I’m Joshua Kinnear, a results-driven technology professional, CEO and Founder with approximately 17 years of experience spanning software engineering, QA leadership, test automation, cloud, artificial intelligence and digital media innovation.
I connect business needs, software architecture and practical quality engineering to help teams deliver reliable products with confidence.
My strength is the ability to operate across the complete software-delivery lifecycle—from analysing requirements and reviewing architecture to developing automation frameworks, validating APIs and databases, troubleshooting containerised services, supporting pipelines and introducing governed AI-assisted solutions.
As a QA Lead, I mentor junior and intermediate engineers and give teams the structure, technical guidance and confidence needed to grow.
Combining technology, community development and broadcasting to create modern online radio platforms that help local voices reach wider audiences.
Founder and strategic leader of Radio Eersteriver, a community-focused online radio station created to amplify local talent, stories, businesses and voices. I lead its digital strategy, technology platforms, online presence and continued growth.
Through REmedia House, I design and build complete online radio platforms for communities and organisations across South Africa. The work brings together branding, WordPress development, streaming technology, mobile access and digital audience engagement.
Developed the online platform for SONshine FM in Boksburg, helping the station establish a professional digital broadcasting presence and connect with audiences across the East Rand and beyond.
Hands-on technical delivery, strategic quality leadership and long-term team development across enterprise environments.
Leading community media and building professional online radio platforms across South Africa. I combine broadcasting strategy, brand development, WordPress engineering, streaming technology and digital audience experience, including the SONshine FM platform in Boksburg.
Leading QA strategy, modernising the Playwright automation landscape, managing penetration-testing schedules and building internal QA reporting and SQL tools. I mentor QA engineers, collaborate with product and engineering leaders, and drive quality throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Introduced mobile automation and played a key role in growing the automation team, including participation in management-level interviews and technical hiring.
Introduced automation, established the Cape Town QA team, trained new team members and led delivery across projects.
Designed and implemented automation frameworks using C#, Node.js and WebdriverIO, integrated with BrowserStack for distributed testing.
Joined as the company’s first and only QA engineer and built the Python web-application automation capability from scratch.
Managed a 10-person team, rosters, rotation and 24/7 on-call support. Defined quality standards, supported automation growth and collaborated across engineering, product and management.
Enterprise experience across application development, automation, infrastructure, data and operations.
Java 6–21, enterprise services, JDBC, REST, Maven, Gradle and reusable automation libraries.
.NET Framework, .NET Core, .NET 6–8, APIs, dependency injection, integration testing and support.
Pytest, Pandas, Requests, SQLAlchemy, OpenPyXL, reconciliation, reporting and DevOps scripting.
Modern ES6+, Node.js applications, browser automation, API validation and frontend development.
Complex queries, data reconciliation, backend validation, transactions, stored procedures and performance analysis.
Laravel, Livewire, WordPress, APIs, authentication, admin portals, file management and payments.
Windows administration, deployment, service management, log collection, reporting and pipeline support.
Linux/Unix administration, deployment automation, Docker, databases, monitoring and scheduled jobs.
AngularJS through Angular 18; React 16–19; components, routing, forms and responsive validation.
Selenium 2–4, Playwright, Appium, WebdriverIO, Page Objects, Grid, parallel and cross-browser testing.
Pytest, JUnit, NUnit and TestNG with fixtures, assertions, parameterisation, mocking and reporting.
REST, SOAP, Postman, OAuth 2.0, JWT, contracts, Kafka, RabbitMQ, payments and idempotency.
Deploying, testing, monitoring and supporting secure applications and automated delivery across cloud platforms.
Virtual machines, identity, storage, databases, networking, containers and Azure DevOps.
Cloud infrastructure, hosted services, storage, security and CodePipeline / CodeBuild.
Cloud-based environments, infrastructure services and Google Cloud Build.
I build pipelines that automate compilation, testing, quality analysis, deployment validation, reporting and notifications.
I apply AI to code generation and review, requirements analysis, test design, regression selection, SQL reconciliation, log investigation, documentation and internal tools—while validating results for accuracy, security, bias and hallucinations.
Approximately 17 years of combined relational and NoSQL database experience, including large-volume financial validation and reconciliation.
I am interested in QA leadership, technical leadership and specialist opportunities where I can grow people, improve delivery workflows and solve complex quality problems.