QA Lead

Role Summary

We are looking for an experienced QA Lead to own and strengthen our quality strategy across a complex digital product. The ideal candidate will lead a small automation team, define testing standards, improve release confidence, and collaborate closely with Engineering and DevOps. This role requires strong hands-on automation experience along with leadership and process maturity.

Key Responsibilities :

QA Strategy Leadership

Define overall QA strategy (manual + automation)

Establish quality standards and best practices

Create test plans for complex features

Drive shift-left testing approach

Define quality gates before release Automation Ownership

Review and improve current automation framework

Ensure stable and maintainable test architecture

Increase automation coverage (UI + API + integration)

Improve test reliability and reduce flaky tests

Integrate automation with CI pipeline Team Leadership

Mentor QA automation engineers

Review test scripts and standards

Help team grow technically

Participate in hiring future QA members Release Risk Management

Work with DevOps to support CI/CD pipelines

Define release readiness criteria

Identify high-risk areas in product

Ensure regression coverage before deployments

Participate in production issue RCA Collaboration

Work closely with: Backend engineers Frontend engineers Product managers DevOps engineer

Advocate for testability during feature design Required Skills Technical Skills

4+ years in QA

2+ years in QA leadership role

Strong experience in: Test automation frameworks (Selenium / Cypress / Playwright / etc.) API testing (Postman / RestAssured / similar) Test design strategies

CI/CD integration knowledge (e.g., Jenkins or similar)

Strong understanding of: Regression testing Smoke testing Performance testing basics Test data management Infrastructure Awareness

Understand environment setup dependencies

Work closely with DevOps on staging production validation

Handle testing across multiple environments manually if needed

Understand server-based deployments Soft Skills

Strong ownership mindset

Proactive problem solver

Process builder (not just executor)

Clear communicator

Comfortable working in evolving setups Good To Have

Experience in scaling QA in growing companies

Experience building automation from scratch

Knowledge of performance testing tools

Exposure to security testing basics

Selection Process

Aptitude Assessment Round

Technical Round

Operations Round

HR Round (if required)

Work Schedule Location

Work from Office: Monday to Friday

Week Off: Saturdays Sundays fixed Off

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