Quality Engineering Lead

About the Role

As a Quality Engineering Lead you will champion software quality across three key products (Closd, Jarvis, Case Law Analytics ), working closely with international teams located in France and South Africa. You will lead all quality efforts, from test strategy and tooling to hands-on coaching and process improvement. You will play a pivotal role in shaping a quality-first mindset, supporting both engineers and product teams in delivering robust, testable, and resilient software.

Responsibilities

• Owning and driving the overarching quality vision and strategy for our software products.

• Defining and continuously refining the quality roadmap with short-term and long-term objectives.

• Establishing and evolving quality standards, processes, and frameworks adapted to our tech stack (PHP back end, JavaScript front end using Angular and VueJS).

• Implementing performance tests to track the continuous improvement of our products.

• Coaching software engineers on writing meaningful unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, including what makes a test valuable, when to use each type of test, and how to approach test coverage pragmatically.

• Supporting the Product team in producing well-defined, testable user stories and acceptance criteria.

• Coordinating test writing across the team and lead test campaigns before major releases, working in cooperation with the Dev Ops team.

• Defining and tracking key quality metrics (test coverage, test reliability, regressions, escaped defects, etc.) and reporting regularly on quality trends, risks, and opportunities to leadership and stakeholders.

Requirements

• Must have extensive experience in Quality Test Engineering.

• Have a BS in Engineering/Computer Science degree or equivalent.

• Must have proven experience in quality engineering leadership roles, especially in cross-functional or agile teams.

• Have solid experience in automated testing frameworks, including Cypress.

• Have hands-on experience with unit, integration, E2E, and exploratory testing.

• Have demonstrated ability to guide software engineers and product managers on quality best practices.

• Have excellent communication, cross-team collaboration, and change management skills.

• Be familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, test environments, release workflows, and experience with PHP, VueJS, Angular, .NET is a plus.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working for you

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer

• Medical Aid

• Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)

• Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy

• Study Leave