\n\n\ntakealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Test Automation (Web/Apps) Engineer to join our team in either Cape Town, Stellenbosch or Johannesburg.\n\nWe are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us.  We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, 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.\n\n \n\nReporting Relationships\n\nWork closely with the QA Manager to ensure quality is implemented as part of the processes and that quality standards are adhered to.\n\nYour mission should you choose to accept it:  \n\n\n* Raise development quality by developing processes and best practices for testing in Dev\n\n* teams\n\n* Improve and automate test strategies.\n\n* Develop and execute automated test cases to diagnose issues and bugs, creating test\n\n* data when required.\n\n* Identify, design, develop, execute and maintain automation scripts/code.\n\n* Implement automation framework with continuous integration/deployment covering UI,\n\n* API, unit, DB and integration tests.\n\n* Identify testing deficiencies and subsequently implement automated tests based on their\n\n* requirements\n\n* Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs\n\n* Perform regression testing when bugs are resolved\n\n* Increase code coverage across the team’s technology stack\n\n* Develop status reports based on test completion/findings and communicate these to\n\n* team leaders including any impact on the overall project plan.\n\n* Mentoring and guiding the test team on test approaches and automation suite.\n\n* Production on-call availability on a rotational roster\n\n\n\n\n \n\nSkills needed:\n\n\n* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to understand and\n\n* critique requirements.\n\n* Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to promote cooperation between a\n\n* developer, Technical project managers, and QA team.\n\n* Flexibility to learn new technologies and explore new tools with ease\n\n* Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities or circumstances.\n\n\n\n\n \n\nQualifications and experience:\n\n\n* Bachelors Degree or Advanced Diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems or Information Technology or related field and a minimum of 3 years Test Automation experience. \n\n* In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelors Degree or Advanced Diploma (in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 6 years of Test Automation experience. \n\n* Experience with Jenkins, GitLab, Travis CI or another Continuous Integration\n\n* application will be advantageous.\n\n* Experience testing and administering in Linux and/or other Unix environments will be an\n\n* advantage.\n\n* Experience installing, upgrading, configuring and verifying (smoke tests) virtualised\n\n* testing environments (VMs) Docker, Kubernetes, Vagrant, etc…\n\n* Basic understanding of backend logistics systems is highly advantageou\n\n* Experience managing testing throughout the SDLC (development testing, unit/integration\n\n* testing, API testing, performance testing, system testing, regression testing, etc..)\n\n* Experience in testing multiple platforms, including desktop, web and mobile-based\n\n* systems\n\n* Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies and processes.\n\n* Strong experience with Python,\n\n* Experience with automation of event-driven systems e.g. Kafka\n\n* Understands web services (REST) and underlying protocols (HTTP/S, TCP/IP).\n\n* Hands-on experience with automated testing tools and frameworks Pytest, Robot\n\n* Framework, Postman, SOAPUI, Selenium (python), Appium, etc\n\n* Experience with unit test frameworks PyTest, JUnit, NUnit, etc…\n\n* Strong knowledge of databases and scripting using MySQL and/or SQL.\n\n* Experience in writing test documentation such as test plans and test cases depending upon the project\n\n* Experience using configuration management and version control using GIT or SVN.\n\n* Experience in using test management tools such as Xray, Tesflo\n\n* Experience in using bug-tracking tools such as Jira\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nThink you’ve been challenged before? Think again!\n\n\n* Scale: Over 2.5 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.\n\n* Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time.\n\n* Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, Superbalist.com and Mr D Food. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.\n\n\n\n\nLet’s talk about life @ Takealot Group\n\n\n* The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.\n\n* No doors: We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab and make something great.\n\n* Remote working: Love water cooler chats and working from home? Takealot.com offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.\n\n* 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.\n\n* 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.\n\n* 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).\n\n* Staff discount. Millions of products across 28 departments. What more could you ask for?\n\n* Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it. \n\n* 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.\n\n* Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere. \n\n* 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.\n\n* Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to). \n\n\n\n\nLike what you see? \n\nIf you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!\n\nTakealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference\n\n \n\n  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Testing, API, Legal, Engineer, Linux and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $55,000 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nCape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

