Head of Quality Assurance at Crown Interactive

Posted on Mon 15th Jun, 2026 - www.hotnigerianjobs.com --- (0 comments)

Crown Interactive delivers innovative, cost-effective, service aggregation solutions to the Telecom, Media and Technology-based sectors. Starting in 2005, this London-based business has gained ground-breaking expertise integrating business systems with evolving information technology.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Quality Assurance

Location: Lagos

Key Roles and Responsibilities
Quality Strategy and Governance:

  • Develop and execute the organization's Quality Assurance strategy, roadmap, and operational plans.
  • Establish quality standards, testing methodologies, frameworks, and best practices across all products and projects.
  • Define and monitor quality metrics, KPIs, and reporting mechanisms.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance product quality and team efficiency.
  • Ensure adherence to organizational quality policies, standards, and procedures.

Test Planning and Execution:

  • Oversee the planning, design, execution, and reporting of software testing activities.
  • Develop comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and test cases for all products and releases.
  • Ensure functional, integration, regression, performance, usability,accessibility, and security testing are effectively conducted.
  • Review and approve test results and release readiness reports.
  • Ensure timely defect identification, tracking, prioritization, and resolution.

Test Automation and Quality Engineering:

  • Lead the implementation and expansion of automated testing frameworks and tools.
  • Establish automation standards to improve testing efficiency and coverage.
  • Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Drive adoption of modern Quality Engineering practices and shift-left testing approaches.
  • Continuously improve test automation coverage and effectiveness.

Product Quality and Release Management:

  • Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering Teams, Project
  • Managers, and DevOps teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, product reviews, and release planning activities.
  • Ensure software releases meet quality, security, and performance requirements before deployment.
  • Monitor production environments and conduct root cause analysis for quality-related incidents.

Compliance, Security and Risk Management:

  • Ensure products comply with relevant government, industry, regulatory, and data protection requirements.
  • Oversee quality controls for GovTech platforms handling sensitive citizen and government data.
  • Collaborate with Information Security teams to perform security testing and vulnerability assessments.
  • Support internal and external audits, compliance reviews, and certification initiatives.
  • Identify and mitigate quality risks across projects and products.

Stakeholder Management:

  • Partner with business units, customers, government agencies, and project stakeholders to understand quality expectations.
  • Provide regular quality performance reports and recommendations to executive leadership.
  • Communicate quality risks, testing outcomes, and improvement opportunities effectively.
  • Support customer escalations and critical issue resolution.

Leadership and Team Management:

  • Lead, mentor, and develop QA Engineers, Test Analysts, Automation
  • Engineers, and Quality Leads.
  • Set performance objectives and conduct regular performance reviews.
  • Identify training and development needs within the QA team.
  • Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
  • Build and maintain a high-performing quality assurance function.

Experience and Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related field.
  • A minimum of 7 years hands on experience in QA.
  • Master's Degree is an added advantage.
  • ISTQB Advanced Level Certification.
  • Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA).
  • Certified Agile Tester (CAT).
  • Scrum Master or Agile-related certifications.
  • ISO 9001 Lead Auditor certification (advantageous).

Required Skills and Competencies:

  • Test Automation Frameworks.
  • API Testing.
  • Performance and Load Testing.
  • Security Testing.
  • CI/CD and DevOps Practices.
  • Quality Management Systems.
  • Defect Management and Root Cause Analysis.
  • Agile and Scrum Methodologies.
  • Test Management Tools (JIRA, Azure DevOps, TestRail, Zephyr, etc.).
  • Automation Tools (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium, Postman, JMeter, etc.).

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their application and CV to: careers@crowninterative.com or recruitment@cicod.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.