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We're dedicated to making payments more accessible, secure, and convenient for both businesses and consumers. As a fast-growing player in the financial technology sector, Ozow fosters a culture of innovation, diversity, and inclusivity. We believe in pushing the boundaries of what's possible and are committed to making a positive impact on the world through our payment solutions.\nMore about this Ozow fantastic position\nThe Senior Automation Engineer leads the design, development and implementation of scalable quality-engineering and automation solutions across Ozow's payments ecosystem - owning automation architecture and standards, strengthening release confidence, and advancing AI-assisted, observable and production-ready testing practices across teams. This is a full-stack quality role covering both back-end and front-end. Alongside owning automation, the engineer performs hands-on manual and exploratory testing and the test analysis that informs what gets covered and how, operating as a senior quality owner across the product rather than an automation specialist alone.\nYour role and responsibilities\nMentorship and Collaboration\nPerform peer reviews and mentor the Intermediate Automation Engineer, QA practitioners and developers on automation standards.\n\nProvide technical direction to the Intermediate Automation Engineer and influence automation decisions across teams.\n\nContribute to technical assessments, documentation and quality-engineering governance.\n\nAutomation Architecture & Framework Ownership\nLead the analysis, design, development and maintenance of reusable automation frameworks across Ozow products and payment platforms.\n\nDefine framework architecture, coding standards, patterns, governance and review practices.\n\nDevelop and optimise UI and API automation using Playwright, RestSharp and tools aligned with Ozow's technology stack.\n\nBuild utilities that improve test-data management, execution, diagnostics and engineering efficiency.\n\nAutomation Strategy & Coverage\nTranslate business and technical risk into an end-to-end automation strategy and prioritised roadmap.\n\nIdentify high-value automation opportunities across UI, API, integration, contract and service layers.\n\nDesign automation for critical payment journeys, including authentication, idempotency, reconciliation and settlement scenarios.\n\nManual, Exploratory and Analytical Testing\nPerform hands-on manual and exploratory testing across front-end and back-end, with a focus on new features, high-risk changes and areas not yet suited to automation.\n\nCarry out requirements and test analysis, turning specifications and payment workflows into clear test conditions, cases and coverage, ahead of and independent of automation.\n\nApply human judgement to usability, edge-case and end-to-end behaviour that automated checks are not designed to catch.\n\nOwn the balance between manual and automated coverage, deciding what is validated manually and what graduates into the automated regression suite.\n\nAI-Assisted Quality Engineering\nLead responsible adoption of AI-generated test design, LLM-assisted exploratory testing and regression risk analysis.\n\nEvaluate self-healing locator approaches and intelligent flaky-test detection and triage.\n\nDefine controls that protect accuracy, security, maintainability and human oversight when using AI-assisted testing.\n\nContinuous Testing & CI/CD\nIntegrate automated suites and quality gates into TeamCity and Bitbucket-based delivery pipelines.\n\nOptimise test selection, parallel execution and feedback times to support frequent releases.\n\nPartner with DevOps on reliable environments, containerised execution and production-like test data.\n\nReliability, Observability & Reporting\nImplement meaningful automation logging, metrics, dashboards and failure-analysis capabilities using Allure, Datadog or comparable tools.\n\nAnalyse unstable tests and continuously improve framework reliability, execution performance and reporting quality.\n\nUse production signals to refine automated coverage and prevent repeat incidents.\n\nContract, Performance & Non-Functional Testing\nEstablish contract-testing practices between distributed services and payment integrations.\n\nLead performance and reliability-testing initiatives using k6 or comparable tooling.\n\nEnsure non-functional risks are included in release-quality decisions.\n\nYou are an ideal candidate if you have\nRelevant tech qualification is preferred, with any additional certification a bonus. \n\nAt least five years of automation and quality-engineering experience in a Senior Automation Engineer, Quality Engineer or comparable role.\n\nStrong experience designing scalable automation frameworks and modern test architecture.\n\nAdvanced programming capability in C#, Java, Python or a comparable object-oriented language.\n\nHands-on expertise with Playwright and modern UI and API automation practices.\n\nExperience integrating automated testing into TeamCity, Bitbucket pipelines or comparable CI/CD platforms.\n\nStrong understanding of shift-left testing, distributed systems, microservices, API testing and contract testing.\n\nComfort operating as a full-stack quality engineer, combining automation ownership with hands-on manual testing, rather than focusing on automation alone.\n\nExperience in fintech, banking or payments, including transactional workflows, reconciliation, settlement, payment gateways or orchestration.\n\nExperience with cloud platforms and container technologies such as AWS, Azure, Docker or Kubernetes.\n\nStrong troubleshooting, debugging, root-cause analysis, stakeholder engagement and technical mentoring skills.\n\nExperience with performance testing using k6 or a comparable tool.\n\nYour skills and competencies\nYou eagerly embrace change, absorb cross-functional skills, and connect ideas across disciplines to drive fresh thinking and innovation. \nAbility to initiate, develop, maintain and leverage outstanding relationships to influence a wide network, both inside and outside the company. \nA trailblazer who steps up, takes charge, and creates meaningful impact-those driven by performance and purpose to lead from the front and make a real difference every day. \nYou thrive in collaboration, embrace inclusion, and bring a genuine curiosity for global cultures-valuing collective success over individual credit. \nDemonstrate strategic foresight, sound judgement, and the ability to make confident decisions under uncertainty, always working toward the best possible outcomes. \nYou challenge norms, champion innovation, and constantly seek growth-for themselves, their team, and the solutions they build. \nYou are a decisive doer-those who take initiative, follow through with confidence, and ensure results through courageous, hands-on leadership. \nWe value optimism, agility, and the strength to persevere under pressure-balancing performance with positivity, even in challenging environments. \nYou are driven, proactive individuals who take ownership, face challenges with grit, and consistently push for excellence-not just as participants, but as catalysts for success. \nInterview process \nDuring the interview process you will meet with the People team, the hiring manager, and relevant CSuite. Our process may include psychometric and technical assessments, giving you an opportunity to demonstrate your strengths, skills and potential beyond your CV and interview.\nIn office perks \nHealthy breakfast, lunches and snacks\nMonthly team connects \nOn-site Barista \nPerks for South African based employees\nMedical aid subsidy\nGroup Risk Insurance\nGenerous paid annual leave \nBirthday leave\nLearning and Development opportunities \nMentorship programme\nQuarterly team building\nEmployee Assistance Programme (EAP) \nCommunity initiatives \nAccess to cutting edge technology - Ozow Tech Stack\nOur Employee Value Proposition\nAt Ozow, we don't just process payments. We are redefining the future of how money moves. Our promise to our people is simple. Ozow is built for high impact: clear expectations, genuine investment in you, and the room to do work you are proud of. We back you to own what you deliver and how you grow, and we recognise the people who lift others, not just themselves. People are trusted to make decisions and own outcomes, where the growth you create, in yourself and in others, is part of how we succeed together.\nCompliance\nAs a fintech company, we prioritize data security, confidentiality, regulatory and compliance. Due to the sensitive nature of our work, we require individuals with a high levelof integrity and trustworthiness to ensure adherence to financial regulations and industry standards. Given the sensitive nature of our work, all employees are expected to demonstrateprofessionalism, accountability, and a commitment to ethical conduct in line with financial regulations and industry standards\nReady to be exceptional? 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