Quality Assurance (QA) Lead

About the Role

The Quality Engineering team is the standard-bearer and expert on how end-to-end tests are run across the Paystack platform.

We design and maintain the infrastructure and tooling for repeatable, reliable testing; ensure essential use cases across all channels API, Dashboard, mobile, POS) are covered; and act as consultants and enablers who help every engineering team test effectively.

As QA Lead, you will be the driving force behind our overall quality and automation strategy. You will lead a small, high-calibre team of QA and automation engineers, set the direction for how we test across the platform, and make sure the right tests, tooling, and environments are in place and running reliably.

You will balance hands-on technical leadership with people leadership, and work closely with engineering leaders to align quality goals with the broader engineering roadmap. This is a full-time position.

We’ll trust you to

Own and drive the overall quality and test automation strategy across the platform

Ensure the appropriate tests, tooling, infrastructure, and environments are in place and running reliably

Set standards for test architecture, frameworks, and test data management, and review them across products

Lead, mentor, and coach a team of QA and automation engineers, including regular 11s, hiring, and onboarding

Align the team's goals with overall engineering goals and prioritise work accordingly

Increase the visibility of quality by reporting on coverage, pipeline health, blockers, and impact to stakeholders

Partner with product and engineering leadership to embed testing earlier in the development lifecycle

Act as a consultant and enabler, giving teams the guidance they need to implement effective end-to-end testing

Represent Quality Engineering in cross-functional planning and technical design reviews

You’ll thrive in this role if you have

Extensive experience using modern test automation tools across web, mobile, and APIs

A track record of driving a QA and automation strategy at scale

Experience leading, mentoring, and growing QA and automation engineering teams

Strong interpersonal, project management, and organizational skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

The ability to articulate and drive sustainable processes

Sound judgement on where to invest testing effort for the greatest reliability and business impact

Experience in payments, fintech, or other high-reliability, high-scale domains

Familiarity with CI/CD gating, performance testing, and observability

Experience using AI to automate workflows and complete tasks more efficiently, and a habit of encouraging the team to apply AI wherever it can add value to how we work.

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Minimum qualifications

BA/BSc/HND

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