Technical Test Engineer
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Job Location:
Cape Town - South Africa
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Test Engineer to drive the evolution from traditional testing to modern quality engineering. This role focuses on building scalable automation frameworks validating cloud-native applications in AWS and leveraging AI-driven testing practices within a DevOps environment.
This is an opportunity to take ownership of end-to-end quality engineering across the software delivery lifecycle contributing to high-performance resilient and production-ready systems.
Key Responsibilities
Minimum Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Quality Engineering & Strategy: Embed quality engineering practices across the SDLC (shift-left and shift-right) Translate testing strategy into scalable engineering-led solutions Define and implement automation cloud testing and AI-enabled QA standards
- Test Automation Engineering: Design and maintain scalable automation frameworks (UI API integration) Implement automation within CI/CD pipelines (regression smoke E2E) Optimise automation coverage execution time and reliability
- Cloud & AWS Testing: Validate applications deployed in AWS environments Test cloud-native architectures (microservices containers serverless) Perform scalability performance and resilience testing
- AI-Driven Testing: Implement intelligent automation (self-healing scripts predictive analytics) Apply risk-based testing and data-driven quality insights Evaluate emerging AI testing tools and frameworks
- Test Design & Execution: Design comprehensive test scenarios across functional and non-functional areas Drive defect identification root cause analysis and resolution support
- DevOps Integration: Integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines Collaborate with DevOps teams on deployment validation and environment setup
- Test Data & Environment Engineering: Develop test data strategies and reusable datasets Automate environment provisioning aligned to production
- Reporting & Insights: Build reporting dashboards on quality metrics and trends Provide actionable insights to stakeholders
- Leadership & Collaboration: Mentor junior testers and contribute to team capability uplift Collaborate with engineering architecture and business teams
Minimum Requirements
- Grade 12 along with a Diploma or Degree in Information Technology Computer Science Engineering or a related field
- 46 years in software testing / quality engineering
- Strong experience building test automation frameworks
- Proven AWS / cloud testing experience
- Experience in financial services (essential)
- Exposure to AI-driven testing tools (advantageous)
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 (advantageous)
- Automation: Selenium (or similar frameworks)
- API Testing: Postman SoapUI Swagger
- Programming/Scripting for automation
- CI/CD & DevOps pipelines
- Version control: Git
- Test management: JIRA Xray HP Quality Centre
- Cloud: AWS (Azure exposure beneficial)
- Microservices distributed systems and APIs
- SQL and data validation
- Non-functional testing (performance security resilience)
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Apache Commons
- Asset
- Art And Craft
- Concrete Pump
- Accident Investigation
About Company
WHO WE ARE EQPlus Technologies (Pty) Ltd was founded in 1999 by an exceptionally talented team of professionals and entrepreneurs. Today EQPlus is an industry-recognised Information Communications Service Provider that reflects South Africa’s unique diversity and is proud to announce ... View more
