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Senior QA Engineer, Remote, R1.2m pa

ScoutIT
8 days ago
Full-time
Remote
South Africa
Senior QA Engineer

Introduction

A great role is here for a highly skilled payments specialist QA Engineer.

This team is revolutionizing its Quality Assurance function, where QA Engineers are embedded within engineering pods. YouΒ will occupy a critical junction between legacy stability and future innovation. You will own and lead the quality assurance strategy, ensuring our systems meet rigorous ISO8583 standards for Acquirer and Scheme sign-off, while simultaneously architecting AI-driven automation to redefine how we validate payment lifecycles.Β 

You will join a cutting edge team that builds and maintains the; Card Gateway services, integrations with Acquiring banks, the Card Gateway infrastructure, Acquirer connectivity and monitoring and alerting. The mission is to provide reliable, compliant and secure card payment processing.

Desired Experience & Qualification

  • Relevant IT degree / certification
  • 5+ years proven QA Engineering experience
  • Deep understanding of end-to-end card payment flows, from authorization through clearing, settlement, and reconciliation, across both Card-Present (CP) and Card-Not-Present (CNP) channels.Β 
  • QA experience validating EMV transaction flows (contact & contactless)
  • Quality assurance for eCommerce card transactions
  • Test design and validation for pre-authorizations, incremental authorizations, and delayed captures
  • QA coverage for card tokenization flows
  • Testing of payment switch processing
  • QA validation aligned with card scheme specifications (e.g. Visa, Mastercard)
  • Strong experience testing ISO-8583-based message flows
  • Ability to define payment-specific quality metrics, such as authorization success rates, decline patterns, and scheme error distributions.Β 

Package & Remuneration

R85k to R100k pm

Interested?