QA Engineer (Freelance Contractor)

Location : Open to Cape Town, Johannesburg or Durban based applicants

Duration : 6 month initial contract

Type : Open to Independent Freelance or Fixed Term Employment Contract

Start date : W / beg 21st July

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior QA Engineer to join our dynamic and collaborative software development team. As a senior member, you will play a critical role in championing quality across our products. Responsible for designing, developing, and executing sophisticated automated test strategies, you will mentor other QA team members and drive the continuous improvement of our quality processes within our agile environment.

Your main objective is to lead the quality assurance efforts by designing, building, and maintaining complex and robust test frameworks. A key influencer, you will drive QA strategy, mentor other test engineers, and help to grow the overall testing capability within the organization, ensuring our products meet the highest standards of quality, reliability, and performance before they reach our customers.

About the role

Deliver Working Software

• Define, implement, and evolve the overall test strategy for our products, ensuring comprehensive test coverage
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, and reusable automated test frameworks integrated into our CI / CD pipeline
• Author and execute comprehensive test plans and test cases (manual and automated) to test desktop, web, and mobile applications
• Set up, execute, and analyse performance and load testing scenarios to ensure application scalability and stability
• Identify, document, and track defects with clarity and precision using tools like Jira; collaborate with the development team to ensure timely resolution

Team Collaboration and Participation

Process Improvement

About you

About Vista

Vista Group is the global leader in providing technology solutions to the international film industry. With brands including Vista, Veezi, Movio, Numero, Maccs, Flicks and Powster, our expertise covers cinema management software; loyalty, moviegoer engagement and marketing; film distribution software; box office reporting; creative studio solutions; and movie, cinema and streaming content discovery.

With more than 700 crew based across six main offices, in New Zealand (Auckland headquarters), the USA, the UK, South Africa, the Netherlands, and Mexico, our people are our most important asset. Across the group brands our teams provide market-leading services to clients in more than 100 countries.

We are proud of our diversity and have placed a high priority on being an inclusive workplace that is reflective of our clients and communities. It is important to us to foster an environment that empowers people to realise their full potential. We aim to do ‘good things with good people’ and we’re proud to say that more than two decades on that’s exactly what we do every single day.

Shared Standards

Our Shared Standards act as a compass for how we work together and reflect the behaviours we value at Vista Group. The way in which each member of our crew embodies these Shared Standards is an indicator for performance and success, as it aligns with our vision and strategy.

One Crew

Shine a Light

Make it Happen

Chase Great

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