageous).

·   

Exposure to test automation frameworks (Selenium, UFT, Cucumber…etc.) (advantageous).

·   

Working experience in tools like Jira, Confluence, Agile Hive, etc. (advantageous).

Our Company:
At we are passionate about our people, our technology, and are obsessed with customer success. Working together enables us to grow rapidly, win, and serve the largest brands in the world. We use cutting edge technology to solve real-world problems for our clients and continue to pull ahead of the pack as the leading SaaS platform for businesses to automate their partnerships and grow their revenue like never before. We have an entrepreneurial spirit and a culture where ambition and curiosity is rewarded. If you are looking to join a team where your opinion is valued, your contributions are noticed, and enjoy working with fun and talented people from all over the world, then this is the place for you

, the world's leading partnership management platform, is transforming the way businesses manage and optimize all types of partnerships—including traditional rewards affiliates, influencers, commerce content publishers, B2B, and more. The company's powerful, purpose-built platform makes it easy for businesses to create, manage, and scale an ecosystem of partnerships with the brands and communities that customers trust to make purchases, get information, and entertain themselves at home, at work, or on the go. To learn more about how 's technology platform and partnerships marketplace is driving revenue growth for global enterprise brands such as Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L'Oreal, and Fanatics, visit

Your Role at

:
As a quality-focused Senior Quality Engineer, you'll be part of a small FINTECH squad and responsible for owning and driving the squad's testing strategy and quality practises. You'll work across manual and automated testing, contribute to Agile delivery, and help evolve our standards, tooling, and methods. This role is ideal for someone that thrives on continuous improvement, and is eager to become a. This is an opportunity to apply your skills in a domain that you are passionate about: finance, billing and subscription services.

What You'll Do:
Embedded in a Software team

• Be a domain expert in a business-critical billing and subscription product area
• Understand and be a part of the lifecycle of the features that are delivered
• Work with stakeholders, alongside engineers to understand the business need and solution
• Shared ownership of getting the solution over the line

Define and Drive Test Strategy

• Own and evolve the quality strategy for your squad
• Plan, define, and document test strategies and plans
• Script and sign off manual test cases
• Analyse requirements and provide early feedback
• Continuously improve test methods, scope, and coverage
• Drive innovation in QA practices, tools, and frameworks

Build and Maintain Automation Testing

• Maintain and extend an existing Playwright-based automation suite
• Run, debug, and report on regression and functional tests
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Jenkins)
• Create supporting tools or scripts for test data and validation
• Ensure coverage across functional, non-functional, regression, and accessibility testing

Manage Risk and Defects

• Track and manage defects throughout the SDLC
• Participate in risk management activities
• Recommend design improvements or corrections
• Contribute to usability and accessibility testing to ensure user experience quality
• Actively prevent defect recurrence through root cause analysis

Collaborate Across Teams

• Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and designers
• Review designs and specifications for clarity and testability
• Support software validation efforts in collaboration with internal stakeholders and external stakeholders
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to sprint deliverables

Report and Maintain Testing

• Track and communicate key test metrics (coverage, pass rate, flakiness, etc.)
• Maintain and document test frameworks for long-term sustainability
• Proactively monitor production performance and prevent issue recurrence
• Report on automation progress and test runs

What You Have:

• Proven experience in both manual and automated software testing
• Hands-on experience with modern test frameworks - Playwright preferred
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git)
• Strong knowledge of the ISTQB framework
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle, and development best practices
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows
• Experience working in or alongside Agile teams
• A strong sense of ownership, collaboration, and a growth mindset
• Excellent communication skills and attention to detail
• Bonus: experience with subscription billing or financial products

Benefits:

• Hybrid, Casual work environment

• Unlimited PTO policy

• Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive work-life balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both

• Training & Development

• Learning the advanced partnership automation products

• Medical Aid and Provident Fund

• Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid

• Group scheme with 10X for provident fund

• Restricted Stock Units

• 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval

• Internet Allowance

• Fitness club fee reimbursements
• Technology Stipend
• Primary Caregiver Leave
• Mental Health and Wellness Benefit - Including 12 Therapy/Coaching sessions + Dependent coverage

is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
All employees and applicants for employment shall be given fair treatment and equal employment opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity or ancestry, color or caste, religion or belief, age, sex (including gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity), national origin, weight, neurodivergence, disability, marital and civil partnership status, caregiving status, veteran status, genetic information, political affiliation, or other prohibited non-merit factors.
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At we are passionate about our people, our technology, and are obsessed with customer success. Working together enables us to grow rapidly, win, and serve the largest brands in the world. We use cutting edge technology to solve real-world problems for our clients and continue to pull ahead of the pack as the leading SaaS platform for businesses to automate their partnerships and grow their revenue like never before. We have an entrepreneurial spirit and a culture where ambition and curiosity is rewarded. If you are looking to join a team where your opinion is valued, your contributions are noticed, and enjoy working with fun and talented people from all over the world, then this is the place for you

, the world's leading partnership management platform, is transforming the way businesses manage and optimize all types of partnerships—including traditional rewards affiliates, influencers, commerce content publishers, B2B, and more. The company's powerful, purpose-built platform makes it easy for businesses to create, manage, and scale an ecosystem of partnerships with the brands and communities that customers trust to make purchases, get information, and entertain themselves at home, at work, or on the go. To learn more about how 's technology platform and partnerships marketplace is driving revenue growth for global enterprise brands such as Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L'Oreal, and Fanatics, visit

As a quality-focused Senior Quality Engineer, you'll be part of a small FINTECH squad and responsible for owning and driving the squad's testing strategy and quality practises. You'll work across manual and automated testing, contribute to Agile delivery, and help evolve our standards, tooling, and methods. This role is ideal for someone that thrives on continuous improvement, and is eager to become a. This is an opportunity to apply your skills in a domain that you are passionate about: finance, billing and subscription services.

