[Hiring] QA Engineer @E-Merge IT Recruitment

Role Description

Are you passionate about delivering high-quality software and ensuring exceptional user experiences? We're looking for a detail-oriented QA Engineer to join our growing team. In this role, you'll be responsible for:

• Designing and executing test plans
• Identifying defects
• Collaborating with developers to resolve issues
• Driving quality throughout the software development lifecycle

If you have strong analytical skills, experience with manual and automated testing, and a commitment to continuous improvement, we'd love to hear from you.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in a QA / SDET / test-engineering role on production software
• Strong grasp of TDD - you’ve worked on teams that practice it properly
• Language-agnostic: comfortable writing test code in whatever the service is written in
• Experience testing microservices and event-driven systems - contract tests, async assertions, test data strategy
• API testing fluency (REST, and ideally gRPC, GraphQL, or messaging)
• CI/CD pipeline integration of test suites
• A bias for automation, with the judgment to know what not to automate
• Clear written communication - bug reports that make engineers say “thanks” instead of sighing

Requirements

• Nice-to-have:
• Experience evaluating LLM/AI features - eval frameworks, prompt regression, RAG quality metrics
• Performance and load testing (k6, Gatling, Locust, JMeter)
• Security testing fundamentals (OWASP top 10, dependency scanning)
• Chaos / resilience testing - circuit breakers, retries, fault injection
• Frontend test automation (Playwright, Cypress)
• Observability tooling - OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Datadog, Honeycomb
• Accessibility testing
• Contract testing (Pact or equivalent)

Benefits

• Contract position offering a contract rate of R700 per hour, negotiable based on experience and ability

Contact

Contact Garth on [email protected] or call 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.