QA Automation Test Lead

QA Lead / Test Lead – Manual & Automation Testing

Experience

Required:

8–10 Years

Primary

Skills:

Selenium, Data Protection with Quality Assurance

• Define QA strategy, test approach, scope, and quality standards for projects/releases
• Create and oversee test plans, test cases, regression suites, and traceability matrices
• Identify risks and dependencies; ensure quality gates are met across SDLC

• Lead an onshore QA team and collaborate with offshore QA resources
• Assign tasks, manage workload, and provide mentorship and technical guidance
• Participate in Agile ceremonies: sprint planning, refinement, standups, retrospectives

• Drive execution of functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Manage defect lifecycle, ensuring timely root-cause analysis and closure
• Perform hands-on testing when required, including API and database validation
• Ensure compliance with documentation, audit, and regulatory standards

• Collaborate with automation engineers to enhance automation frameworks and coverage
• Promote quality engineering best practices, including shift-left testing and CI/CD quality controls
• Identify gaps in processes and propose improvements for efficiency and quality

• 7–10 years of QA experience, with at least 3 years in a QA Lead role
• Strong experience in manual testing, test case design, and enterprise QA processes
• Hands-on experience in API testing (Postman, SoapUI) and SQL for backend validation
• Familiarity with automation tools:
  Selenium, Cypress, Playwright
• Experience with CI/CD practices
• Proficiency in test management tools:
  Jira, Azure Dev Ops, ALM, or similar
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience working across onshore-offshore delivery teams