QA Domain Lead: Automation & Quality Strategy

Absa Group; Randburg; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Absa Bank Limited is seeking a senior Quality Engineering leader to own the strategy and practice for Digital Business Bank, focusing on automation, early assurance and measurable customer and production quality. You will define standards, tooling, governance and a roadmap to enable teams to release secure, reliable digital services rapidly.

You will lead the establishment of reusable automation frameworks, test-data approaches and service virtualisation, embedding tests into CI/CD with fast

Qualifications

• 8-12+ years in Quality Engineering, QA, or software testing.
• Proven leadership of Quality Engineering or QA teams across multiple digital products.
• Experience implementing automated testing at scale within CI/CD and DevSecOps environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the quality engineering strategy and practice with emphasis on automation, early assurance and measurable production quality.
• Enable teams to release secure, reliable and accessible digital services at pace.
• Establish reusable automation frameworks, test-data approaches, service virtualisation, environments and tooling.
• Embed automated tests and quality controls into CI/CD with fast feedback and governance evidence.
• Drive shift-left defect prevention and shift-right validation using telemetry and production learning.

Skills

Quality Engineering

Automation

QA Leadership

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS

Tools

Test automation frameworks

API testing tools

Job description

Absa Bank Limited is seeking a senior Quality Engineering leader to own the strategy and practice for Digital Business Bank, focusing on automation, early assurance and measurable customer and production quality. You will define standards, tooling, governance and a roadmap to enable teams to release secure, reliable digital services rapidly.

You will lead the establishment of reusable automation frameworks, test-data approaches and service virtualisation, embedding tests into CI/CD with fast