QA Engineer (Manual & Automation) - Cape Town

Pinewood.AI is seeking a technically strong, hands-on QA Engineer to deliver our quality strategy for our Automotive Intelligence Platform.

We are seeking a QA Engineer with a strong manual testing mindset who has some experience with automation testing and takes ownership of product quality and user experience. This role focuses on thoughtful, risk‑based testing, clear communication, and collaboration.

You’ll work closely with engineering and product teams to ensure features are fit for purpose, reliable, and releasable, while contributing to continuous improvement of our QA approach.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Own manual testing for assigned features from refinement to release
• Design and execute meaningful test scenarios, not just scripted cases
• Perform functional, regression, exploratory, and integration testing
• Validate requirements and acceptance criteria
• Identify risk, edge cases, and user‑impacting defects early
• Provide clear go/no‑go quality assessments for releases
• Raise clear, actionable defects with strong reproduction steps
• Assess severity, priority, and customer impact
• Work closely with developers to support root‑cause analysis
• Retest fixes thoroughly and verify acceptance
• Engage actively in backlog refinement, planning, and retros
• Challenge unclear or incomplete requirements constructively