Test Analyst Job Durban South Africa,IT/Tech

"At Klipboard we've introduced a flexible hybrid work policy, where employees spend three days in the office and two days working from home. This approach promotes a balanced work environment that combines office collaboration with the comfort and convenience of remote work."

Klipboard provides specialist software, services and support to deliver fully integrated trading and business management solutions to companies in the distributive trade – wherever they are in the world. With a unique depth of knowledge and experience in ERP/SaaS solutions, Klipboard has a wide range of clients includes wholesalers, distributors, merchants and retailers from small traders to multinational enterprises. Klipboard has offices in the UK, Ireland, The Netherlands, South Africa, Kenya and North America.

Our mission is simple: to design and deliver high performance, integrated ERP solutions that enable our distributive trade customers to source effectively, stock efficiently, sell profitably and service competitively

We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer to take ownership of quality across a large, mature, and business-critical product suite in the automotive industry. This is a hands-on individual contributor role with a strong mandate to design, implement, and embed QA processes where none currently exist.

You will work with complex systems spanning garage management, tyre hotels, scheduling and calendars, integrations, and industry-specific EDI flows across Nordic markets, expanding into the UK and US markets. This role is for someone who knows how good QA should work and can make that happen in practice.

This is not a “follow the process” role, you will define the process, select the tooling, and set the quality bar.

Key Responsibilities:

Quality Ownership & Process Building

Establish QA processes, standards, and ways of working from the ground up

Define test strategies across manual, automation, performance, and security testing

Introduce pragmatic quality gates and contribute toward future release sign-off ownership

Champion shift-left testing and quality mindset across engineering teams

Automation & Technical Testing

Design and build automated test frameworks (automation is mandatory)

Automate API, integration, and UI test coverage across a complex .NET-centric ecosystem

Test mature codebases with multiple subsystems, services, and integrations

Validate business-critical workflows involving scheduling, calendars, and automotive operations

API, Integration & Non-Functional Testing

Test REST APIs and complex integrations (including EDI-style integrations)

Perform performance, load, and reliability testing

Contribute to security and robustness testing where appropriate

Agile Collaboration

Actively participate in refinement by shaping clear, testable acceptance criteria

Collaborate with developers during sprint planning to ensure quality considerations are embedded early

Work within Scrum (2-week sprints) using Azure Dev Ops

Mentorship & Influence

Mentor engineers and future QA team members

Help define what “good quality” means across teams and countries

Operate comfortably in a cross-team, cross-country environment

Skills, Knowledge and

Experience:

Technical Environment

Backend: .NET, .NET Web APIs

Database: SQL

Infrastructure:
Azure, IIS, Windows-based environments

Tooling:
Azure Dev Ops (boards, repos, pipelines)

Testing focus: REST APIs, UI testing, automation frameworks, performance testing

What We’re Looking For

Essential

Senior-level QA experience with strong automation expertise

Proven experience building QA processes and tooling from scratch

Deep understanding of testing across APIs, integrations, UI, and non-functional areas

Strong ownership mindset, you see gaps and close them

Comfortable working with complex, long-lived systems

Able to balance pragmatism with high standards

Highly Valued

Experience testing large, distributed, business-critical systems

Confidence influencing developers and engineering leadership

Experience in cross-border, distributed teams

Someone who gets things done, not just talks about best practice

Ways of Working & Culture

Hybrid working, flexible hours in line with Swedish labour law

Close-knit, respectful,…


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