We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Lead, Quality Assurance
Location: Lagos (Remote)
What you’ll get to do
- Lead the QA function across multiple engineering teams – drive quality standards, strategies, and frameworks that scale.
- Mentor and manage QA Analysts and Engineers – help them grow into the best versions of themselves through coaching, feedback, and career development.
- Design and enforce test strategies, including manual and automated testing, regression, performance, and exploratory testing.
- Build out meaningful dashboards and metrics to measure QA performance: test cases written and executed, bug leakage, regression rates, and more.
- Collaborate closely with engineers to serve as a gatekeeper of quality, reviewing product requirements, technical documentation, and code when necessary.
- Drive continuous improvement in QA processes, tools, and team dynamics.
- Ensure deep product understanding within the QA team so test cases are not only thorough but also relevant and user-centric.
- Promote a strong quality culture by working hand-in-hand with engineering, product, and business stakeholders
- Turn data into insight by effectively transforming test metrics into dashboards and reports that guide team performance and product health.
Key Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, including 4–5 years leading engineering teams, with a strong track record of building, mentoring, and scaling high-performing teams.
- Strong programming skills in Java with a focus on tooling and automation
- Strong experience in testing APIs, microservices, mobile native, and web applications.
- Proficiency in working with Linux/Unix environments and cloud infrastructure (GCP, Docker).
- Strong knowledge of SQL, NoSQL databases, and pub-sub technologies.
- Experience in non-functional testing, including performance, security, and monitoring/alerting.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins / GitHub Actions / Harness).
- Familiarity with AI/ML-based test generation or test impact analysis.
- Strong experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies and leading small-to-medium teams.
- Strong technical experience, including hands-on coding and a solid understanding of software development.
- Proven ability to foster collaboration, trust, and transparency across diverse teams.
- Experience owning and overseeing system architecture for large-scale, secure, and scalable platforms.
- Ability to mentor, recruit, and grow engineering talent in an environment that prioritizes continuous learning.
To succeed in this role, you should have:
- Experience leading and scaling a QA team in a fast-paced, tech-driven environment.
- A background (previous experience) as a QA Analyst or Engineer, you understand the job from the inside out.
- Experience designing and evaluating test strategies and measuring test effectiveness.
- Strong technical depth, you understand how software works and are familiar with the fundamentals (APIs, microservices, infrastructure).
- Solid analytical skills, you can connect the dots, interpret patterns in data, and ask the right questions to drive clarity and solutions.
- A mentorship-first mindset, you’ve built and led strong, collaborative teams and care deeply about your team’s growth.
- Hands-on experience with creating QA frameworks, building test dashboards, and defining success metrics.
- High integrity and emotional intelligence, you’re candid, constructive, and deeply aligned with team and company culture.
- Strong performance management experience, you can assess, evaluate, and coach team members using clear KPIs and deliverables.
- Proactivity, you don’t wait to be told what to do; you’re constantly thinking about what’s next and how we can improve.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.