Brightedge - Quality Assurance Lead - Manual & Automation Testing

Experience : 8 - 15 years in QA, with at least 2 years in a lead role.

Responsibilities : .

• Own and define the test strategy for features, releases, and systems across multiple teams.
• Lead manual and automated testing efforts to ensure high product quality.
• Mentor, guide, and grow a team of QA engineers through technical and process coaching.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and DevOps to ensure alignment on quality goals.
• Drive release readiness, including regression, performance, and production validation testing.
• Manage the QA effort across weekly / bi-weekly release cadences, ensuring fast feedback loops.
• Identify and cover edge cases (e.g, timezones, Unicode, scaling boundaries) early in the lifecycle.
• Work with automation engineers to improve CI / CD pipeline integration and coverage.
• Proactively identify quality risks and own mitigation planning.
• Lead root cause analyses of production issues and drive systemic improvements.
• Report key quality metrics (e.g, defect leakage, automation coverage, flaky tests) to stakeholders.
• Champion continuous improvement in QA processes, tools, and test architecture.
• Participate in agile ceremonies, sprint planning, and release retrospectives.
• Promote a strong customer-first quality mindset across engineering.
• Encourage self-learning within the QA team and stay current with modern QA tools and methodologies.

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