Datafin IT Recruitment
QA Engineer (Playwright/Cypress, Azure DevOps, API Automation) – Contract – Sandton (in-office)
QA Engineer with 4+ years of experience in automated and manual testing, focusing on Azure DevOps pipelines, Playwright/Cypress automation, and API testing to ensure software quality and CI/CD efficiency.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Degree or diploma
- 4+ years' working experience in testing competency (automated and manual)
- AZ-900 certification
- Experience with Playwright, Cucumber, Cypress, Appium, JMeter, Selenium, RestAssured, and RestSharp
- Proficiency with Azure DevOps
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining Azure DevOps Pipelines and Test Plans
- Experience orchestrating load tests with Azure Load Testing
- Experience instrumenting releases with Azure Monitor/Application Insights
- Ability to navigate SQL to set up test data
- Knowledge of REST API and web/mobile GUI testing
- Experience writing automated API tests
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills
Nice to have
- Other Azure certifications relevant to QA
- Familiarity with AI-enabled testing tools
Full description
Experience | Skills | Capability:
- Degree or diploma including 4+ years' working experience in the testing competency, covering both automated and manual testing.
- AZ-900 certification and other Azure certifications relevant to QA.
- Experience with test automation and continuous integration/delivery tools such as Playwright, Cucumber, Cypress, Appium, JMeter, Selenium, RestAssured, and RestSharp.
- Proficiency with Azure DevOps.
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining Azure DevOps Pipelines and Test Plans, orchestrating load tests with Azure Load Testing, and instrumenting releases with Azure Monitor/Application Insights.
- Support the maintenance and enhancement of the CI/CD pipeline.
- Strong technical knowledge and an ability to train development teams in the usage of test frameworks and infrastructure.
- Ability to navigate SQL or run queries to set up test data and validate technical aspects of initiatives.
- Knowledge of REST API and web/mobile GUI testing, as well as experience writing automated API tests.
- Familiarity with AI-enabled testing tools and enthusiasm for exploring emerging approaches.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills; comfortable working in agile, DevOps-oriented environments.
Result:
- Automated regression, API, and performance suite coverage of critical user journeys.
- Improved release cycle time through reliable, fast feedback loops.
- Reduced defect escape rate to production year-on-year.
- CI/CD pipeline health dashboards surface quality gates and AI-generated test insights in real time.
- Development teams adopt automation best practice through coaching and enablement.
- Test plans and test cases are maintained and improved.
- Defect management is clear, consistent, and traceable.
- Regression maintenance is actively managed.
- Active participation in the QA guild and QA community.
- Undertake any reasonable duties, aligned to your skills, that are required to achieve team objectives.