Intermediate Software Tester/QA Engineer

Hired through Project Y for a leading European QA consultancy | Onsite in Cape Town or Johannesburg

Join a global QA team working on flight-critical systems

Project Y is hiring on behalf of a European QA consultancy supporting one of the continent’s largest airline groups. You’ll be joining a distributed quality engineering team responsible for ensuring the stability and reliability of complex software used in daily flight operations.

This is a full-time, long-term role, based onsite in Cape Town or Johannesburg, with daily collaboration across teams in Europe, India, and Africa.

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll be embedded in a high-performing QA team focused on end-to-end testing of mission-critical airline systems. Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing and executing automated and manual test cases

• Writing scripts using tools like Selenium, Postman, or Cypress

• Logging, tracking, and verifying defects in Jira

• Testing across APIs, UIs, and backend systems

• Participating in regular syncs with international QA and development teams

• Contributing to continuous improvement of test coverage, reliability, and release quality

You won’t just be clicking through test cases, you’ll be part of a serious engineering environment where your work has real-world operational impact.