596 Software Quality Assurance jobs in South Africa

Role:
Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Contract)

Location:
Sandton (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)

Contract:
September 2025 – 15 December 2025

Rate:
R350 per hour

We're looking for a
Quality Assurance Engineer
to join on a contract basis. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a high-impact digital platform, ensuring software quality and stability.

What you'll do:

• Design, develop, and execute
  test plans, cases, and scripts
  .
• Conduct
  functional, regression, integration, and performance testing
  .
• Identify, document, and track defects using
  JIRA
  or similar tools.
• Collaborate closely with development and product teams to ensure quality across the
  SDLC
  .
• Analyze test results, produce reports, and communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Participate in design and requirement reviews to address quality early.
• Stay current with QA trends, tools, and best practices.
• Act as the
  go-to person for QA and sign-off
  within the team.

Deliverables:

• Quality assurance for a core digital platform.
• Iteration-based acceptance criteria.

Requirements:

• Strong background in
  software testing and QA methodologies
  .
• Hands-on experience with
  functional, regression, integration, and performance testing
  .
• Proficiency with
  bug tracking tools (e.g., JIRA)
  .
• Excellent collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.
• Strong documentation and reporting abilities.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in
fast-paced environments
and enjoys being accountable for
quality sign-off
in delivery cycles.

Company Description

Miprint Consulting is a black woman-owned IT consulting firm dedicated to addressing skills scarcity in the ICT industry. We focus on uplifting local talent and providing high-quality IT resources such as developers, system analysts, UX designers, business analysts, testers, architects, project managers, program managers, governance and support engineers. As a value-added service, we also supply IT hardware, software, and peripherals. Our mission is to be the solution to critical skills transformation in IT.

Role Description

This is a hybrid contract role for a Lead Software Quality Assurance Engineer based in the Johannesburg Metropolitan Area. The Lead Software Quality Assurance Engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing testing procedures, leading a team of QA engineers, and ensuring the quality and reliability of software products. The role involves both manual and automated testing, identifying and reporting bugs, and collaborating with the software development team to resolve issues.

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.

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 Exposure:

• 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
• 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 that the overall quality standards and customer expectations are met or exceeded.

Must Have Skills:

· 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).

This is a
6-month contract
role where the Senior SQE will lead QA initiatives across multiple projects, mentor junior and intermediate engineers, and drive innovation in testing strategies and automation. The role requires close collaboration with development, business, and architecture teams to ensure high-quality software delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead QA frameworks and initiatives within development teams.
• Ensure business and technical requirements are testable.
• Monitor and improve software quality delivery.
• Mentor and develop engineers' technical skills.
• Innovate in automation, performance, and security testing.
• Engage stakeholders throughout the SDLC.
• Support CI/CD pipeline and DevOps practices.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Degree or diploma in a relevant field.
• 8+ years in software testing, with 3+ years in leadership roles.
• Strong backend and frontend testing expertise.
• Experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks.
• Proficient in API/interface, performance (JMeter, LoadRunner), and security testing (OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite).
• Familiar with DevOps/CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, ADO, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Cloud exposure (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Job Title: Software QA Lead

Experience:
 5+ years

Location:
 In Office

Reports To:
 Chief Innovation Officer

Overview

We're looking for a hands-on Software QA Lead
 who will take ownership of software quality across multiple automation and SaaS products (including document-processing and RPA solutions).

The ideal candidate has deep experience in 
test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and QA strategy
, while still being able to roll up their sleeves to test, script, and automate.

They will lead a small team of automation engineers and QA analysts, drive test process maturity, and contribute directly to improving product stability, coverage, and delivery efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement test strategies, frameworks, and best practices for multiple software products.
• Build and maintain 
  automated test suites
   (unit, integration, regression, and end-to-end).
• Oversee and review manual and automated test cases prepared by the team.
• Integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar).
• Establish QA metrics, dashboards, and reporting for releases and deployments.
• Coordinate UAT sessions and ensure quality gates are enforced.
• Collaborate closely with DevOps, Developers, and RPA engineers to ensure automation and testability from the ground up.
• Mentor junior QA engineers and automation developers.
• Champion a "shift-left" mindset where quality starts at design time.

Key Skills

• Solid background in software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Strong scripting and automation experience with 
  Python, JavaScript/TypeScript
  , or similar.
• Hands-on experience with 
  test frameworks
   (e.g., PyTest, Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or Robot Framework).
• Familiarity with 
  API testing tools
   (Postman, SoapUI, or equivalent).
• Understanding of 
  CI/CD, Git workflows, and Docker
  .
• Exposure to 
  AWS or cloud environments
   preferred.
• Bonus: experience with 
  RPA platforms
   (UiPath, ElectronNeek, Automation Anywhere, etc.).

Personality / Cultural Fit

• Comfortable working in a small, agile innovation-driven team.
• Analytical and detail-oriented.
• Naturally collaborative, able to mentor while still being a doer.
• Excited by automation, problem-solving, and experimentation.

If you love building reliable software and thrive in fast-moving environments — we'd love to hear from you

Apply / reach out at

Job Title: Volunteer QA Tester – Hues Apply AI (MVP Testing)

Workplace: Remote

Recruiting from: EMEA

About Us:

Hues Apply AI is an early-stage EdTech & HRTech startup building an AI-powered platform that helps African students and graduates access scholarships, internships, and career opportunities globally. We are preparing to release our MVP and need passionate testers to help us refine the product before launch.

Role:

As a Volunteer QA Tester, you'll test our soon-to-be-released MVP, explore its features, identify bugs, and provide feedback on user experience. Your contribution will directly help us improve usability, reliability, and overall quality.

