Test Lead

Senior Test Lead

Gurgaon/Bangalore, India

The Senior Test Lead will be responsible for driving quality engineering strategies, processes, and standards for company’s diverse suite of business applications, ensuring they meet the high-quality standards. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and lead the cultural shift in testing practices leveraging the best test tools, technologies, processes and framework to deliver a consistent and market leading testing service to the Enterprise applications.

The candidate will lead our quality engineering efforts with a major focus on test automation and building robust technical capabilities within our organization. The ideal candidate will drive innovation in testing practices, foster a culture of continuous improvement, and develop scalable automation frameworks that enhance product quality and delivery efficiency.

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Define and execute the vision and roadmap for test automation and quality engineering excellence across the organization.
• Design and implement scalable and maintainable test automation frameworks that support various testing needs, including functional, regression, and performance testing within Global Technology.
• Drive adoption of automation tools and practices to improve test coverage, reliability, and speed and ensure automation strategies align with business objectives and technical standards.
• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing quality engineering team with a focus on test automation and foster a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and technical excellence.
• Review and assess vendor provided test automation proposals and solutions ensuring it meets organizational standards, requirements, best practices and are cost efficient.
• Negotiate and manage contracts with vendors, ensuring that service level agreements (SLAs) are met and that vendors deliver high-quality testing services.
• Cultivate the culture of continuous testing by ensuring that automated tests are seamlessly integrated into the CI/CD pipeline, providing continuous feedback on the quality of software builds.
• Develop and implement strategies for integrating AI into testing processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Evaluate and recommend new tools and technologies to enhance the test automation capability and improve efficiency across organization.
• Help estimate new testing work requests and manage estimates against actuals to ensure change controls are appropriately managed and budgeted.
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of quality engineering activities, using data-driven insights to inform decision-making.
• Prepare and present progress reports to TCoE management and other AXA XL stakeholders as required.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to quality engineers, helping them develop their skills and expertise in test automation and quality engineering.
• Identify the training requirements within the organization to help enhance the technical capabilities throughout the Quality Engineering teams.

You will report to Test and Release COE Lead.

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Effective understanding of software development methodologies, including agile and waterfall model.
• Extensive experience in test automation, including the development and implementation of automated test frameworks.
• Experience in building and leading high-performing quality engineering teams.
• Proven experience in vendor management, including vendor selection, contract negotiation, and performance monitoring.
• Extensive Experience with test automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, JUnit, TestNG).
• Experience in implementing the GenAI based solutions to optimize testing processes.

• Good understanding of performance testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling etc.
• Effective understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and microservices…