Qa Lead

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Job Description

Job Classification
Req: 142349
Closing date: 21 October 2025
Job Family
Informaton Technology
Career Stream
IT Operations
Leadership Pipeline
Manager of Others
Job Purpose
To Lead Quality Engineering in squads in accordance with the agreed Test Engineering & Quality practices. Ensure alignment across stakeholders to optimise the testing efficiencies across the Product delivery stack. Ensure team effectiveness and healthy team dynamics.
Job Responsibilities

  • Liaise with Stakeholders across Group Technology to build a network that will align to nWoW
  • Ensure stable solutions to stakeholders by delivering automated testing solutions and quality practices within agreed time lines and within agreed risk parameters
  • Provide advice to clients on quality practices
  • Build and foster deep relationship with Peers, Subject Matter Experts, Developers, Product Owner and other Stakeholders though honest communication which align to the Nedbank Values
  • Build a deep understanding of the domain in order to contribute to the ongoing value proposition
  • Work closely with Quality Assurance Leads, Practise Leads, Developers, Architects, Product Owner and other Stakeholders to meet the expectations of our clients
  • Participate in the overall PI planning and the squad deliverables including capacity estimation and interdependencies
  • Obtain and review relevant artefacts from stakeholders (eg: technical landscape, architecture design, technology roadmaps)
  • Create the Test Strategy, approach or plan and ensure alignment to the squad objectives
  • Contribute to the systematic breakdown of the business needs into manageable feature(s), stories and epics that can be delivered
  • Ensure all committed user stories and acceptance criteria are tested for the specific release ensuring quality is not compromised
  • Participate in the backlog grooming and in the sprint planning
  • Participate in the daily stand-up where necessary, manage the issues raised by the Software Quality & Test Engineers and raise relevant associated risks
  • Encourage the Software Quality & Test Engineers to collaborate across squads to ensure efficient implementation of deliverables and ensure automation governance is adhered to by all
  • Perform pull requests and ensure all feature branches are committed to Master
  • Review that the test automation solution meets the architectural and development standards that are re-usable and scalable
  • Challenging the business and technology solutions in alignment with client value proposition
  • Ensure integration into and continuous test automation execution on DevOps pipelines
  • Work with the Enterprise Quality Assurance Practise Lead on the metrics and reporting to communicate quality engineering practices
  • Ensure the defect management process is adhered to by the Software Quality & Test Engineers
  • Ensure artefacts are easy obtainable by storing all relevant artefacts in the repository
  • Participate in the retrospective reviews and seek efficiencies which will ensure quicker delivery with high quality to our client(s)
  • Encourage Peer reviews of the QA artefacts
  • Understand and manage own demand based on expected timelines articulated by the line-management and project expectations
Job Responsibilities Continue
  • Collaborate with Peers and industry experts to understand technical advances and its application within the Nedbank eco-system
  • Seek ongoing improvements in technical capabilities
  • Ensure alignment of solution with emerging technologies and impact on Nedbank technologies
  • Mentor the Engineers within the team to improve their technical capabilities
  • Provide input into the documentation of standards & quality practices for Quality engineering for the organisation's current and future technological architecture
  • Provide input into performance management of team members (e.g. performance contracts, development plans, poor performance and improvement plans, and review)
  • Ensure the team dynamics are healthy (coaching and mentoring, assist with decision making, encourage self-organisation and assist with prioritisation)
  • Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values
  • Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations
  • Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
  • Professional Qualifications/Honour's Degree
Preferred Qualification
BSc IT or BComm IT or similar
Preferred Certifications
ISTQB Agile Foundation. ISTQB Advanced certification (preferred). Bootcamp training in Agile & DevOps.
Minimum Experience Level
Total number of years of experience:7 - 10 years
Management experience as part of the above years:1 - 2 years
Type of experience:Experience in Agile delivery and exposure to Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development in a continuous delivery model. Test analysis & design experience. 4 years Test automation experience. 1-3 years Development experience. Ability to understand and interpret logical solution architecture. Understanding & implementation of DevOps pipelines & tools.
Technical / Professional Knowledge
  • Ability to understand and interpret logical solution architecture
  • Use of testing tools and frameworks (E.g. Selenium, Appium, RestAssured, Karate, Jira, JMeter)
  • Experience of implementing QA solutions within a continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline
  • Object-orientated Programming (OOP)
  • Development languages; C#, Java
  • Mobile Test Automation
  • Soap and RESTFUL services
  • Service virtualisation & Data virtualisation
  • Vulnerability testing
  • Performance and load testing
Behavioural Competencies
  • Adaptability
  • Decision Making
  • Emotional Intelligence Essentials
  • Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
  • Influencing
  • Quality Orientation
  • Planning and Organizing
  • High-Impact Communication

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD1556258
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
  • Education
    Not mentioned