Lead Consultant(Product/Domain)
South Africa
Job Description
Lead Consultant(Product/Domain)
Others, Others

Job Summary

Responsible for defining and driving the quality strategy across enterprise-grade software platforms, ensuring the delivery of robust, high-performing, and secure digital products. Operating in a complex ecosystem of mobile applications, APIs, partner integrations, and cloud/hybrid infrastructure, the role provides leadership over functional, regression, integration, and non functional testing practices. This role oversees the end-to-end QA lifecycle from test planning and automation to release governance and defect tracking while embedding shift-left practices within Agile and DevOps workflows. The Senior QA Manager leads cross-functional QA teams, collaborates closely with engineering, product, DevOps, and infrastructure teams, and ensures quality gates are met at every phase of delivery. Beyond execution, the ideal candidate brings a balance of technical depth and managerial acumen, with a proven track record in quality automation, platform migration readiness (e.g., on-prem to Azure), and DR validation, backed by strong governance in defect management and production observability. Your contributions will accelerate time-to-market while strengthening operational maturity and platform reliability across Group and OPCO-level initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

 Test Automation & Engineering • Strong background in test automation frameworks, performance testing, and regression management  • Solid background in building and maintaining test automation frameworks for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and integration of automated tests into tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions  • Prior leadership in enforcing shift-left QA practices, quality gate definitions, and cross-team collaboration with developers, DevOps, and product owners  • Experienced with tools like Selenium, Appium, JMeter, Postman, and observability platforms such as Sentry, Firebase Crashlytics, App Center  Application & API Testing • Hands-on experience in testing mobile apps and APIs   • Competence in managing test data, mocking/stubbing services, and ensuring environment consistency across test cycles  QA Strategy & Leadership • Ability to lead quality governance, define SLA/SLO-based defect handling policies, and track quality metrics aligned to business impact  • Previous involvement in DR validation, cloud cutovers, or platform migrations preferred  • Experience leading testing strategy for infrastructure transitions, including platform cutovers, DR failovers, and performance scaling scenarios  Cloud & Infrastructure QA • Proven experience overseeing QA in cloud-based or hybrid infrastructure environments  • Proven success managing QA across hybrid cloud infrastructures, including on-prem to Azure migrations and Disaster Recovery readiness validation 

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Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.