QE & Automation Team Lead

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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

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Entersekt

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51 - 200 employees

🔐 Security

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

💰 Venture Round on 2022-06

Security • Fintech • Banking

Entersekt is a global leader in authentication and fraud prevention solutions for the financial services sector. Their patented Context Aware™ Authentication technology positions them as an industry pioneer in providing secure and seamless digital banking and payment experiences. Entersekt's platform is integrated with multiple banking channels, offering 3-D Secure payments and regulatory compliance solutions to financial institutions, including banks and payment processors across the United States, Europe, and Africa. With a commitment to reducing fraud and friction in financial transactions, Entersekt delivers cutting-edge security measures to protect against threats while enhancing user experience.

📋 Description

• Own the technical design and day-to-day health of QE-owned API, web, mobile, integration, end-to-end and regression automation frameworks • Lead automation delivery across Java, Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven and Appium • Remain hands-on through architecture decisions, code reviews, complex test implementation and root-cause analysis of automation failures • Drive regression reliability through deterministic test data, stable setup and teardown, transparent quarantine rules and flaky-test reduction • Embed automation suites and quality evidence into GitLab CI/CD pipelines • Progress quality gates toward enforced automated controls where appropriate • Develop risk-based test strategies aligned to customer impact, architecture, regulatory obligations, scheme requirements, integration risk and production history • Produce evidence-based release assessments covering testing scope, automation outcomes, open defects, coverage limitations, residual risk and release recommendations • Maintain traceable, reproducible certification, compliance and audit evidence • Monitor and report regression health, risk coverage, defect escape rates, repeat incidents and automation reliability • Convert root-cause findings into quality improvements and corrective test coverage • Lead, mentor and develop Quality Engineers within the 3DS portfolio • Manage performance through continuous, actionable feedback and support capability development and capacity planning • Coach Development and Product teams on shift-left quality practices • Reinforce developer ownership of unit, component and feature-functional testing • Partner with Agile Delivery Leads, Scrum Masters, Platform and DevOps teams on readiness, dependencies, environments, test data and observability • Resolve quality concerns with accountable stakeholders and escalate when risks exceed agreed tolerances • Establish and maintain a quality baseline • Improve test automation maturity, regression effectiveness and engineering quality practices • Reduce defect escape rates, repeat incidents and unnecessary escalations • Increase early engagement across QE, Development, Product and Delivery teams • Drive measurable quality improvements throughout the product lifecycle

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of software quality engineering and test automation experience • Demonstrated technical leadership of automation frameworks or complex testing solutions • Strong Java knowledge and object-oriented design expertise • Significant hands-on experience with Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven and Appium, or equivalent technologies with the ability to become effective quickly • Experience designing API, web, mobile, integration and end-to-end automation solutions for distributed service-based systems • Strong CI/CD and GitLab pipeline experience, including parallelisation, automated quality gates, reporting and visibility, and failure diagnosis and troubleshooting • Experience treating flaky tests, test data challenges and environment stability as engineering reliability problems • Strong risk management judgement and experience creating risk-based test strategies and release assessments • Experience leading, mentoring and developing engineering teams • Performance management, coaching and capacity planning experience • Working knowledge of AI-assisted software engineering for test design, code generation, maintenance and failure analysis • Demonstrated ability to critically evaluate AI-generated outputs and deliver measurable value from AI-enabled practices • Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking skills • Clear and effective communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders • Ability to work independently and take ownership • Collaborative, pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset • Strong attention to quality, security and maintainability

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible hours • Remote work • Plenty of growth opportunities • Exposure to cutting-edge technology • Collaboration with colleagues who are leaders in their fields • Awesome working environment