Embedded in a Software team

• Be a domain expert in a business-critical billing and subscription product area
• Understand and be a part of the lifecycle of the features that are delivered
• Work with stakeholders, alongside engineers to understand the business need and solution
• Shared ownership of getting the solution over the line

Define and Drive Test Strategy

• Own and evolve the quality strategy for your squad
• Plan, define, and document test strategies and plans
• Script and sign off manual test cases
• Analyse requirements and provide early feedback
• Continuously improve test methods, scope, and coverage
• Drive innovation in QA practices, tools, and frameworks

Build and Maintain Automation Testing

• Maintain and extend an existing Playwright-based automation suite
• Run, debug, and report on regression and functional tests
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Jenkins)
• Create supporting tools or scripts for test data and validation
• Ensure coverage across functional, non-functional, regression, and accessibility testing

Manage Risk and Defects

• Track and manage defects throughout the SDLC
• Participate in risk management activities
• Recommend design improvements or corrections
• Contribute to usability and accessibility testing to ensure user experience quality
• Actively prevent defect recurrence through root cause analysis

Collaborate Across Teams

• Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and designers
• Review designs and specifications for clarity and testability
• Support software validation efforts in collaboration with internal stakeholders and external stakeholders
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to sprint deliverables

Report and Maintain Testing

• Track and communicate key test metrics (coverage, pass rate, flakiness, etc.)
• Maintain and document test frameworks for long-term sustainability
• Proactively monitor production performance and prevent issue recurrence
• Report on automation progress and test runs

• Proven experience in both manual and automated software testing
• Hands-on experience with modern test frameworks - Playwright preferred
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git)
• Strong knowledge of the ISTQB framework
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle, and development best practices
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows
• Experience working in or alongside Agile teams
• A strong sense of ownership, collaboration, and a growth mindset
• Excellent communication skills and attention to detail
• Bonus: experience with subscription billing or financial products

• Hybrid, Casual work environment
• Unlimited PTO policy
• • Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive work-life balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both
• Training & Development
• • Learning the advanced partnership automation products
• Medical Aid and Provident Fund
• • Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid
• Group scheme with 10X for provident fund
• Restricted Stock Units
• • 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval
• Internet Allowance
• Fitness club fee reimbursements
• Technology Stipend
• Primary Caregiver Leave
• Mental Health and Wellness Benefit - Including 12 Therapy/Coaching sessions + Dependent coverage

is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All employees and applicants for employment shall be given fair treatment and equal employment opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity or ancestry, color or caste, religion or belief, age, sex (including gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity), national origin, weight, neurodivergence, disability, marital and civil partnership status, caregiving status, veteran status, genetic information, political affiliation, or other prohibited non-merit factors.

#LI-NK1_CapeTown

Job Title: Paintshop Quality Engineer

Location: Gqeberha

Job Type: Full-time

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Reviewing paintshop quality metrics and present reports on identified defects in collaboration with paintshop lab engineers.

· Conducting microscopic analysis of paint defects, determining root causes, and implementing corrective and preventative measures.

· Operating and maintaining paint quality inspection equipment (e.g., coating thickness, adhesion, colour matching, transparency) and managing related tools and lab instruments.

· Overseeing and updating paintshop quality management systems, including sealer application, paint mixing and wax application processes.

· Developing and implementing quality training documentation, quarterly training plans and quality awareness initiatives. Compile detailed reports on quality metrics and present them to senior management on a regular basis.

· Monitoring and achieving Paintshop Quality KPIs by analyzing data, resolving manpower- related issues, and managing the quality inspector team.

· Plan, implement and control quality inspection processes and procedures and ensure all quality management system processes are complied with by quality inspectors and paint shop personnel.

· Conduct regular audits, analysing findings and presenting process capability results and audit feedback to senior management.

· Ensure compliance with all safety rules, company policies and quality management system requirements in an OEM paintshop environment.

· Comply with management requirements and complete work assignments in a timeous manner and instructions given by superiors.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

· Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field

· Quality Management certification (essential)

· Minimum of 3 years' experience in a quality engineering role within an OEM Paintshop environment.

· At least 2 years' prior experience as a Quality Inspector

· Valid Code 8 (or higher) driver's license with a minimum of 2 year's driving experience

COMPETENCIES:

· Strong technical knowledge of automobile systems and paintshop processes

· Ability to accurately identify and address quality defects

· Knowledge of ISO/TS16949 standards

· Proficiency in statistical analysis and data-driven problem solving

· Strong analytical skills with exceptional attention to detail

· Excellent report writing and presentation skills

· Self- motivated, proactive, and able to work independently

· Strong leadership, team management and interpersonal skills

Join our team and become part of a dynamic and innovative company at the forefront of the automotive industry. Apply now to with your updated resume.

: When submitting your application, please use the job title in the subject heading.

We look forward to welcoming you to our team

We encourage applications from all qualified individuals, including those with diverse backgrounds and those with disabilities. Preference will be given to applicants in line with our current employment equity plan and targets.

Please note that should you not receive a response within 2 weeks of applying, you may consider your application as being unsuccessful.

Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: In person

Application Deadline: 2025/09/16