Software Automation Tester (QA Automation Engineer)

The Automation Tester owns automated quality across Vega Vision’s software products and client solutions. The role designs, builds and maintains automated test suites — API, UI, end-to-end and regression — that run as required checks in our CI/CD pipeline, so defects are caught before code reaches staging or production. Working closely with developers, the business analyst and the QA function, the role makes quality fast, repeatable and built-in rather than a manual gate at the end.

• Builds and maintains reliable automated test suites that gate merges through the CI/CD pipeline.
• Turns requirements and acceptance criteria into clear, automated and manual test coverage.
• Supports system integration testing (SIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT) through to go-live.

1. Test Automation Development

Design, build and maintain the automated test suites that protect Vega Vision products and client solutions.

• Build and maintain UI / end-to-end automation for web (e.g. Playwright, Cypress or Selenium) and, where needed, mobile (React Native).
• Automate API testing across REST and GraphQL endpoints, including authentication and error paths.
• Grow and maintain reliable regression suites that keep pace with new features.

Write clean, maintainable test code and keep the suite fast and low on flakiness.

2. CI/CD Integration & Quality Gates

Make automated tests a dependable part of the delivery pipeline, not an afterthought.

• Integrate automated suites as required checks in the GitHub CI pipeline so failing tests block merges to staging and main.
• Work within the feat → dev → staging → main branch flow and its protection rules.
• Keep pipeline test stages fast, stable and trustworthy so the team can rely on green builds.

Support SAST/dependency-scanning integration and help triage findings with developers.

3. Functional, Integration & Acceptance Testing

Ensure each release does what the business asked, through SIT, UAT and structured test design.

• Translate requirements and acceptance criteria (with the business analyst) into test cases and test plans.
• Run and support system integration testing (SIT) internally ahead of client-facing testing.
• Prepare UAT scripts, support user acceptance testing, and help capture formal sign-off for major releases.

Perform exploratory and manual testing where automation is not the right tool.

4. Performance, Load & Security Testing

Verify that systems are fast, resilient and secure before they reach production.

• Run load and performance testing at staging (e.g. k6, JMeter or Locust) against agreed targets.
• Support security testing aligned to the OWASP Top 10, and coordinate DAST / penetration testing ahead of go-live.
• Validate resilience, failover and recovery behaviour where the system’s criticality calls for it.

Feed performance and security findings back into the backlog with clear reproduction steps.

5. Defect Management & Collaboration

Keep quality moving as part of Vega Vision’s agile-and-planned delivery team.

• Log, prioritise and track defects through resolution, with clear, reproducible reports.
• Work closely with developers to investigate root causes and verify fixes.
• Take part in backlog grooming, sprint planning and demos, sizing and delivering test work.

Advocate for quality across the team and support a test-first mindset.

6. Test Data, Documentation & Quality Reporting

Give the team clear visibility of quality, safely and consistently.

• Manage test data responsibly, aligned to POPIA — no unprotected production data in test environments.
• Maintain test cases, suites and documentation as a shared source of truth.
• Report on test coverage, pass/fail trends, defect leakage and release readiness.

Contribute to QA standards, tooling and continuous improvement across the group.

Minimum 3 year Tertiary qualification in Computer Science or Information Technology 

Experience

5+ years in QA / test automation on production software.

Automation Frameworks :Hands-on with at least one modern UI/E2E framework — Playwright, Cypress or Selenium.

API Testing :Automated API testing across REST (and ideally GraphQL) — e.g. Postman/Newman, REST Assured or code-based.

Coding Ability: Able to write and maintain test code in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python or C#.

CI/CD & Git: Integrating automated tests into CI pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions) and working in a Git branch-based workflow.

Test Design:Writing test cases, test plans and traceability to acceptance criteria; SIT and UAT support.

Defect Management: Bug tracking and defect lifecycle in a tool such as Jira.

Data Validation :Working SQL to validate data as part of testing.

Ways of Working :Comfortable in an agile team and with a test-driven / test-first mindset.