Franscois Botha is a seasoned Quality Engineering (QE) leader with over 23 years of experience driving digital transformation across the financial services industry. As the QE Practice Lead at Nedbank, he spearheads enterprise-wide quality strategies, automation-first initiatives, and CI/CD adoption across core banking, SAP S/4HANA migrations, and regulatory portfolios. He is a recipient of the Nedbank Achiever Award for his groundbreaking contributions to quality engineering modernization. Franscois is the founder of QE Gauge™, a startup and maturity assessment platform helping teams self-evaluate and accelerate their QE journey. His practical QE models have been adopted across Agile and DevOps environments to scale test automation, shift-left practices, and performance engineering with measurable impact. He is the author of two influential books: From QA to QE: Building Excellence in Modern Software Engineering The QE Playbook: Strategies for Scaling Quality in Agile and DevOps Both titles are used as reference frameworks by engineering and QA leaders across the industry. Franscois is a passionate advocate for embedding quality into every stage of the software lifecycle, aligning engineering rigor with business outcomes. He continues to mentor the next generation of QE leaders while actively contributing to thought leadership in AI-driven testing, observability, and quality governance.