Manager, Quality Assurance - Lagos

Job summary

The Manager: Quality Assurance plays a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of digital applications across the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute test cases for mobile apps, web apps, APIs, and backend systems.
• Perform functional, regression, UI/UX, automation, and performance testing.
• Log, track, and verify defects to closure, collaborating with developers and DevOps teams.
• Contribute to test planning, review boards, and sprint-based test case refinement.
• Ensure test documentation is complete and aligns with traceability requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field mandatory.
• Additional training or coursework in software testing or automation is beneficial.
• Professional Certifications preferred/required: ISTQB Foundation Level required, Selenium, Appium, Cypress, or Agile Testing certifications advantageous.

Experience

• 4 –6 years' experience in manual, performance, and automated testing.
• Hands-on experience testing mobile apps, web portals, and APIs.
• Proven experience validating Java-based backend APIs, business logic, data integrity, and integration points.
• Exposure to cloud-based environments e.g., Azure and hybrid/DR-ready setups.
• Familiarity with CI/CD-integrated testing pipelines and version control platforms Git, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Technical Skills

• Testing & Automation Frameworks: Selenium, Playwright, Appium, JMeter, Katalon, Cypress.
• CI/CD & Test Integration: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, SonarQube, Allure, GitHub Actions.
• Mobile & API Testing: Firebase Test Lab, App Center, Swagger/Postman.
• Test Data & Environment Management: Wire Mock or equivalent middleware for mocking endpoints.

Core Skills & Competencies

• Strong attention to detail, communication skills, and ownership of test outcomes.
• Ability to balance manual and automated testing while ensuring release quality and regression coverage.
• Skilled in collaboration across development, product, DevOps, and QA teams.
• Proactive mindset with focus on early defect detection, quality governance, and continuous improvement.

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