Lead Engineer - Test Automation & Tools Development

Who we are

Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month. As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, we power most of the country’s point-of-sale (POS) transactions. Through its subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually.

About the role

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Testing Tools Development Engineer to design, develop, and maintain advanced testing frameworks and automation tools. This role focuses on building scalable, reusable, and integrated testing infrastructure that supports functional, performance, and security testing across diverse platforms and environments.

What you’ll get to do

Tool Development & Framework Design:

• Design & implement custom test automation frameworks for functional, performance, and security testing
• Develop reusable libraries, plugins, and CLI tools to support test execution, reporting, and integration with CI/CD pipelines
• Build scalable test harnesses for distributed systems, microservices, mobile native and cloud SaaS applications.

Automation & Scripting:

• Write robust, maintainable code in Java, JavaScript/TypeScript to automate test workflows.
• Integrate tools with version control systems (Git), CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, Harness), and artifact repositories

DevOps & Infrastructure Integration:

• Containerize tools using Docker and orchestrate test environments using Kubernetes
• Implement observability into test tools using New Relic, Grafana, ELK Stack

Collaboration & Enablement:

• Partner with QE, SRE/DevOps, and development teams to understand testing pain points and deliver tooling solutions.
• Provide governance model, documentation, training, and support to enable teams to adopt and extend testing tools effectively.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement:

• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies in the testing ecosystem.
• Contribute to internal best practices for test automation, tool development, & quality engineering.
• Familiarity with AI/ML-based test generation or test impact analysis.
• Background in developer experience (DevEx) or internal platform engineering

To succeed in this role, we think you should have

• 12+ years of experience in Quality Engineering and Tools development or similar role.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related engineering discipline.
• Strong programming skills in Java with a focus on tooling and automation.
• Proficiency in extending and customizing open-source tools such as:
  • Functional/UI Testing: Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium
  • API Testing: Postman/Bruno, REST Assured, Karate
  • Performance Testing: JMeter, K6, Gatling, Locust
  • Security Testing: OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, Nmap, Nessus
• Experience integrating testing tools with:
  • Test Management & Issue Tracking: Jira, Qmetry
  • Reporting & Analytics: ReportPortal, Allure, ExtentReports, Grafana
  • CI/CD Pipelines: Jenkins, Harness, ArgoCD, GitLab, SonarQube
  • Device Farms: BrowserStack, LambdaTest for cross-platform and mobile testing
• Experience with test data management, mocking frameworks, and service virtualization tools such as WireMock, Hoverfly, or Mockito
• Strong command of relational (SQL) and non-relational (NoSQL) databases, along with experience in publish-subscribe messaging