# QA Manager - Logistics - FY27 - Company: [Takealotgroup]() - Location: Cape Town - Team: Takealot Engineering - Posted: August 7, 2026 ## Job description **[Takealot.com](https://www.takealot.com/),** South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented **QA Manager (Logistics)** to join our team. We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great. **Who’s who in the tech space** The position reports to the QA Test Manager. **Your mission should you choose to accept it:** * Lead and provide strategic oversight to multiple QA teams across diverse products and stakeholders, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives. * Foster seamless coordination and robust communication channels among QA teams and various product stakeholders to build a cohesive quality assurance strategy. * Cultivate a self-sustaining environment where teams are empowered to make autonomous decisions, thereby allowing you to dedicate efforts towards strategic enhancements and innovation in the QA domain. * Engage actively in QA processes to garner insights and drive technical advancements, leveraging firsthand experience and hand-on involvement to refine processes and develop strategic initiatives. * Build and nurture strategic alliances with product teams within and across divisions to synchronise QA goals with broader business strategies. * Contribute to the Community of Practice for Quality Assurance within the engineering landscape to share knowledge and best practices. * Spearhead recruitment efforts to attract top talent for the QA team, ensuring a robust and competent workforce. * Elevate development quality by formulating and instituting superior testing processes and practices in collaboration with engineers and engineering managers. * Collaborate with engineering leadership to architect and manage an integrated roadmap for automation initiatives, with a focus on enhancing efficiency and coverage. Play a pivotal role in refining the automation strategy and expanding automation coverage for both UI and service-based tests. * Ensure teams continuously develop, execute and maintain comprehensive test cases to identify and address bugs, aligned with best practices and strategic objectives. * Oversee the creation and maintenance of sustainable and reusable test data, ensuring data integrity and efficiency. * Proactively identify testing gaps and lead the collaborative resolution process with automation engineers, engineers, and QA Analysts. * Maintain rigorous standards in bug identification, documentation and tracking in line with strategic goals and industry best practices. * Oversee regression testing operations, ensuring robust quality control when addressing resolved bugs. * Ensure continuous feedback from production issues is integrated into the QA test base by reevaluating coverage and updating test cases to uphold adequate coverage. * Strategically increase code coverage across the technology stack by identifying critical tests at the unit, service, and functional levels. * Develop and disseminate detailed status reports based on test outcomes to team leaders, highlighting implications for overall project plans and timelines. * Initiate and drive programs aimed at elevating QA visibility in project progress, building dynamic relationships with product stakeholders to ensure early and proactive QA engagement in upcoming projects. * Mentor and coach the test teams and engineers, enhancing their capabilities in test methodologies and automation practices. **Skills needed:** * **Stakeholder Relationship Management:** Demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders across multiple teams and divisions. * **Leadership and Coordination:** Proven experience in leading and coordinating cross-functional efforts, ensuring alignment and achievement of common quality objectives across various teams. * **Team-Oriented Approach:** A team player who excels as an active listener, mentor and communicator, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing. * **Decisive and Resilient**: Exhibits solid reasoning and decision-making abilities, thriving under pressure and adapting to fast-paced environments. * **Passion for Quality and Innovation:** Deeply passionate about technology, systems and most importantly, quality assurance, with a drive to implement and sustain innovative solutions. * **Continuous Learner:** Naturally curious and committed to staying abreast of the latest trends and advancements in the testing craft. * **Self-Motivated and Adaptive:** Highly self-driven with an aptitude for rapid learning and adaptability to new tools and processes. * **Efficient Worker:** Capable of working efficiently both independently and as part of a collaborative team environment. * **Analytical and Problem-Solving Expertise:** Strong analytical skills with a keen ability to understand, critique and refine requirements to meet strategic goals. * **Effective Communicator:** Possesses strong communication skills, essential for articulating complex ideas and facilitating productive discussions across diverse teams. **Qualifications and experience:** * Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering and a minimum of 5 years of Software QA experience in a software/technology environment is required, 2 years of which should be in a QA management role. * In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma (in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 8 years of Software QA management experience in a software/technology environment, 4 years of which should be in a QA management role. * Experience managing QA efforts across multiple teams to ensure alignment with best practices and cohesive QA strategies. * Strong background in designing and implementing scalable QA processes and strategies to support continuous improvement and efficiency. * Proven experience overseeing the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) testing process (development, unit, API, performance, system testing, etc.). * Hands-on expertise in both glassbox and behavior based testing methodologies, including writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and cases. * Proficiency in SQL and scripting, with experience in tools such as Jenkins or other CI/CD applications. * Experience with automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright) and in-house integration testing tools built in Python and Kotlin, with a strong understanding of configuration management and version control. * Experience with performance and security testing is an advantage. * Ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and tools to improve testing processes. **Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!** * **Scale:** Over 2.5 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do. * **Learn:** We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time. * **Grow:**Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, Superbalist.com and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance. **Let’s talk about life @ Takealot Group** * **The power is in your hands:** We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package that allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny. * **No doors:** We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab and make something great. * **Remote working:** Love water cooler chats and working from home? Takealot.com offers a remote working model with the option to come into the office. The choice is yours to be at the office, fully remote or a mix. * **Mentorship programme:** We aren’t kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Now’s your chance to be one of the best, by learning from the best. * **Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning:** Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Up-skill with free access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera and more. * **Good times:** Get to know the other extraordinary minds at takealot.com during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times). * **Staff discount:**Millions of products across 28 departments. What more could you ask for? * **TakealotMore**Benefit * **Birthday leave:** Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it. * **Right tools, right job:** Mac or Windows, two monitors or one. Whatever your preference, you’ll work on the latest tech, off the latest tech. * **Help when you need it most:** Confidential counselling, legal support, and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere. * **Tech stack (for days):** ReactJS, Python, Scala, Kotlin, Swift, Google Cloud, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, and all things machine learning. If you build it, they will come. * **Free parking:**No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to). **Like what you see?** If you meet the above you are an **Extraordinary Mind.** Apply today!! *Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference* ## Apply [Apply on Takealotgroup]() Canonical job page: