Head, Quality Assurance & Testing Centre

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head, Quality Assurance & Testing Centre

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full Time

About the Role

• This role directs four testing disciplines — Functional, Automated, Performance, and Security Testing — through specialist leads and engineers.
• The Head, Quality Assurance & Testing Centre ensures Polaris Bank's software ships reliably, performs under load, and is free of critical defects and security vulnerabilities before reaching production.

Key Responsibilities
Functional Testing Oversight:

• Ensure comprehensive functional, regression, and system integration testing across all releases
• Set test case design and defect tracking standards

Automated Testing Oversight:

• Drive toward the bank's target automation coverage to enable faster, safer release cycles
• Direct the build-out and maintenance of test automation frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines

Performance Testing Oversight:

• Oversee performance monitoring practices that catch degradation before it affects customers
• Ensure systems are validated for performance, scalability, and load capacity before major releases

Security Testing Oversight:

• Ensure security assessments, vulnerability scanning, and penetration testing are performed on all releases
• Escalate and track remediation of identified vulnerabilities in coordination with security architecture and engineering teams

Qualifications

• Demonstrated track record leading QA/testing functions in a fast-release software environment, ideally banking or fintech
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field; ISTQB or equivalent certification an advantage

Core Competencies:

• Cross-functional coordination with engineering, architecture, and security teams
• CI/CD-integrated automation practices
• Test strategy and quality leadership across manual, automated, performance, and security testing disciplines
• Working knowledge of application security testing methodology (OWASP)

Familiarity With Tools (used by the function's teams):

• JIRA, TestRail, Zephyr; Selenium, Cypress, Appium, TestNG, JUnit, Postman, RestAssured, Jenkins, GitHub Actions; JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, BlazeMeter; Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Nessus, Snyk, Veracode.