QA Lead

Nedbank Private Wealth; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Nedbank Private Wealth seeks a QA Lead to drive quality engineering across squads, aligning testing practices with product delivery goals. You will oversee automation, risk-aware delivery, and stakeholder collaboration to ensure high-quality releases.

With 7–10 years in IT and leadership exposure, you’ll mentor engineers, contribute to architecture decisions, and ensure CI/CD governance and robust test strategies within Nedbank's technology ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Professional qualifications in IT or related field.
• 7–10 years of overall experience in IT with leadership exposure.
• Experience in Agile delivery, TDD/BDD, and CI/CD environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead Quality Engineering across squads, aligning with test practices.
• Deliver automated testing solutions within timelines and risk parameters.
• Advise clients on quality practices and engage stakeholders effectively.
• Mentor engineers and ensure healthy team dynamics and collaboration.
• Contribute to PI planning, backlog grooming, and sprint planning.
• Ensure test strategy alignment with squad objectives and architecture.
• Oversee test automation across DevOps pipelines and governance.
• Review artefacts and ensure reusable, scalable testing solutions.
• Monitor metrics and provide QA governance across projects.
• Support continuous improvement of QA practices and processes.

Skills

QA Leadership

Test Automation

DevOps pipelines

Selenium

Java

C#

Test design

CI/CD

Education

Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree

BSc IT or BComm IT or similar

Tools

ISTQB Agile Foundation

ISTQB Advanced certification

Agile & DevOps bootcamp

Job description

Job Classification

QA Lead (146747)

Closing date: 2 August 2026

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