QA Engineer (Playwright/Cypress, Azure DevOps, API Automation) – Contract – Sandton (in-office)
Datafin IT Recruitment QA Engineer (Playwright/Cypress, Azure DevOps, API Automation) – Contract – Sandton (in-office)
Summary
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.
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.