Lead, Quality Assurance (Remote)

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Lead, Quality Assurance

Location: Lagos (Remote)

About the role

• This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for owning and driving the strategy, execution, and culture of Quality Assurance across our Engineering teams.
• You will lead a team of smart, detail-oriented QA Analysts and Engineers, ensuring the products we build meet the highest standards of quality and reliability.
• You’ll be working directly with developers, product managers, and engineering leadership to make sure everything we ship to our users is production-ready and delivers happiness.

What you’ll get to do

• Promote a strong quality culture by working hand-in-hand with engineering, product, and business stakeholders
• Design and enforce test strategies, including manual and automated testing, regression, performance, and exploratory testing.
• Mentor and manage QA Analysts and Engineers – help them grow into the best versions of themselves through coaching, feedback, and career development.
• Turn data into insight by effectively transforming test metrics into dashboards and reports that guide team performance and product health.
• 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.
• Build out meaningful dashboards and metrics to measure QA performance: test cases written and executed, bug leakage, regression rates, and more.
• Lead the QA function across multiple engineering teams – drive quality standards, strategies, and frameworks that scale.
• Ensure deep product understanding within the QA team so test cases are not only thorough but also relevant and user-centric.

To succeed in this role, you should have

• Hands-on experience with creating QA frameworks, building test dashboards, and defining success metrics.
• A background (previous experience) as a QA Analyst or Engineer, you understand the job from the inside out.
• 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.
• Strong technical depth, you understand how software works and are familiar with the fundamentals (APIs, microservices, infrastructure).
• Experience leading and scaling a QA team in a fast-paced, tech-driven environment.
• A mentorship-first mindset, you’ve built and led strong, collaborative teams and care deeply about your team’s growth.
• Experience designing and evaluating test strategies and measuring test effectiveness.
• Solid analytical skills, you can connect the dots, interpret patterns in data, and ask the right questions to drive clarity and solutions.
• Proactivity, you don’t wait to be told what to do; you’re constantly thinking about what’s next and how we can improve.

Key Requirements

• Experience owning and overseeing system architecture for large-scale, secure, and scalable platforms.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins / GitHub Actions / Harness).
• 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.
• Experience in non-functional testing, including performance, security, and monitoring/alerting.
• Strong programming skills in Java with a focus on tooling and automation
• Strong knowledge of SQL, NoSQL databases, and pub-sub technologies.
• Familiarity with AI/ML-based test generation or test impact analysis.
• Ability to mentor, recruit, and grow engineering talent in an environment that prioritizes continuous learning.
• Strong experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies and leading small-to-medium teams.
• Strong experience in testing APIs, microservices, mobile native, and web applications.
• Proficiency in working with Linux/Unix environments and cloud infrastructure (GCP, Docker).
• Proven ability to foster collaboration, trust, and transparency across diverse teams.
• Strong technical experience, including hands-on coding and a solid understanding of software development.

What We Can Offer You

• Learning - We have a learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
• Compensation - You’ll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance, annual bonus, plus other benefits.
• Culture - We put our people first and prioritize the well-being of every team member. We’ve built a company where all opinions carry weight and where all voices are heard. We value and respect each other and always look out for one another. Above all, we are human.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

What to expect in the hiring process

• Stage 3: Leadership and execution interview
• Stage 2: Technical and product interview
• Stage 1: A preliminary phone call with one of our recruiters.
• Stage 4: Culture interview.