Lead, Quality Assurance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Nigeria.

📋 Description

• Oversee the QA function across various engineering teams – establish quality benchmarks, strategies, and scalable frameworks.

• Guide and manage QA Analysts and Engineers – support their growth into their best selves through coaching, constructive feedback, and career advancement opportunities.

• Develop and implement testing strategies, encompassing manual and automated testing, regression, performance, and exploratory testing.

• Create insightful dashboards and metrics to assess QA performance: including test cases created and executed, bug leakage, regression rates, and more.

• Collaborate closely with engineers to act as a quality gatekeeper, reviewing product specifications, technical documentation, and code when needed.

• Promote continuous enhancement of QA processes, tools, and team interactions.

• Ensure a comprehensive understanding of the product within the QA team so that test cases are not only exhaustive but also pertinent and user-focused.

• Foster a robust quality culture by partnering with engineering, product, and business stakeholders.

• Transform data into insights by effectively converting test metrics into dashboards and reports that inform team performance and product health.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in Quality Engineering, including 4–5 years of leadership within engineering teams, showcasing a strong history of building, mentoring, and scaling high-performing teams.

• Proficient programming skills in Java, with an emphasis on tooling and automation.

• Extensive experience in testing APIs, microservices, mobile native, and web applications.

• Proficient in working with Linux/Unix environments and cloud infrastructure (GCP, Docker).

• Strong understanding of SQL, NoSQL databases, and pub-sub technologies.

• Experience in non-functional testing, covering performance, security, and monitoring/alerting.

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins / GitHub Actions / Harness).

• Familiar with AI/ML-based test generation or test impact analysis.

• Significant experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies and leading small-to-medium teams.

• Strong technical background, including hands-on coding and a thorough understanding of software development.

• Proven ability to cultivate collaboration, trust, and transparency across diverse teams.

• Experience in owning and managing system architecture for large-scale, secure, and scalable platforms.

• Capability to mentor, recruit, and develop engineering talent in a setting that values continuous learning.

🏝️ Benefits

• Culture - We prioritize our people and the well-being of every team member. Our company fosters an environment where all opinions are valued and all voices are heard. We respect and support one another, emphasizing our humanity above all.

• Learning - We maintain a learning and development-centric atmosphere with a focus on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical discussions.

• Compensation - You will receive a competitive salary, pension, health insurance, paid leave, along with additional benefits.