About the job
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
Preferred Qualifications :
Strong experience in web and API testingAutomation exposure for APIExposure to CI / CD systems like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CIGood understanding of MySQL, logs, and Linux debuggingExperience working in agile teams with fast release cyclesExcellent communication and stakeholder management skillsComfortable working with distributed teams and across time zonesExperience working in startup or scale-up environmentsNice to Have :
Experience testing chatbots, AI-driven products, or browser extensionsExposure to performance testing and tools like JMeter or k6Understanding of observability practicesKnowledge of DockerHands-on with automation tools like Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Postman