Test Team Lead

Cape Town, South Africa Posted on 03/05/2026

The Test Team Lead is responsible for end to end qualityassurance and test leadership across the WMS and eCommerce portfolios,with a strong focus on release confidence, automation maturity, and peak eventreadiness (e.g. Black Friday).

This role leads test delivery using Azure DevOps (ADO) and Playwright, ensuring high risk customer and operational journeys arethoroughly validated, automated where possible, and production ready under peakload conditions.

• Manages: Test Analysts / Test Automation Engineers
• KeyInterfaces:
• DevOps& Platform teams
• WarehouseOperations & Supply Chain
• Business& UAT stakeholders
• Third partyvendors and integration partners

• Defineand own the test strategy for WMS and eCommerce, aligned to Agiledelivery.
• Establish risk based testing aligned to business impact and peak eventpriorities.
• Own testgovernance including:
• Testplans and estimates
• Entry/exitcriteria
• Defectseverity models
• Releasereadiness and go/no go recommendations
• Provideclear quality reporting using ADO dashboards and metrics.

• Leadtest planning and execution across multiple squads and releases.
• Ensurecoverage for:
• Functionaland exploratory testing
• SystemIntegration Testing (SIT)
• Regressiontesting (manual + automated)
• Coordinate test environments, data, and dependencies.
• Ownthe defect lifecycle in ADO:
• Triage,prioritisation, RCA coordination
• Verificationand closure
• Productiondefect analysis and prevention
• Ownand evolve the Playwright automation strategy.
• Ensure:
• Criticalcustomer and operational journeys are automated
• Automationis stable, maintainable, and trusted
• Automatedtests are integrated into ADO CI/CD pipelines
• Drive:
• Reviewautomation coverage and execution results as part of release readiness.

• Lead test planning and execution for peak events, including BlackFriday.
• Ensurereadiness for:
• High volumetraffic and order throughput
• Promotionand pricing accuracy
• Payment,fraud, and checkout stability
• Fulfilmentcapacity and WMS throughput
• Coordinate:
• Performanceand load testing (with engineering/DevOps)
• Dressrehearsals and pre peak regression runs
• Defectwar rooms and rapid triage during peak periods
• Support hypercare and post event quality reviews.

• Coordinateand assure coverage for:
• Performance,scalability, and resilience
• Integrationreliability and error handling
• Monitoring,logging, and alert validation
• Ensuretest scenarios reflect real warehouse and customer behaviour.
• Supportcutovers, releases, and rollback readiness.

• Partnerwith business stakeholders to:
• DefineUAT scope and success criteria
• SupportUAT execution and defect triage
• Communicatequality status clearly, including:
• Risksand mitigation
• Trade offsand recommendations
• Releaseconfidence levels

• Lead,coach, and mentor the test team.
• Buildcapability across:
• ADOtest management
• WMSand eCommerce domain knowledge
• Playwright
• UIautomation for eCommerce and operational portals
• APItesting tools (Postman/REST clients)
• SQL/loganalysis (basic level)

• 5+years in testing / quality engineering
• 2+years in a test lead or test management role
• Strongexperience with ADO and Playwright
• Provenexperience testing complex integrations

• Retail,eCommerce, supply chain, or warehouse systems
• OMS/WMSintegration testing

• Strongplanning and prioritisation skills
• Clear,confident stakeholder communication
• Calmand decisive under pressure (peak events)

• Stablepeak event performance with minimal incidents
• Improvedautomation coverage of critical journeys

• On timetest completion aligned to release plans
• Fasterdefect turnaround times
• Improvedrelease confidence and predictability

• IncreasedPlaywright regression coverage
• Reducedflaky tests and faster pipeline feedback

• SuccessfulUAT outcomes
• Positivefeedback from business and operations teams

Senior Test Lead / Quality Engineering Lead

Portfolio accountability with people leadership responsibilities.