Pay@, a leading payment aggregator and provider of secure payment solutions, is looking for a QA Engineer to join their growing team in Stellenbosch. This role will be responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of our payment platforms through a combination of manual and automated testing.

The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented problem solver with strong software testing and automation experience. They are passionate about quality, enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams, and have the technical skills to build and maintain effective manual and automated testing solutions in a fast-paced development environment.

Responsibilities include:

• Designing, writing and executing test cases for new and existing functionality.

• Functional, regression, integration and end-to-end testing of payment systems.

• Building, maintaining and extending automated test suites in JavaScript.

• Developing end-to-end automation against web UIs and API's.

• Integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and monitoring test stability.

• Testing new client integrations into our platforms.

• API testing and validation of OpenAPI-based integrations.

• Logging, tracking and verifying defects through to resolution.

• Collaborating closely with developers, product and support teams throughout the SDLC.

• Assisting with UAT and supporting production release verification.

• Assisting with query resolution and 3rd line support investigations.

• All other tasks related to the role.

Minimum requirements:

• Tertiary qualification in Software Development, Computer Science, Engineering or a related QA qualification (ISTQB advantageous);

• 4+ years relevant software QA / testing experience, including hands-on test automation;

• Strong working knowledge of JavaScript for writing automated tests;

• Experience with a modern JS-based automation framework (Playwright or similar);

• Solid understanding of QA methodologies, test design techniques and the software development lifecycle;

• API testing experience (Postman, REST Assured or similar) and familiarity with OpenAPI;

• SQL (MS SQL Server / Postgres) - ability to query and validate data;

• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GIT, build tools);

• Defect tracking tools (e.g. Jira) and strong documentation skills;

• Experience with Playwright, performance testing tools (JMeter, Grafana k6), and containerised test environments (Docker) will be advantageous;

• Exposure to financial transaction processing systems, payment switching platforms (e.g. Postilion), Agile/Scrum methodologies, and front-end testing of Angular applications will be advantageous.

Please apply online at www.m3online.co.za before 09:00 on 25 June 2026.

For general enquiries, contact our team at M3 Human Capital Management on XXX-XXXX.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates are contacted. If no feedback is received within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application was unsuccessful.