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Lead Automation Tester

Johannesburg, Gauteng💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-04 → 2026-08-11

Core

Lead end-to-end quality assurance and test automation for banking and financial technology platforms, ensuring secure and scalable solutions.

Role type

Senior IC Lead Automation Tester

Builds

Enterprise-wide test automation frameworks for API, middleware, and front-end channels

Domain

Banking and Financial Technology

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure

Required skills

Test automation strategy, API testing, Front-end automation, Programming (Java/JavaScript/Python), Test frameworks (TestNG/JUnit/Cucumber), CI/CD integration, SQL validation, Microservices architecture

Preferred skills

Banking domain expertise, Regulatory compliance knowledge, Mentorship

Technologies

Postman, Rest Assured, SoapUI, Swagger, Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Playwright, Robot Framework, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Git, TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber

Responsibilities

Design and maintain enterprise test automation frameworks, Define QA strategy across multiple system layers, Develop automated test scripts for web/mobile/API, Partner with stakeholders on testing requirements, Oversee functional/regression/integration testing, Ensure alignment with banking compliance and security, Manage defect tracking and root cause analysis, Mentor junior QA engineers, Support CI/CD pipeline integration, Provide test metrics and risk assessments

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