QA Test Lead

Greetings from Teknikoz

Experience : 4-8 Years

Location : Yangon, Myanmar (On-site)

*Must have experience in Telecom Industry*

Job Purpose:

To lead QA activities across multiple CRs and projects, providing strategic direction, coordination, and hands-on test execution support to ensure the highest standards of delivery.

Principal Accountabilities:

•Define and implement test strategies, plans, and test case design for each delivery stream.

•Act as both team lead and individual contributor—executing complex test cases and supporting defect analysis.

•Experience managing or coordinating test environments and test data provisioning.

•Coordinate test planning and execution across multiple teams (manual and automation).

•Lead daily defect triage meetings and ensure proper RCA and closure.

•Decision-making under pressure.

•Conflict resolution and stakeholder management.

•Ability to communicate test risks with business teams.

•Track and report on test progress, quality metrics, and resource utilization.

•Collaborate closely with business analysts, developers, and release managers to ensure test readiness and alignment.

•Mentor junior team members and support knowledge sharing and onboarding.

•Advocating the best testing practices across the delivery lifecycle.

•Strong communication skills to align testing initiatives with business goals.

•Estimating testing effort for new features/devs/enhancements.

•Define and track quality KPIs (e.g., defect leakage rate, test coverage, cycle time) and continuously improve QA efficiency.

•Working with customers and 3rd-party vendors.

•Incident and defect management.

•Test Delivery planning and milestone management.

Qualifications:

•Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.

•10+ years of experience in software testing, including 3+ years in leadership capacity.

•ISTQB Advanced Level, Certified Agile Tester, or similar

•Proven ability to lead QA teams while also contributing as a hands-on tester.

•Strong understanding of STLC, Agile, and Waterfall methodologies.

•SQL for backend validation.

•Advocate Shift-Left practices, drive early test coverage via TDD using tools like Cucumber or TestNG.

•Knowledge of JUnit, or similar test frameworks.

•Hands-on experience with Selenium/WebDriver.

•Automation frameworks like TestNG, Cucumber, or Cypress

•Awareness or exposure to performance testing tools like JMeter, LoadRunner

•Basic understanding of security testing or vulnerability assessment (e.g., OWASP top 10)

•Familiarity with API testing tools (e.g., Postman, REST-assured) and Git/Jenkins.

•Good communication and documentation skills.

•Experience with test management and defect tracking tools such as JIRA.

•Understanding telecom, BSS testing environments is an advantage.