Job Title: QA Lead Experience: 5+ Years
Location: Hyderabad
Job type: Permanent
Working model: Hybrid
Role Overview
The QA Lead plays a pivotal role in ensuring robust software quality by empowering self-organized teams, implementing and improving automated test frameworks, and driving quality engineering best practices. The role requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams and strong technical expertise in automation tools, cloud-based testing, and CI/CD environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Enable product teams to improve software quality by implementing and maintaining automated test suites.
- Continuously enhance and optimize QA frameworks across the organization.
- Provide training and mentorship to product teams on test design and quality practices.
- Support QA activities including test case creation, test automation, and maintenance.
- Monitor and report QA metrics to the QA Lead Engineer to ensure testing compliance.
- Apply technical knowledge in automation tools, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud testing for efficient execution.
- Promote awareness of test automation and its importance across all product teams.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in automation QA roles using tools like Playwright, Robot Framework, Selenium .
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript (minimum 2 years).
- Proficiency in Python , particularly using Pytest for test automation.
- Deep understanding of manual and automated testing methodologies and QA best practices.
- Proven experience with test automation in cloud web applications , preferably SaaS platforms.
- Solid knowledge of CI/CD processes and tools such as Git, CircleCI .
- Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux environments .
- Experience with Confluence and Jira .
Preferred Skills
- Experience with data/API testing and unit testing frameworks (e.g., BDD with Pytest).
- Prior involvement in release management workflows.
- Domain expertise in FMCG/CPG industries and integration with ERP systems .
- Familiarity with AWS or public cloud environments .
- Strong interpersonal skills including stakeholder management, problem-solving, and communication .
Key Processes & Methodologies
- Enabling self-organized agile teams to lead quality improvements.
- Driving test automation awareness and adoption across teams.
- Regular QA reporting and metric-based insights for improvement.
- Active contribution to test framework evolution and QA strategy.
Key Relationships (Teams & Stakeholders)
- QA Lead Engineer
- Development Team Leads
- Product Managers
- DevOps & Security Team
Competencies
- Strategic Quality Mindset
- Technical Leadership
- Collaboration & Communication
- Analytical Problem Solving
Measures of Success
- Increased percentage of automated test coverage across projects.
- Improvement in test execution velocity and cycle time.
- High test requirement coverage with minimal gaps.
- Reduction in post-release defects and escalations.
- Positive feedback from product teams and engineering leadership .
Measurable progress in QA framework maturity and adoption.