South Africa
1 month ago

Job Overview

Job Type
Contractor
Pay
Not disclosed

Job description

Location:
South Africa
Work arrangement:
Remote

Role Summary

About Huzzle

At Huzzle , we connect exceptional talent with top opportunities at leading companies across the UK, US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Our clients include fast-growing startups, SaaS platforms, and digital-first businesses. Unlike traditional outsourcing models, you are placed directly with a client as an in-house team member, contributing to impactful, real-world products.

Role Type: Full-time

Engagement: Independent Contractor

As a QA Engineer, you'll play a critical role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of web and mobile applications. You'll collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and designers to identify issues early, improve testing processes, and help deliver high-quality software releases.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience in manual and/or automated software testing who enjoys solving problems and contributing to fast-paced product development teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scripts.
  • Perform manual testing for web and mobile applications.
  • Develop and maintain automated test suites where applicable.
  • Identify, document, track, and verify software defects using bug-tracking tools.
  • Collaborate with developers to troubleshoot issues and validate fixes.
  • Conduct regression, functional, integration, usability, and performance testing.
  • Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release testing.
  • Ensure software meets quality standards before production deployment.
  • Continuously improve QA processes, documentation, and testing methodologies.
  • Communicate testing progress, risks, and quality metrics to stakeholders.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance or QA Engineering.
  • Strong understanding of software testing principles and QA methodologies.
  • Experience performing manual testing across web applications.
  • Familiarity with automated testing frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or similar.
  • Experience working with bug tracking and project management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or Trello.
  • Understanding of Agile or Scrum software development methodologies.
  • Experience testing REST APIs using tools like Postman is an advantage.
  • Basic knowledge of SQL and database testing is preferred.
  • Strong analytical thinking and attention to detail.
  • Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
  • Ability to work independently in a remote, collaborative environment.
  • Nice to Have
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
  • Familiarity with Git version control.
  • Performance or security testing experience.
  • ISTQB Certification or equivalent QA certification.
  • Experience testing SaaS platforms or cloud-based applications.

Benefits

  • πŸ’° Competitive salary based on experience and seniority
  • πŸš€ Work on impactful, user-facing products with a global reach
  • πŸ“ˆ Clear career progression in a high-growth tech environment
  • 🌎 Fully remote role with an international team.
  • πŸŽ“ Access to ongoing learning and professional development.
  • 🀝 Collaborative engineering culture with modern development practices.

About the Company

Our client is a fast-growing performance marketing agency that helps direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands scale profitably through Paid Media, Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), creative strategy, and conversion-focused publisher networks. Acting as an extension of their clients’ in-house growth teams, they specialize in rapid testing, high-converting funnels, and data-driven experimentation to drive measurable revenue growth.

Role:
Remote QA Engineer
Job Type:
Contractor

Company profile

Huzzle is an agentic, AI-native hiring platform for recruiting the top 2% of global talent. Its AI recruiter, Heidi, autonomously sources, screens and interviews candidates and matches them with employers, and the company states that clients can make a hire in 11 days. The platform recruits for roles such as account executives, virtual assistants, SEO specialists, AI engineers, bookkeepers, project managers and data annotators. Huzzle says it is trusted by more than 650 companies.

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