Quality Assurance (QA) Lead

About the Role

Paystack is transforming online payments across Africa, building the critical financial infrastructure that powers thousands of businesses from Lagos to Nairobi. The Quality Engineering team is the standard-bearer and expert on how end-to-end tests are run across our entire platform. As our QA Lead, you will drive our overall quality and automation strategy, leading a talented team of engineers while balancing hands-on technical leadership with people management to ensure world-class transaction reliability.

• Own and drive the overall quality and test automation strategy across the Paystack platform.
• Lead, mentor, and coach a high-calibre team of QA and automation engineers.
• Set standards for test architecture, frameworks, and test data management across all products.
• Partner with product and engineering leadership to embed testing early in the development lifecycle.
• Increase quality visibility by reporting on coverage, pipeline health, blockers, and impact to stakeholders.
• Integrate AI tools to automate workflows and enhance testing efficiency across the engineering organization.

• Extensive experience using modern test automation tools across web, mobile, and APIs.
• Proven track record of defining and executing QA strategies at scale.
• Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, and growing engineering teams.
• Familiarity with CI/CD gating, performance testing, observability, and high-scale fintech domains.
• Strong interpersonal, project management, and written communication skills.

• Competitive salary and comprehensive health insurance coverage.
• Opportunities for professional growth and continuous learning within Africa's leading fintech.
• Collaborative, inclusive, and fast-paced engineering work culture.

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