Lead QA Engineer

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Nairobi
Senior level
Information Technology • Software • Cybersecurity
The Role
As a Lead QA Engineer, you'll ensure product quality through designing testing frameworks, mentoring the QA team, and collaborating on release strategies.
Summary Generated by Built In

At Vyntra, we help financial institutions across the world fight fraud, prevent money laundering, and gain full visibility of every transaction. Our AI-powered platform combines advanced fraud detection with large-scale transactional data observability, giving banks the tools to build trust and stay compliant.

As our Lead QA Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability and quality of these mission-driven solutions. You’ll join the product development team that builds and optimizes our flagship platform—enterprise-grade technology powering some of the world’s leading financial institutions. We solve complex engineering challenges through smart, scalable design, and you will be central in embedding quality at every stage of development.

In this role, you will own product quality end-to-end: designing and driving a robust testing framework, enabling our Scrum teams to deliver stable, high-performing releases, and making sure that every customer can rely on Vyntra’s solutions to protect them against financial crime.

What you’ll do

  • Lead and mentor the QA team, fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement

  • Define and implement an integrated testing strategy covering multiple, complex product components

  • Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and platform engineering to ensure smooth, high-quality releases

  • Champion test automation and CI/CD integration for faster, safer delivery

  • Monitor, analyze, and continuously improve test coverage and defect detection

What you bring

  • Proven experience leading QA teams in a product development environment

  • Strong background in designing testing strategies for complex, integrated systems

  • Solid technical and testing expertise, ideally including:

    • Java (required)

    • Selenium (plus)

    • API testing (plus)

    • Elastic, MQ, or Kafka (plus)

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a solution-oriented mindset

  • Product-minded, with an eye for detail and a commitment to delivering exceptional quality

  • Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments

  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work in distributed, international teams

    Top Skills

    Api Testing
    Elastic
    Java
    Kafka
    Mq
    Selenium
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    The Company
    HQ: Yverdon
    127 Employees

    What We Do

    Vyntra is a global leader in transaction intelligence, formed from the merger of NetGuardians and Intix. Combining deep expertise in financial crime prevention and transaction data management, Vyntra equips over 130 financial institutions in 60+ countries with intelligent tools to detect fraud, ensure AML compliance, and gain real-time visibility into every transaction. Operating across Transaction Data Intelligence and Financial Crime Prevention, Vyntra helps banks drive transparency, resilience, and trust.

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