Job Description:

Leadership & Team Management

Lead and manage a team of QA Engineers and Automation Testers.
Define QA processes, standards, and best practices across projects.
Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to team members.
Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and Project Managers to ensure quality deliverables.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the QA organization.

Test Strategy & Planning

Develop comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and quality assurance roadmaps.
Estimate testing effort, resource requirements, and project timelines.
Identify testing risks and mitigation plans.
Ensure test coverage across functional, integration, regression, API, performance, and end-to-end testing.

Automation Testing

Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks.
Drive automation adoption across projects and increase automation coverage.
Review and optimize automated test scripts for reliability and maintainability.
Establish automation standards and coding best practices.
Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.

Quality Assurance & Execution

Review test cases, test scripts, and defect reports.
Monitor test execution and provide status reports to stakeholders.
Manage defect triage and ensure timely resolution of issues.
Validate application functionality, performance, security, and usability requirements.
Conduct root cause analysis for production defects and quality issues.

DevOps & Continuous Testing

Collaborate with DevOps teams to implement continuous testing practices.
Integrate automation suites with tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
Support release management and deployment validation activities.
Define and track quality metrics and KPIs.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Technical Skills

Strong experience in Automation Testing using tools such as:
Selenium WebDriver
Playwright
Cypress
TestNG / JUnit
Cucumber (BDD)
Experience in API testing using:
Postman
Rest Assured
SOAP UI
Programming experience in:
Java (preferred)
JavaScript / TypeScript
Experience with CI/CD tools:
Jenkins
Azure DevOps
GitHub Actions
Knowledge of version control systems:
Git
Bitbucket
Experience with defect management tools:
JIRA
Azure DevOps
Exposure to performance testing tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner.
Understanding of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS,) is preferred.

Leadership Skills

Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Ability to lead distributed and cross-functional teams.
Experience in effort estimation, planning, and reporting.
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Production Support Activities

Experience & Education

Experience

8-12+ years of overall QA experience.
Minimum 3-5 years in a QA Lead or Test Lead role.
Proven experience in designing and implementing automation frameworks.
Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Location:

This position can be based in any of the following locations:
Chennai, Gurgaon

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