QA Manager - Pune (4+ Years)

Reports To: Platform Development Manager

Role Summary

Lead the Quality Assurance team by defining testing strategies, establishing QA processes, driving automation, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software across all products.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and manage the QA team.
• Plan and assign testing tasks based on project priorities.
• Define and maintain QA processes, standards, and best practices.
• Review requirements and ensure adequate test coverage.
• Oversee functional, regression, integration, API, and UAT testing.
• Review and validate reported defects before release.
• Drive QA automation initiatives and increase automation coverage.
• Integrate automated testing into the development and release process.
• Monitor QA metrics, release quality, and defect trends.
• Coordinate closely with Product, Development, and Project teams.
• Continuously improve testing efficiency and QA workflows.
• Ensure timely delivery of testing activities and release readiness.

Required Skills

• Manual & Automation Testing
• API Testing
• Test Planning & Test Case Review
• Bug Tracking Tools
• SQL (Basic)
• Agile/Scrum
• Leadership & Communication

Core Values

• Be proactive and take ownership.
• Lead by example.
• Focus on continuous improvement.
• Encourage automation and innovation.
• Build scalable QA processes.
• Maintain high quality standards.
• Support and mentor team members.