Lead Quality Engineer

Summary

Join INSTANDA, a leading Insurtech company, as a Lead QE and help drive our growth. Reporting to the QA Manager, you will be a subject matter expert in testing, providing leadership at the scrum team level and across multiple projects. This fully remote role combines hands-on testing with leadership responsibilities, guiding testing practices across teams. You will collaborate with various stakeholders, analyze requirements, build test plans, monitor team progress, and mentor Quality Engineers. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience with modern test practices in an Agile context and strong communication and leadership skills. INSTANDA offers a competitive salary, generous vacation time, a discretionary bonus scheme, and learning & development opportunities.

Requirements

• Proven ability to lead in delivering Quality at a scrum team or project level
• Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders (other teams, vendors, suppliers, etc.)
• Strong team and stakeholder management skills
• Exceptional organisation and prioritisation skills with a passion for continuous improvement - we are a fast paced, agile environment
• Flexible, resilient, with a good commercial acumen coupled with a high degree of intellectual curiosity
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability

Responsibilities

• Ensuring that testing is being directed based on current needs, in line with the defined roadmap and working with QA Manager/s to ensure resourcing needs are anticipated
• Collaborating with Development Leads and other stakeholders to champion and guide the implementation of testing practices to support delivery within the project and teams
• Actively participating in all phases of software development lifecycles, getting hands-on to support testing activities across teams
• Collaborating with Business Analysts and Development teams to analyse requirements and build the appropriate plans and support the testing effort
• Monitoring, measuring and reporting on team progress while supporting your team/s to ensure their ability to deliver on their commitments and team objectives
• Applying and articulating extensive, practical experience with modern test practices within an Agile context to the test engineers and developers
• Understand INSTANDA’s features, functionality and intended use to effectively plan, design, and oversee testing activities
• Proactively supporting the QA Manager/s in driving continuous improvement with the training, tools and processes to support the QA Team and across the company
• Supporting Quality Engineers to build and maintain a positive, effective and efficient team, including coaching and mentoring
• Line management responsibilities for Quality Engineers
• Providing timely updates to the QA Manager on the progress of their projects, escalating concerns where required

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous exposure working with a SaaS product, in a high growth company or in the insurance industry
• Have a high level of proficiency in English

Benefits

• Competitive salary package
• Generous 28 vacation days , plus bank holidays
• One Dynamic Day per month on top of your holiday allowance to spend time doing the things you want to do or simply catching up with life admin
• All employees are included in the company discretionary bonus scheme
• Annual individual learning & development allowance
• Free access to LinkedIn learning and Microsoft ESI learning platforms
• INSTANDA partners with a local Employer of Record (EOR) entity to manage salary and benefits for our South Africa based employees. Benefits are country-specific but generally include life and critical illness coverage, pension and more