Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

SUMMARY:
An established and innovative player in the mining technology space is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to drive the design, implementation, and scaling of its quality assurance function. This is a rare opportunity to build a QA practice from the ground up—initially focusing on manual testing, and evolving into a full automation strategy across a sophisticated tech stack.
You’ll be working with a platform hosted on AWS Cloud and backed by SQL Server, powering desktop (Electron), mobile (React Native), and web (React) applications

POSITION INFO:

Key Responsibilities

Manual Testing & Test Case Development

• Perform thorough manual testing across desktop, mobile, and web applications.
• Develop and maintain detailed test cases, test plans, and acceptance criteria.
• Validate configuration-heavy workflows tailored to multiple client environments.

Automation Strategy & Implementation

• Architect and implement a scalable automation testing framework.
• Utilize tools like Playwright, Appium, Selenium, Detox, WinAppDriver, and others.
• Apply mocking/stubbing techniques for hardware-interfacing components to enable automation.

Multi-Environment QA Setup

• Set up and maintain QA, SIT, and UAT environments to support staged deployments.
• Collaborate with DevOps on CI/CD integration (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Establish a formal release verification and sign-off process.

Hardware & IoT Integration Testing

• Design and execute test plans for IoT and hardware-related systems.
• Simulate hardware environments where physical access is limited.
• Validate real-world performance, accuracy, and reliability of hardware-software integrations.

Defect Tracking & Process Improvement

• Log, prioritise, and track bugs using tools like GitHub.
• Measure and report on test effectiveness and software quality metrics.
• Continuously improve QA processes using Agile and DevOps-aligned best practices.

Requirements

Must-Have - non negotiable:

• 5+ years in software testing (manual + automation).
• Strong experience across desktop, mobile, and web platforms.
• Proven ability to implement and scale test automation frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools (e.g., Playwright, Appium, Selenium).
• Familiarity with QA, SIT, and UAT environment setups.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and version control (GitHub, Bitbucket, etc.).
• Ability to mock/stub hardware interfaces.
• Solid grasp of API testing, test data management, and performance/security testing basics.