QA Engineer jobs in Johannesburg
24 current qa engineer openings in Johannesburg, aggregated from public boards and linking straight to the employer's own posting. 15 employers are hiring across this list right now.
Working as a qa engineer in Johannesburg
The financial centre of the continent, with banking and telecoms driving most technology hiring. English is the working language throughout. Salaries are low converted to dollars and competitive locally; many roles now serve European clients remotely.
Most of the hiring in this list clusters around Sandton, Rosebank and Midrand. Location on a posting is not always literal — check whether a role is genuinely on site, and whether "remote" means remote within the country or remote from anywhere, because the two are priced differently.
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Senior QA Engineer – 10 Yrs - Johannesburg (Hybrid) Are you a talented senior QA Engineer looking for your next developer job in Johannesburg? OfferZen, the developer job…
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Our client is seeking an experienced Specialist QA Engineer to join a high-performing digital banking team based in Johannesburg. This is an excellent opportunity for a q…
The QA Automation Engineer ensures the quality, reliability, and performance of software systems by designing and executing automated testing frameworks. They play a crit…
Our client is seeking an experienced Specialist QA Engineer to join a high-performing digital banking team based in Johannesburg. This is an excellent opportunity for a q…
Our client is looking for a Senior QA Engineer specialising in Data Products to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of enterprise data platforms and analytic…
We are seeking experienced QA/QC Engineers specializing in Civil, Electrical, or MEP disciplines to support quality assurance and quality control activities on major cons…
Introduction We are seeking experienced QA/QC Engineers specializing in Civil, Electrical, or MEP disciplines to support quality assurance and quality control activities …
We are looking for experienced Senior QA/QC Engineers to lead quality assurance and quality control activities on large-scale construction projects. Candidates may specia…
Introduction We are looking for experienced Senior QA/QC Engineers to lead quality assurance and quality control activities on large-scale construction projects. Candidat…
QA Lead & Test Automation Engineer Location: Johannesburg (Full-time On-site) Contract Type: Initial 6-Month Contract (with the possibility of extension to 8 months or lo…
Johannesburg | Contract | Hybrid opportunity An established Financial Services client is looking for an experienced Quality Engineer to join a high-performing delivery te…
What will you do? Work on and contribute to the growth of our suite of mobile applications Conduct peer reviews, ensuring strict adherence to team-agreed best practices a…
iqx the Technology Division of iqbusiness is seeking an experienced .NET MAUI Developer to design, develop, and maintain secure, high-performance cross-platform mobile ap…
Camunda is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, to own automated reliability testing and chaos engineering at Camunda 8. The role rewards curiosity, experimentatio…
Camunda is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, to own automated reliability testing and chaos engineering at the core of Camunda 8. You’ll experiment, break thin…
iqx the Technology Division of iqbusiness is seeking an experienced Java Spring Developer to join its software engineering team. The successful candidate will be responsi…
Manufacturing Site Manager (Overseas Employment) Location: Te Puke, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand Now Hiring from South Africa. Are you a hands-on manufacturing leader ready…
Senior Web Developer (Hybrid) Build Modern, Scalable Web Applications That Make an Impact Boardroom Appointments is recruiting on behalf of an innovative technology organ…
Reference: PR000869-RN-1 Psybergate is an IT company that builds bespoke software solutions and provides highly skilled resources to its clients. We are looking for a Jun…
Scrums is seeking a Technical Project Manager to coordinate delivery across engineering and QA for client projects. You will keep scope, timelines, and quality aligned, w…
Reverside is an established IT services provider delivering high-quality Software Development, IT Resourcing, Digital Transformation, and Systems Support solutions. We ar…
QA Engineer pay and hiring, asked properly
What salary can a QA engineer expect?
In India, roughly 6–12 LPA at mid-level and 18–30 LPA senior, with automation roles at the top of both bands and manual-only well below. The US band is about $65,000–$100,000 mid-level, the UK £30,000–£50,000. Moving from manual-only to automation is the largest single raise most testers get.
Is manual testing still worth doing?
On its own it is a shrinking market with a low ceiling. Exploratory testing and a real sense of where a product breaks stay valuable, but as something you pair with automation rather than use instead of it. If you are manual-only today, that is the gap to close first.
Should I focus on automation or on test strategy?
Automation gets you in; strategy gets you promoted. People who only maintain a framework plateau. The ones who decide what is worth testing, where the risk actually sits, and what the team should stop testing move into lead roles.
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