- Company: Paystack
- Location: Lagos (Hybrid)
- Job type: Full-time
- Salary: Competitive compensation package and benefits
- Deadline: Not specified
About the role
Paystack is a technology company helping merchants in Africa get paid by anyone, anywhere in the world. As the 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 ensure the right tests, tooling, and environments are in place and running reliably. This is a full-time position.
Responsibilities
- 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 1:1s, 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.
Requirements
- 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.
How to apply
Interested and qualified candidates should click here to apply online.
