Head, Quality Assurance & Testing Centre

Head, Quality Assurance & Testing Centre

About Us

Polaris Bank Limited is a Tier II Nigerian bank that was established by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on September 21, 2018 to offer commercial banking services. The bank commenced services on the same day, having purchased the assets, and assumed certain of the liabilities, of the defunct Skye Bank.

We cater to both individuals and corporate entities through carefully designed Retail, SME, Commercial, Corporate banking as well as products for Government MDAs. We also offer self-service/digital channels offerings leveraging technology to bring banking closer to the customer.

The Bank is a market leader in Revenue Collection, both in the public and private sectors, with collection mandates in about 30 of 36 states in Nigeria including Lagos State.

We are a key player in financial inclusion and are poised to take banking to the doorsteps of our customers; taking care of the banking needs of different categories of persons and businesses.

Polaris Bank enjoys significant brand loyalty from its diverse customer base across demographics, industries and sectors.

About the Role

The Head, Quality Assurance & Testing Centre ensures Polaris Bank’s software ships reliably, performs under load, and is free of critical defects and security vulnerabilities before reaching production. This role directs four testing disciplines — Functional, Automated, Performance, and Security Testing — through specialist leads and engineers.

Key Responsibilities

Functional Testing Oversight

• Ensure comprehensive functional, regression, and system integration testing across all releases
• Set test case design and defect tracking standards

Automated Testing Oversight

• Direct the build-out and maintenance of test automation frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines
• Drive toward the bank’s target automation coverage to enable faster, safer release cycles

Performance Testing Oversight

• Ensure systems are validated for performance, scalability, and load capacity before major releases
• Oversee performance monitoring practices that catch degradation before it affects customers

Security Testing Oversight

• Ensure security assessments, vulnerability scanning, and penetration testing are performed on all releases
• Escalate and track remediation of identified vulnerabilities in coordination with security architecture and engineering teams

Core Competencies

• Test strategy and quality leadership across manual, automated, performance, and security testing disciplines
• CI/CD-integrated automation practices
• Working knowledge of application security testing methodology (OWASP)
• Cross-functional coordination with engineering, architecture, and security teams

Familiarity With Tools (used by the function’s teams)

JIRA, TestRail, Zephyr; Selenium, Cypress, Appium, TestNG, JUnit, Postman, RestAssured, Jenkins, GitHub Actions; JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, BlazeMeter; Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Nessus, Snyk, Veracode

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field; ISTQB or equivalent certification an advantage
• Demonstrated track record leading QA/testing functions in a fast-release software environment, ideally banking or fintech