Software Quality Engineer

Job Classification

• Job Requisition: 143089
• TA Specialist: Refilwe Falatsi
• Closing Date: 12 December 2025
• Location: 135 Rivonia Campus Sandton
• Cluster: Personal and Private Banking Nedbank Insurance BITE
• Please Note: Preference will be given to applicants from Underrepresented Groups

About the role

Are you passionate about automation quality assurance and innovation Join Nedbank Insurance as a Software Quality Engineer and play a key role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality scalable solutions. You will leverage advanced frameworks and tools to design develop and implement reusable automated test assets aligning with enterprise standards and best practices.

Job Purpose

Use the automation test kit (frameworks and pre-defined test tools) to inspect analyse design develop implement and execute on re-useable automated test assets to quality assure the solution and its architecture to ensure the overall quality of the solution whilst aligning to the prescribed enterprise quality practices and standards.

Job Responsibilities

• Build and foster deep relationship with Peers Subject Matter Experts Developers Product Owner and other Stakeholders through transparent communication which align to the Nedbank Values.
• Design develop and execute automated test solutions using enterprise test kits and frameworks.
• Collaborate with QA Leads Developers Architects and Product Owners to meet client expectations.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies: sprint planning backlog grooming and retrospectives.
• Integrate automation into DevOps pipelines for continuous delivery.
• Log and manage defects perform root cause analysis and report testing status daily.
• Contribute to technical capability improvements within the team.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and apply innovative solutions within the Nedbank ecosystem.
• Discuss the low level design and functional requirements with the QA Lead Application/Solution Architect to understand the approach to test automation.

People Specification

Qualification

• Essential Qualification: Advanced Diploma/National First Degree in IT or related field. (NQF 7)
• Preferred Qualification: BSc (IT) or BComm (IT)
• Certification: ISTQB Advanced (required - non negotiable) Agile & DevOps Bootcamp training.

Minimum Experience Level

36 years in test automation analysis and design; Agile delivery; TDD/BDD; DevOps pipelines.

• Technical Skills
  Development languages: Java Object-Oriented Programming (OOP).
  Mobile Test Automation.
  SOAP & RESTful services.
  Testing tools/frameworks: Selenium Appium RestAssured Karate JMeter Jira.
  Service & Data Virtualisation.
  Performance load and vulnerability testing.

Behavioural Competencies

Why Join Us

Work with cutting-edge technology in a collaborative innovative environment.
Be part of a team that values continuous learning and growth.
Enjoy flexible agile ways of working aligned to Nedbanks culture and values.