About this role
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.
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Location:
This position can be based in any of the following locations:
Chennai, Gurgaon
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