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Senior QA Engineer

Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town Region💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-16 → 2026-09-21

Core

Own the quality strategy for programmatic publishing systems, designing automation for high-throughput real-time decisioning, data validation, and cross-system integrations.

Role type

Senior hands-on individual contributor QA Engineer

Builds

Automated test suites, contract tests, data validation pipelines, and monitoring dashboards for a commerce partnership platform

Domain

E-commerce / Programmatic Advertising / Real-time Data Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

API and contract testing, SQL and data validation, Kafka event processing, frontend automation (TypeScript/legacy), log analysis, CI/CD integration, AI-assisted testing, test strategy design

Preferred skills

Experience with agentic workflows and MCP servers, expertise in service virtualization, ability to mentor QA peers

Technologies

REST/JSON APIs, SQL, Kafka, Grafana, TypeScript, AI/LLM tools

Responsibilities

Design and build automation for high-throughput serving paths and decisioning logic; validate data pipelines and reporting accuracy; test event-driven seams and message contracts; own frontend quality for multi-step user journeys; interpret logs to diagnose production issues; define quality gates and metrics for revenue-critical releases.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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