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Senior QA Engineer

Cape Town💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Own the quality strategy and automation for a high-throughput, real-time programmatic publishing platform that enables publishers to monetize inventory and advertisers to buy placements.

Role type

Senior individual contributor QA Engineer (SDET)

Builds

Automated test suites for APIs, data pipelines, event processing, and UI journeys within a commerce partnership marketing platform.

Domain

Programmatic advertising, commerce partnerships, real-time decisioning systems.

Deliverable

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

Required skills

API contract testing, SQL data validation, Kafka event processing, UI automation, log analysis, CI/CD integration, AI-assisted testing, test strategy design

Preferred skills

Experience with legacy server-rendered frontends, service virtualization, agentic workflows, MCP servers

Technologies

REST/JSON APIs, SQL, Kafka, TypeScript, Grafana, CI/CD pipelines

Responsibilities

Design and maintain consumer-driven contract tests for service boundaries; validate data integrity across event pipelines and reporting surfaces; test event-driven message contracts and schema evolution; automate multi-step UI journeys and cross-screen state; interpret logs and metrics to diagnose production defects; define quality gates and metrics for revenue-critical releases; mentor engineers on quality practices.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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