Lead, Quality Assurance
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Job Overview
Location
Remote
Employment Type
Full-time
Work Arrangement
Remote
Sector
Information Technology & Software
Experience Level
Executive (12+ years)
About the Company
Moniepoint is a rapidly growing all-in-one financial services platform designed for emerging markets, recognized as the second-fastest growing company in Africa. Since 2019, Moniepoint has empowered over 3 million individuals with essential financial tools, including personal and business banking, payment solutions, credit, and business management capabilities. The company processes a substantial volume of transactions, handling the majority of POS transactions in Nigeria. Moniepoint is committed to fostering a culture of innovation, teamwork, and growth, creating an environment where employees are valued and encouraged to contribute their best work.
Job Description
Moniepoint is seeking an experienced Lead, Quality Assurance to spearhead our quality initiatives from our remote Lagos, Nigeria office. This is a critical leadership role where you will own and drive the strategy, execution, and culture of Quality Assurance across our diverse engineering teams. You will lead a team of talented QA Analysts and Engineers, ensuring that the products we develop consistently meet the highest standards of quality and reliability. By collaborating closely with developers, product managers, and engineering leadership, you will ensure every product shipped is production-ready and contributes to user satisfaction.
Your responsibilities will include leading the QA function across multiple engineering teams, driving scalable quality standards, strategies, and frameworks. You will mentor and manage QA Analysts and Engineers, fostering their growth through coaching and career development. Designing and enforcing comprehensive test strategies, encompassing manual and automated testing, regression, performance, and exploratory testing, will be a core part of your role. You will build meaningful dashboards and metrics to measure QA performance, such as test cases written and executed, bug leakage, and regression rates. Close collaboration with engineers will be essential, serving as a gatekeeper of quality by reviewing product requirements, technical documentation, and code. You will drive continuous improvement in QA processes, tools, and team dynamics, ensuring deep product understanding within the QA team to create relevant and user-centric test cases. Promoting a strong quality culture by working hand-in-hand with engineering, product, and business stakeholders is paramount. You will transform test metrics into insightful dashboards and reports that guide team performance and product health.
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Required Skills
Key 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.
Qualifications
- 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.
- 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.
- Strong programming skills in Java with a focus on tooling and automation.
- Strong experience in testing APIs, microservices, mobile native, and web applications.
- Proficiency in working with Linux/Unix environments and cloud infrastructure (GCP, Docker).
- Strong knowledge of SQL, NoSQL databases, and pub-sub technologies.
- Experience in non-functional testing, including performance, security, and monitoring/alerting.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins / GitHub Actions / Harness).
- Familiarity with AI/ML-based test generation or test impact analysis.
- Strong experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies and leading small-to-medium 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.
Benefits & Perks
- Attractive salary and pension.
- Comprehensive health insurance.
- Paid leave.
- A culture that prioritizes people and well-being.
- An environment focused on learning and development, including knowledge sharing and internal technical talks.
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge financial technology.
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<p>As the Lead for Quality Assurance, you will be instrumental in defining and executing the quality strategy across our engineering teams. This leadership role involves managing and mentoring a team of QA Analysts and Engineers, ensuring our products meet the highest standards of quality and reliability. You will collaborate closely with development and product teams to guarantee that all shipped products are production-ready and deliver exceptional user experiences, driving the overall quality culture within the organization.</p>
Posted Date
February 24, 2026
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