Senior Engineer, Software Test Engineering

Originally started in Johannesburg, South Africa, we pride ourselves on creating memorable experiences for everyone involved in Nando’s: from our employees, communities, founders, and suppliers — but most importantly, our customers.

We have recently been growing our digital capabilities to ensure the Nando’s experience remains relevant to modern-day customers.

The Customer Web Experience Team is seeking a Contract Senior QA Engineer to join our team. Our remit is to bring the Nando’s brand to life with a brilliant web presence.

It’s an exciting time to join if you’re interested in building beautiful, accessible, and web-performant customer experiences. Our team owns the customer Online Ordering Web Experience — whether it’s delivery, click‑and‑collect, or order‑at‑table — and we’re pushing it to be genuinely world‑leading.

• Own the QA vision for our website and online-ordering products – design the automation strategy, define the standards, implement the vision and evangelise best practice.
• Consider post-deployment monitoring as a core area of the ongoing quality strategy.
• Blend automation with exploratory/manual QA during the re-platform project, ensuring speed doesn’t outweigh quality.
• Investigate and share smart, AI-assisted approaches to end-to-end testing where they add genuine value (e.g. self-healing tests, AI-driven test-data generation).
• Champion accessibility as “Everyone is Welcome” – bake automated checks and targeted manual audits into the pipeline, and own end-to-end compliance with the EU Accessibility Act.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers and product in an agile squad – planning test coverage early, pairing on tricky scenarios and championing accessibility and performance.
• Report clear, actionable insights on quality metrics, release readiness and production issues.

Experience required:

• Testing modern web applications built with React, Next.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, Vercel.
• Leading QA automation for complex web products, writing robust Playwright tests in TypeScript.
• Comfort switching between automated and manual testing – knowing when to automate and when to explore.
• Strong foundations in testing types: functional UI/API, integration, performance, accessibility, and security.
• Experience with web migrations or large-scale CMS migrations.
• Opinions on how Gen-AI can (and can’t) speed up quality workflows.

We’re committed to creating an inclusive and respectful culture for all – including our existing and future Nandocas, partners and suppliers, customers, and the communities we are a part of.