Lead Manual QA Engineer

Lead manual QA activities to ensure high-quality software delivery by establishing testing processes, managing defects, and mentoring QA engineers. Collaborate closely with developers, business analysts, product owners, and stakeholders to validate requirements, acceptance criteria, and quality standards across releases.

Responsibilities

• QA leadership and team management: mentor QA engineers, allocate tasks, monitor deliverables.
• QA process establishment and continuous improvement: define standards, guide methodologies, improve efficiency.
• Test planning and execution: create strategies, plans, cases, data; oversee testing types.
• Test coverage and validation: ensure functional/regression/integration coverage; validate usability, data integrity, compliance.
• Defect and issue management: identify, prioritize, track defects; investigate fixes; prevent recurrence.
• Stakeholder collaboration: align on requirements, acceptance criteria, sprint activities, release readiness.
• Quality monitoring and reporting: define QA metrics, document evidence, recommend release decisions.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years in software QA or manual testing, including leading/mentoring QA teams.
• Strong manual testing expertise: test design techniques, defect management, QA methodologies.
• Proven ability to create and maintain test plans, cases, scenarios, and reports.
• Experience testing web, mobile, APIs, or enterprise software systems.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum and SDLC; participate in sprint planning and refinement.
• Experience with Jira, TestRail, Zephyr, or equivalent test/defect tracking tools.
• Basic SQL knowledge for database validation; strong analytical, communication, organizational skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience establishing or improving QA processes and testing standards.
• Exposure to test automation concepts and collaboration with automation engineers.
• Experience with CI/CD workflows and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience in fast-paced Agile or product-driven environments.
• Familiarity with API testing tools like Postman.