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The Software Quality Analyst role entails the creation, review and execution of software testing specifications and involves both working as part of the development team as well as mentoring other team members. The role includes responsibility for creating and maintaining testing environments, as well as creation and use of automated testing.

What You Will Be Doing

• Release management
• Software build processes
• Analysis, design and documentation of software
• User requirement gathering and documentation
• User acceptance testing
• Agile development methodology/Scrum management techniques
• Database querying and maintenance
• Maintenance of test and development environments
• Web technologies

Requirements

• Three plus years' experience in testing complex software systems
• SQL skills
• OS, VM and software skills
• Experience creating and maintaining testing environments
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills
• Analytical and logical problem-solving skills
• Understanding of testing concepts and the role of a QA in Scrum
• Related qualification

Does This Sound Like You

• Good attention to detail
• Open to and willing to give critique
• Genuinely interested in comin up with the nest solutions
• Constantly learning about things and sharing with others

If we're blown away by your CV, we'll call you in for an interview.

We'll give you a warm welcome, a quick test to challenge your mind and a chat to weigh up your skills and personality - simple, right? If you get the job, be prepared for a pretty great adventure

We look forward to meeting you.

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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. , 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, Fanatics and Levi's, visit

Your Role at
As the Software Quality Engineer at Impact, your key responsibilities will include delivering high quality software, loudly advocating for software testing best practices, and helping to instill a strong quality mindset in those around you. This role will work globally, cross team and cross functionally to directly ensure the highest level of quality for key customers.

Successful candidates will be quick learners who are able to flex and adapt with different needs and processes depending on what they are working on. An eye for detail will also be important as you navigate the large and feature rich platform that is

What You'll Do:

• Develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts using Playwright (TypeScript) or Selenium (Java).
• Conduct manual testing across UI/UX, FrontEnd, BackEnd, and API testing using tools like Postman.
• Independently manage and document test cases with TestRail.
• Collaborate closely with product teams and developers to understand requirements and translate them into automated test scripts.
• Perform comprehensive integration testing and ensure smooth end-to-end testing cycles.
• Identify, document, and report bugs through manual and automated testing.
• Coordinate with East Coast-based teams on release days for post-release verifications and checks.
• Provide regular updates to the Product Manager and QA Lead on task progress and automation scripting status.
• Offer detailed reporting metrics and insights to relevant stakeholders to track testing progress and quality metrics.
• Contribute feedback and insights during team discussions, demonstrating confidence, clarity, and a proactive approach.

What You Have:

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience in automation testing, proficient with Playwright (TypeScript) or Selenium (Java).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, and GCP cloud environment.
• Experience using TestRail for test case management and documentation.
• Working knowledge of API testing with Postman.
• Experience with UI/UX testing and backend testing.
• Familiarity with integration testing processes.
• Excellent communication skills, confident in sharing opinions, and capable of working collaboratively.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholders across different time zones.

Benefits:

• Hybrid, Casual work environment

• Responsible 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 Momentum for provident fund

• Restricted Stock Units

• 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval

• Internet Allowance

• Fitness club fee reimbursements
• Technology Stipend

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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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 Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Impact, your key responsibilities will carry a dual mandate, being to deliver the highest quality software to our end users while simultaneously ensuring the persistence of the quality standard by means of automated regression. This is a rare opportunity in QA to have a direct influence on the quality of our software through every phase of the feature delivery workflow. This role will fully encompass all responsibilities associated with the Quality Assurance complement for a designated squad.

The applicant who is ultimately successful will be expected to scrutinize new features with a high attention to detail and document the methodology utilised in the form of a detailed test plan containing the respective test cases specific to the feature. Upon successful deployment of the feature, the scenarios detailed in the test plan are then to be automated using Java and selenium webdriver.

The person filling this role will also be mandated with conducting the regression testing phase of the deployment workflow process and reporting on results timeously. The successful candidate will partner closely with software Development Engineers and Product Managers to understand product requirements as well as functionality for developing appropriate build scripts, test plans and test cases.

