QA Manager

Takealot.com, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented QA Manager (Merchant) to join our team. 

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

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The position reports to the QA Director. 

Your mission should you choose to accept it:     

• Lead and provide strategic oversight to multiple QA teams across diverse products and stakeholders, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
• Foster seamless coordination and robust communication channels among QA teams and various product stakeholders to build a cohesive quality assurance strategy.
• Cultivate a self-sustaining environment where teams are empowered to make autonomous decisions, thereby allowing you to dedicate efforts towards strategic enhancements and innovation in the QA domain.
• Engage actively in QA processes to garner insights and drive technical advancements, leveraging firsthand experience and hand-on involvement to refine processes and develop strategic initiatives.
• Build and nurture strategic alliances with product teams within and across divisions to synchronise QA goals with broader business strategies.
• Contribute to the Community of Practice for Quality Assurance within the engineering landscape to share knowledge and best practices.
• Spearhead recruitment efforts to attract top talent for the QA team, ensuring a robust and competent workforce.
• Elevate development quality by formulating and instituting superior testing processes and practices in collaboration with engineers and engineering managers.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to architect and manage an integrated roadmap for automation initiatives, with a focus on enhancing efficiency and coverage.
  Play a pivotal role in refining the automation strategy and expanding automation coverage for both UI and service-based tests.
• Ensure teams continuously develop, execute and maintain comprehensive test cases to identify and address bugs, aligned with best practices and strategic objectives.
• Oversee the creation and maintenance of sustainable and reusable test data, ensuring data integrity and efficiency.
• Proactively identify testing gaps and lead the collaborative resolution process with automation engineers, engineers, and QA Analysts.