\nOur Vision: Machines Will Be Our Future Workforce\nHere at MachineFi Lab, we’re building tomorrow’s internet today and powering the new reward economy by creating a fairer / safer / and more rewarding internet of things! MachineFi is a new paradigm that underpins the future Web3 machine economy, where machine resources, services, and intelligence can be monetized/financialized to deliver value, control, and ownership to everyday people and businesses, not centralized corporations. If you’re a maverick, a digital renegade, one of those who say no to the status quo, a person crazy enough to think you can change the world, then MachineFi is for you.\n\n\nSenior Engineer, SRE/DEVOPS. (Part-Time/Contract Position)\nEngineering | US (All Locations)\n\n\nJob Overview:\nWe are seeking a talented and experienced DevOps/SRE Engineer to join our fast-paced and innovative team. As a DevOps/SRE Engineer at MachineFi, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our blockchain infrastructure. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement and maintain robust DevOps practices, automate deployment pipelines, and enhance the overall system performance.\n\n\n\nResponsibilities:\n* Infrastructure Automation: Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as K8S, Terraform or Ansible on GCP and AWS.\n* Automate deployment, scaling, and management of blockchain nodes and related services.\n* Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for blockchain and backend applications to ensure efficient and reliable release processes.\n* Implement automated testing strategies to validate code quality and deployment readiness.\n* Monitoring and Incident Response: Establish and maintain monitoring solutions for the entire infrastructure.\n* Collaborate with development teams to enhance application-level monitoring and alerting.\n* Participate in on-call rotations to respond to incidents promptly.\n* Security and Compliance: Implement and enforce security best practices across the infrastructure.\n* Work closely with the security team to conduct regular audits and ensure compliance with industry standards.\n* Capacity Planning and Performance Optimization: Analyze system performance and make recommendations for improvements.\n* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan for future infrastructure needs.\n* Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for infrastructure configurations, processes, and procedures.\n\n\n\nQualifications:\n* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.\n* Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer in a blockchain/crypto environment.\n* Strong proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash).\n* Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).\n* Familiarity with blockchain technologies (e.g., Ethereum, Cosmos).\n* Significant experience with AWS public cloud technologies implemented large-scale container clusters: AWS, EKS, Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Containers technologies (Docker and Kubernetes), and IAM\n* Strong programming/scripting skills with one or more scripting languages (Python, Go, Ruby, Bash, etc.) and strong Linux OS and networking fundamentals.\n* Experience building monitoring systems to ensure high availability, performance, and security integrity (e.g., ELK-stack, Pingdom, Opsgenie/Pagerduty, Kiali, Weave Scope, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, etc.)\n* Hands-on experience in operating microservices architecture based SaaS products, REST web services, SSO (Okta, Auth0), EC2-RDS, MySQL and Elasticsearch.\n* Solid understanding of network protocols, security, and system administration.\n* Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure) and related services.\n* AWS System Architect certification is strongly preferredKnowledge of CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).\n* Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a collaborative team environment.\n* Self-motivated and excited about the ambiguity, opportunity, and self-direction required at an early stage startup.\n\n\n\n\n$175,000 - $200,000 a year\n\nIf you are passionate about blockchain technology, thrive in a dynamic environment, and possess the skills and experience outlined above, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity to contribute to the future of decentralized innovation. Join us at MachineFi and be part of a team that's shaping the future of blockchain technology.\n\n\nAbout MachineFi and Our Culture:\n\n\nMachineFi Lab, IoTeX’s core developer, is a leading tech provider for Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN), a Web3 category predicted to become a multi-trillion-dollar economy powered by billions of smart devices and trillions of sensors. Its team of over 60 research scientists and engineers released W3bstream, the world's first decentralized off-chain compute framework for smart devices and real-world data. It aims to provide advanced middleware and tools for Web2 businesses connecting to Web3 token incentives with real-world activity confirmed by user-owned smart devices, unlocking new business opportunities through its Proof-of-Anything technology, which can be used with several data sets, such as in location, activity, and humanity. \n\n\nMachineFi Lab’s easy-to-use tools for the creation of  X-and-earn scenarios, such as play-and-earn, walk-and-earn, or sleep-and-earn—community-owned machine networks, such as smart cities, public utilities, and other physical infrastructure. Backed by nearly 20 prominent VCs, including Samsung Next, Jump Crypto, Draper Dragon, Xoogler Ventures, IOSG, Wemade, and Escape Velocity, MachineFi Lab is building advanced technology to bring the metaverse into the real world, and vice versa.  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to SaaS, Web3, Testing, DevOps, Cloud, Senior, Engineer, Linux and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nUS Remote