Quality Assurance Automation Lead (AI\ML)

Experience - 5-6 years

Location - Bengaluru / Hyderabad / Mangalore

AI / ML Product Testing | Automation | Test Strategy | Quality Leadership

About the Role

We are looking for a QA Lead with 5–6 years of experience in leading QA activities, designing test strategies, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software. The ideal candidate has solid experience testing AI / ML-driven products , including LLM applications, ML pipelines, data-processing systems, and intelligent automation platforms. This role requires strong analytical thinking, hands-on testing capability, leadership skills, and a deep understanding of quality processes for AI-based systems.

You will work closely with product, data science, engineering, and DevOps teams to define and implement robust testing frameworks tailored for traditional systems as well as AI-based features.

Key Responsibilities

• 1. QA Strategy & Planning Lead QA efforts across the full SDLC for AI / ML and software products.
• Design test strategies for :
• AI / ML models and inference APIs
• LLM-driven features (chatbots, RAG pipelines, automation workflows)
• Microservices and backend APIs
• Web / mobile applications
• Define test plans, scope, timelines, and acceptance criteria.
• 2. AI / ML Product Testing Design and execute test scenarios for :
• Model accuracy, drift, bias, hallucination testing
• Prompt / response validation for LLM features
• Model versioning and regression testing
• RAG pipeline validation (embedding accuracy, retrieval quality)
• AI-driven UX workflows
• Work closely with ML engineers to understand model behaviour, datasets, and performance metrics.
• 3. Automation Testing Build or oversee automation frameworks for UI, API, and data validation.
• Tools commonly used :
• Selenium / Playwright / Cypress
• Postman / Newman
• PyTest / Robot Framework
• JMeter / Locust for performance
• Develop automated test suites for continuous integration pipelines.
• 4. Functional & Non-functional Testing Lead end-to-end functional testing across web / mobile platforms.
• Handle performance, load, scalability, and security testing.
• Ensure data validation, API correctness, and integration quality.
• 5. Leadership & Collaboration Lead and mentor a team of QA engineers (2–5 members).
• Conduct test reviews, defect reviews, root cause analysis, and quality audits.
• Work with cross-functional teams including PMs, DevOps, and ML engineers.
• Contribute to sprint planning, story estimation, and release readiness.
• 6. Process & Quality Improvements Establish QA best practices, guidelines, and templates.
• Drive continuous improvement of processes across automation, manual QA, and AI testing.
• Set up dashboards and metrics for test coverage, defect trends, and release quality.

Required Skills & Experience