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Junior Software Tester

North Johannesburg, Johannesburg🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $240,000–$360,000🗓 2026-05-24 → 2026-08-07

Core

Junior QA professional ensuring software quality and reliability for complex multi-tenant SaaS platforms in the financial technology sector.

Role type

Junior Software Tester (Manual QA)

Builds

SaaS platforms with finance-sensitive workflows (vesting, leaver processes, accounting exports)

Domain

Financial Technology / SaaS

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

manual testing, exploratory testing, regression testing, bug tracking and defect management, test planning and documentation, web application testing, SaaS platform testing, basic API and log analysis, cross-functional collaboration

Preferred skills

automation testing concepts, Agile/Scrum environments, Django admin environments, relational databases, payroll/accounting/HR systems, Postman, Selenium, Cypress

Technologies

GitHub, Postman, Selenium, Cypress, Sentry, Django

Responsibilities

Review specifications and assist with writing detailed test plans covering happy paths, regressions, and edge cases; Execute manual test cases across staging and review-app environments; Validate cross-client functionality and ensure that reusable modules behave consistently across multiple configurations; Perform exploratory and functional testing across finance-sensitive workflows; Confirm permission boundaries, client scoping, and multi-tenant data isolation; Reproduce, document, and track bugs with clear reproduction steps, screenshots, and logs; Maintain and execute manual regression test suites for critical workflows and production releases; Collaborate with Product Managers and Product Owners to ensure that acceptance criteria is testable and clearly defined; Work closely with the Senior QA Engineer to identify flaky tests, test data gaps, and implement testing improvements; Partner with developers to validate edge cases and ensure a shared understanding of expected behaviour; Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across QA processes and release management; Support the long-term evolution towards automation testing and reliability engineering practices

Seniority

Junior, hands-on IC

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