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Quality Assurance Lead

  • Cape Town
  • Salary: Market Related
  • Job Type: Permanent
  • Sectors: Technology Health Fitness & Beauty
  • Reference: 184624

Apply before May 27 2026 | 15 Days left

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Vacancy Details

Employer: Virgin Active South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Your Purpose...
  • Is to “change people’s lives for the better through wellness”;
  • We deliver social wellness experiences that enable people to meet their personal wellness goals, through holistic physical, mental nutritional and social wellbeing.
  • As we transform into a Social Wellness Club, we’re redefining how we approach technology by building globally scalable solutions. A key part of this transformation is consolidating our core member engagement platform (our Mobile App and related services) under a central team. This team will own a unified codebase, enabling faster, more consistent feature rollouts across multiple countries. This same quality mindset must extend across our backend services, integrations, and supporting digital platforms.
  • We’re looking for a Quality Assurance Lead to define, drive, and continuously improve quality engineering practices across our mobile applications, backend services, APIs, and integration platforms. You’ll be a hands-on technical leader, responsible for shaping test strategy, building and maintaining automated test coverage, improving release confidence, and embedding quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Working closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Engineering Leads, Designers, and Operations, you’ll help the team deliver high-quality, reliable, and scalable software across member-facing and internal platforms. You’ll combine strategic quality leadership with hands-on technical execution, using automation, observability, and production quality insights to reduce defects, increase delivery confidence, and improve the end-to-end customer experience.
  • This role spans both mobile and integration/backend teams, with responsibility for quality across feature development, API and end-to-end automation, visual regression, cloud-based device/browser testing, release readiness, defect prevention, and production issue feedback loops.


Your Duties and Responsibilities...

Technical Execution

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks and suites across UI, API, integration, and end-to-end testing layers.
  • Drive end-to-end automation across critical user journeys using appropriate automation frameworks and tooling for web and/or mobile platforms.
  • Use browser, device, and mobile app testing platforms to enable reliable cloud-based testing across environments where appropriate.
  • Implement and maintain visual regression coverage to detect unintended UI changes and improve release confidence.
  • Use reporting and quality insight tooling to improve test result visibility, reporting quality, and actionable insight across test runs and release cycles.
  • Contribute to API and service-level quality through strong automated testing practices for backend services and integrations.
  • Help define and implement API test strategies, service contract validation, integration test coverage, and non-functional quality checks where appropriate.
  • Collaborate with engineers to improve testability, automation hooks, environment stability, and CI/CD pipeline quality gates.
  • Troubleshoot test failures, flaky tests, environment issues, and release blockers, driving practical solutions that improve team confidence and speed.
  • Support test data management, test environment readiness, and automation reliability across multiple systems and platforms.

Operational Excellence

  • Own quality visibility across delivery and production by incorporating monitoring, observability, crash reporting, and defect signals into test strategy, release decisions, and continuous improvement.
  • Use production incidents, crash data, performance issues, and defect trends to refine test coverage and improve prevention of repeat issues.
  • Support release validation, regression planning, defect triage, root cause analysis, and post-release quality reviews.
  • Identify and drive improvements in release quality, defect leakage, test execution speed, and automation effectiveness.
  • Establish measurable quality metrics, dashboards, and reporting that provide clear insight into quality health, risk, and delivery readiness.
  • Balance delivery speed with quality, maintainability, and appropriate test coverage by applying sound judgment and risk-based decision-making.

Our Minimum Requirements...

We can’t live without…

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 8+ years of professional experience in software quality assurance / quality engineering, with strong hands-on experience leading quality practices across modern engineering teams.
  • Proven experience operating as a hands-on QA Lead or senior quality engineering leader across both frontend/mobile and backend/integration environments.
  • Strong experience designing and implementing automated testing strategies across UI, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing layers.
  • Strong hands-on experience with end-to-end test automation frameworks and approaches for validating critical user journeys across web and/or mobile platforms.
  • Experience with cloud-based browser, device, and/or mobile application testing platforms to support broad test coverage across environments.
  • Experience with visual regression testing practices and tooling to detect unintended UI changes and improve release confidence.
  • Experience with test reporting, test result visibility, and quality metrics frameworks that improve insight into test execution and release readiness.
  • Strong understanding of API testing, backend/service validation, and integration testing approaches across distributed systems.
  • Experience working with observability, monitoring, and production issue signals to improve test coverage, release decision-making, and quality outcomes.
  • Strong knowledge of software delivery practices including CI/CD pipelines, test automation in build pipelines, release validation, and defect management.
  • Strong understanding of SDLC quality ownership, including test strategy, shift-left testing, release readiness, production validation, and continuous improvement.
  • Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify risk early and drive practical quality improvements.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence engineers, product teams, and leadership on quality-related decisions.
  • Proven ability to work effectively as a senior hands-on individual contributor while leading quality standards and ways of working across multiple teams.
  • Experience with tools such as WebDriver or similar for end-to-end test automation.
  • Experience with platforms such as BrowserStack or similar for cloud-based browser, device, and mobile app testing.
  • Experience with tools such as Percy or similar for visual regression testing.
  • Experience with Allure or similar reporting frameworks to improve test visibility, reporting, and release insight.
  • Experience with tools such as New Relic, Sentry, or similar observability / monitoring platforms to incorporate production quality signals into testing and release practices.
  • Experience testing mobile applications across Android and iOS ecosystems.
  • Experience testing backend integrations, APIs, third-party services, and event-driven / distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with performance, reliability, and non-functional testing practices.
  • Experience improving test automation frameworks, test architecture, or engineering quality tooling at team or department level.
  • Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery frameworks and quality practices in product-led engineering teams.
  • Experience in consumer-facing digital products, subscription products, wellness, lifestyle, or marketplace platforms.
  • Exposure to modern cloud environments, DevOps practices, and engineering observability patterns.

 

Core Interpersonal Skills:

  • Emotional Intelligence- proven ability to anticipate the needs of others before they are voiced
  • Active Listening- Able to genuinely hear concerns with the ability to defuse tense situations and ensuring members and staff feel heard and valued
  • Cultural Awareness and Fluency- understand international norms, etiquette and diverse backgrounds to provide a welcoming environment for our international and VIP members
  • Empathy – be able to understand, or and be aware of, someone else’s feelings especially during stressful situations, such as travel delays or billing disputes

 

Operational & leadership Skills Required:

  • Attention to Detail, noticing the small things
  • Resilience and Composure, be able to remain calm and optimistic under extreme pressure, during peak or periods or system failures
  • Problem solving and conflict resolution – be able to turn challenges into opportunities by thinking and acting quickly to resolve issues before they impact a member’s experience
  • Adaptability: be flexible to handle unpredictable shifts in processers, resource changes, last minute VIP guest arrivals, or sudden changes in event plans.
  • Relatability – the capacity to connect with diverse stakeholders across all backgrounds
  • Situational Awareness – constantly monitoring the environment to identify members who need support or help
  • Curiosity- the ability to seek out and transform standard transactions into personalised stories and memorable experiences
  • Time Management – the ability to efficiently meet stringent deadlines while maintaining a relaxed and unhurried demeanor for guests.
  • Digital Fluency – must be proficient in new age technology and systems


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