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Senior QA Engineer

Cape Town Region, Western Cape💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-21

Core

Own the quality strategy for programmatic publishing systems that enable publishers to monetize inventory and advertisers to buy placements, focusing on high-throughput real-time decisioning, data validation, and API contracts.

Role type

Senior hands-on individual contributor QA Engineer

Builds

Automated testing suites, consumer-driven contract tests, data validation pipelines, and production monitoring signals for a commerce partnership platform.

Domain

Programmatic advertising, commerce partnerships, real-time decisioning systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

API and contract testing, SQL and data validation, log analysis and debugging, CI/CD integration, AI-assisted testing, cross-system integration testing, performance testing, test strategy design

Preferred skills

Experience with legacy server-rendered frontends, TypeScript, event-driven architectures, service virtualization, agentic workflows

Technologies

REST/JSON APIs, SQL, Grafana, TypeScript, MCP servers, AI testing tools

Responsibilities

Design and maintain automated coverage for REST/JSON surfaces and high-throughput serving paths; build consumer-driven contract tests across service boundaries; validate data pipelines and reporting datasets using complex SQL; test multi-step frontend journeys including legacy and modern components; interpret logs and metrics to diagnose production issues; define quality gates and thresholds for releases; manage third-party and cross-system integration quality; implement AI-augmented testing workflows and review AI-generated tests.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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