Software Quality Engineer

2 days ago

South Africa Nedbank Private Wealth Full time R400 000 - R600 000 per year

Job Classification
  • Job Requisition: 143089
  • TA Specialist: Refilwe Falatsi
  • Closing Date: 12 December 2025
  • Location: 135 Rivonia Campus, Sandton
  • Cluster: Personal and Private Banking | Nedbank Insurance | BITE
  • Please Note: Preference will be given to applicants from Underrepresented Groups
About the role

Are you passionate about automation, quality assurance, and innovation? Join Nedbank Insurance as a Software Quality Engineer and play a key role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable solutions. You will leverage advanced frameworks and tools to design, develop, and implement reusable automated test assets, aligning with enterprise standards and best practices.

Job Purpose

Use the  automation test kit (frameworks and pre-defined test tools) to inspect, analyse, design, develop, implement and execute on re-useable automated test assets to quality assure the solution and its architecture to ensure the overall quality of the solution, whilst aligning to the prescribed enterprise quality practices and standards.

Job Responsibilities
  • Build and foster deep relationship with Peers, Subject Matter Experts, Developers, Product Owner and other Stakeholders through transparent communication which align to the Nedbank Values.  
  • Design, develop, and execute automated test solutions using enterprise test kits and frameworks.
  • Collaborate with QA Leads, Developers, Architects, and Product Owners to meet client expectations.
  • Participate in Agile ceremonies: sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
  • Integrate automation into DevOps pipelines for continuous delivery.
  • Log and manage defects, perform root cause analysis, and report testing status daily.
  • Contribute to technical capability improvements within the team.
  • Stay abreast of industry trends and apply innovative solutions within the Nedbank ecosystem.
  • Discuss the low level design and functional requirements with the QA Lead, Application/Solution Architect to understand the approach to test automation.    
People Specification Qualification
  • Essential Qualification: Advanced Diploma/National First Degree in IT or related field. (NQF 7)
  • Preferred Qualification: BSc (IT) or BComm (IT)
  • Certification: ISTQB Advanced (required - non negotiable), Agile & DevOps Bootcamp training.
Minimum Experience Level

3–6 years in test automation, analysis, and design; Agile delivery; TDD/BDD; DevOps pipelines.

  • Technical Skills

    •    Development languages: Java, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP).

    •    Mobile Test Automation.

    •    SOAP & RESTful services.

    •    Testing tools/frameworks: Selenium, Appium, RestAssured, Karate, JMeter, Jira.

    •    Service & Data Virtualisation.

    •    Performance, load, and vulnerability testing.
Behavioural Competencies
  • Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
  • Guiding Team Success
  • Building Customer Relationships
  • Decision Making
  • Innovation
  • Driving for Results
  • High-Impact Communication
Why Join Us?


•    Work with cutting-edge technology in a collaborative, innovative environment.

•    Be part of a team that values continuous learning and growth.

•    Enjoy flexible, agile ways of working aligned to Nedbank's culture and values.


Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team

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