Responsibilities:

• Test product features on web across multiple devices
• Identify bugs, usability issues, and inconsistencies
• Report findings clearly in the provided templates
• Suggest improvements from a user's perspective

Requirements:

• Detail-oriented with strong communication skills
• Comfortable testing software prototypes
• Ability to commit 3–5 hours/week for 8 weeks
• Interest in EdTech, AI, or career development is a plus

Benefits:

• Gain early access to an innovative AI career platform
• Learn and build QA/testing skills in a startup environment
• Receive a certificate of participation and LinkedIn endorsement
• Potential for a Full-time position. Be part of a mission-driven team empowering African youth

How to Apply:

Send your CV or a short note on why you'd like to join as a QA Tester to

Requirements:

Candidates must have solid
performance and automation testing experience
with expertise in:

• Load Testing
• Stress Testing
• Endurance Testing
• Spike Testing
• Failover & Disaster Recovery Testing

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• ISTQB qualification
• 3–5 years of proven experience in performance and automation testing
• Hands-on expertise with at least one major performance testing tool (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling)
• Experience using monitoring tools (e.g., Dynatrace, New Relic, Grafana, AppDynamics)
• Strong knowledge of performance testing methodologies and concepts
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript) for test automation
• Solid understanding of client-server architecture, databases, and web technologies
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Familiarity with Agile and DevOps principles
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI)

If you are passionate about ensuring system reliability and performance in high-demand environments, we want to hear from you

Job Title:
Software QA Tester (Manual + Automation)

Location:
Johannesburg (Hybrid)

Contract Type:
Contract

Experience Required:
5+ years in Software Testing with Automation

About the Role

We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented
QA Engineer
with strong expertise in
manual testing
and hands-on knowledge of
automation frameworks
. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the quality, performance, and reliability of our software applications, while driving test strategy and execution across projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute
  test plans, test cases, and test scripts
  for web and enterprise applications.
• Perform
  functional, regression, integration, and performance testing
  to ensure product stability and quality.
• Utilize
  JIRA, Confluence, and Excel
  to log, manage, and track test results, issues, and documentation.
• Develop and maintain
  automation test scripts
  using
  Selenium with Java
  .
• Identify, analyze, document, and track defects, ensuring timely resolution in collaboration with developers.
• Work closely with
  product owners, developers, and stakeholders
  to understand requirements and deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Generate detailed
  test reports
  and communicate results effectively with technical and business teams.
• Participate in
  design and requirement reviews
  , ensuring quality assurance is considered from the start.
• Act as the
  go-to person for QA and test signoff
  within the team.
• Stay up-to-date with
  testing tools, techniques, and best practices
  to continuously improve test efficiency and effectiveness.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of experience
  in software testing with a focus on
  manual and automation testing
  .
• Hands-on experience with
  Selenium (Java)
  for automation scripting.
• Proficiency with
  JIRA, Confluence, and Excel
  for test management and reporting.
• Strong knowledge of
  QA methodologies, testing best practices, and SDLC/STLC processes
  .
• Ability to design and execute
  end-to-end test strategies
  .
• Excellent
  problem-solving skills
  , attention to detail, and ability to work in fast-paced environments.
• Strong
  communication and collaboration
  skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in
  banking/financial services domain
  (advantageous).
• Familiarity with
  CI/CD pipelines
  and integration of test automation into DevOps workflows.
• Knowledge of additional automation/testing tools is a plus.

Lead Software Quality Engineer - Hybrid, Contract (6 months), Cape Town

Lead QA initiatives, ensure testability of requirements, monitor quality delivery, mentor engineers, and innovate in automation, performance, and security testing. Collaborate across teams to deliver high-quality software, fostering growth in a balanced, flexible environment.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in software testing and leadership roles
• Strong back-end and front-end testing skills
• Proven ability to build and maintain test automation frameworks
• Proficiency in API and system interface testing
• Experience with performance and security tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite
• Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, ADO, Docker, Kubernetes
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, relationship building, emotional intelligence, and assertiveness

Preferred

• Exposure to cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, or GCP

Location:
Pretoria / Johannesburg, South Africa | Hybrid

About Us

At , we're on a mission to make quality supply chain optimisation accessible to businesses of all sizes through our cutting-edge optimisation software, business intelligence solutions, and consulting services. As a fast-growing startup, we're passionate about creating impactful solutions that improve how businesses operate.

Role Overview

We're looking for a driven and talented
Software Engineer (Full Stack)
to join us as a part of our growing team at This is an exciting opportunity to grow with us, learn quickly, and help deliver quality software and services to our customers. You'll work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving are at the heart of everything we do.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain our cloud-based supply chain optimisation software.
• Collaborate with our Industrial Engineers to understand the needs of businesses in logistics and supply chain and convert these requirements into a robust cloud-based optimisation solution.
• Continuously evaluate and optimise our codebase to ensure the use of the best technologies and practices.

What We're Looking For

• A high level of curiosity and the ability to apply first principles thinking when tackling new challenges.
• Strong analytical skills with a comfort for iterative problem-solving.
• Experience in logistics and supply chain is beneficial but not essential.
• Experience working with geospatial data is beneficial but not essential.
• A strong sense of pride in delivering high-quality work.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 0 – 3 years' experience working as a developer.

The technologies you will work on:

• PostgreSQL
• Python / Django
• React / Javascript
• Github
• Azure

Your input on tech stack preferences is encouraged—we value technically sound decision-making

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a growing company where you can influence its direction.
• Solve complex, abstract problems that challenge you and allow for rapid learning.
• Work in a flexible, hybrid environment with opportunities to make a real impact.