Head of Quality Assurance

3 weeks ago

Pretoria, South Africa Optim-G Sourcing Full time

This role requires a seasoned leader who will transition the organization from reactive testing to proactive quality engineering and assurance. You will embed a culture of qualityownership across the entire Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), ensuring our high volume, mission-critical financial systems maintain flawless reliability and strict adherenceto global payment standards (Visa/Mastercard) and financial regulatory compliance.Qualifications and Requirements: Minimum of 10 years of experience in Quality Assurance or Quality Engineering, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership or Head of QA role, managing small to medium-sized teams (10+). Domain Expertise (Non-Negotiable): Deep, demonstrable experience within the FinTech, Banking, Payment Processing, or Card Services sector is essential.Education: Tertiary education in relevant field, Computer Science, Software Engineering. Industry recognized certifications e.g ISTQB Advanced level, SAFE, ITILTechnical Acumen:Expert knowledge of QA principles, methodologies, and modern automation tools (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman/RestAssured ). Strong grasp of complex, distributed, and cloud-based system architectures.Regulatory Knowledge: Proven familiarity with relevant financial service regulations, including local South African requirements and global payment scheme mandates (e.g., PCI DSS).Soft Skills: Exceptional leadership, communication, analytical, and critical thinking skills, with a proven ability to manage stakeholders and drive innovation and cultural change.Key Responsibilities: Strategy, Leadership, and Center of ExcellenceTechnical & Operational Excellence - Automation Architecture, CI/CD pipeline Integration, Technical oversight - ensure teams maintain strong technical proficiency in tools, languages, (e.g SQL, C# OOP) and methodologies required to test complex, distributed service -orientated (microservices) and Cloud-based architectures.Financial Domain, Risk, and Compliance

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