What You'll Do:

• Accountable for Automation Testing
• Accountable for creating, configuring and maintaining a suite of automated regressions tests & their environment
• Test Planning & Analysis of Requirements
• Sign-off on manually scripted test cases
• Review and action pull requests
• Review product design documentation to ensure that requirements stated are correct, unambiguous, and verifiable.
• Consult with product development to evaluate system interfaces, operational requirements, and performance requirements of the overall system.
• Define test methods and create test plans for new or updated software projects to determine if the software will perform accurately and reliably according to documented requirements as well as established standards under both normal and abnormal conditions
• Recommend design improvements or corrections to engineers throughout the SDLC.
• Maintain effective communication with the project software engineers on project limitation, capability, performance requirement and hardware interface changes.
• Execute test plans and create test reports to describe program evaluation, testing, and correction.
• Testing will include functional and nonfunctional, integration, regression, system, smoke and sanity testing (minimum)
• Monitor program performance after implementation to prevent re-occurrence of program operating problems and ensure efficiency of operation.
• Conduct compatibility tests with vendor-provided programs.
• Formulate and design software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design.
• Create test tools that facilitate data gathering and test method execution.
• Support manufacturing by verifying fixture software or any software used during production.
• Participate in risk management meetings.
• Scripting of test cases against manually scripted test cases / TestRail
• Run regression tests against the applications then diagnose & report all issues
• Implement automated tests using a Selenium framework
• Defect Management
• Implement scripts and server configurations for automated build and testing environments
• Provide reports and procedures on Automation runs & progress
• Reporting and tracking test metrics such as test and code coverage
• Ensure QA automated test framework is documented, with focus on continuity

What You Have:

• Solid understanding of computer programming and software development
• Ability to troubleshoot equipment problems and perform complex system tests
• Creative thinking skills
• Detail-oriented personality
• Excellent manual dexterity
• Ability to communicate well to other members of the development team
• At least 3 years experience in SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)
• Bachelor's Degree/BTEC or equivalent experience
• ISTQB/ISEB (Pref)
• At least 2 years of experience in developing RESTful APIs
• At least 3 years of test automation experience: Selenium, Jasmine, POM, Cucumber
• Certified in Java, Spring or AWS technologies (Pref)
• Nice to have: Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA

Benefits:

• Hybrid, Casual work environment

• Responsible 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 Momentum for provident fund

• Restricted Stock Units

• 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval

• Internet Allowance

• Fitness club fee reimbursements
• Technology Stipend

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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Job Description

• 8+ 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.
• 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
• Mastery of performance testing tools like Apache JMeter or LoadRunner and analysing system performance
• Proficiency in security testing tools like OWASP ZAP or Burp Suite.
• Extensive experience in CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, ADO, or similar.
• In-depth understanding of DevOps practices and tools, including containerisation and orchestration with tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience in working with cloud technologies like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.

Performs quality assurance checks for applications developed in house, packaged, or third-party hosted, using a variety of manual and automated tools. Develops and implements quality assurance, problem reporting processes and systems. OML roles mapped to this profile are: Senior Quality Engineer, Technical Lead: Quality

Engineering, Technical Lead: Quality Engineering (Automation) and Technical Test Manager.

Responsibilities
Quality Assurance Testing

Validate and interpret complex test data to evaluate and recommend the suitability of nonstandard materials or components.

Testing Information Technology (IT) Performance

Design and monitor the quality of website/applications software tests and respond to user emails to monitor, diagnose, and correct performance issues.

Quality Assurance Testing Design

Validate new or existing complex test methods and procedures; identify issues and recommend improvements to contribute to further development.

Quality Management System

Contribute to the identification and evaluation of current policies and business processes that are in the scope of the quality management system (QMS); contribute to the design of the QMS; provide specialist quality management input to the drafting of new policies and procedures and the design of business processes; contribute to the quantification of the costs and business benefits of change.

Operational Compliance

Maintain and renew a deep knowledge and understanding of the organization's policies and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, and ensure own work adheres to required standards. Or identify, within the team, patterns of noncompliance with the organization's policies and procedures and with relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, taking appropriate action to report and resolve these and escalating issues as appropriate.

Continuous Improvement

Review existing operations in own area of work and implement innovation processes to generate new ideas and ensure continuous improvements are delivered.

Application Software Development

Develop existing applications and contribute to development of new applications by analyzing and identifying areas for modification and improvement. Develop new routine applications to meet customer requirements.

Application Software Road Map

Contribute to and maintain a roadmap to facilitate application software development and ensure the development work is prioritized in line with business requirements.

Applications Software Maintenance

Monitor, identify, and correct more complex software defects to maintain fully functioning applications software.

Design and Conceptualization

Produce multiple concepts and prototypes to design digital products/services.

Documentation

Create and maintain complex technical and/or user documentation to a high standard.

Skills
Action Planning, Adaptive Thinking, Data Compilation, Data Management, Evaluating Information, Executing Plans, Legal Practices, Oral Communications, Policies & Procedures, Project Quality Management, Project Testing, Report Review, Test Case Management

Competencies
Business Insight

Communicates Effectively

Courage

Cultivates Innovation

Drives Results

Ensures Accountability

Instills Trust

Manages Complexity

Education
NQF Level 7 - Degree, Advance Diploma or Postgraduate Certificate or equivalent

Closing Date
01 September 2025 , 23:59

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.
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