Head of Quality Assurance

Summary

Join Moniepoint, a rapidly growing financial services platform in Africa, as the Head of Quality Assurance. This leadership role involves driving the QA strategy, execution, and culture across engineering teams. You will lead and mentor a team of QA analysts and engineers, ensuring high-quality and reliable products. Collaborate with developers, product managers, and engineering leadership to guarantee production-ready releases. Responsibilities include designing test strategies, building performance dashboards, and promoting a strong quality culture. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience leading QA teams in fast-paced environments and a deep understanding of software development.

Requirements

• 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
• 4-5 years of leading engineering teams with a proven track record of building and scaling high-performance 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Attractive salary
• Pension
• Health insurance
• Paid leave
• Other benefits