Lead II - Software Testing

Quality Engineering Lead (Automation Quality Assurance) Role Summary Key Responsibilities Quality Strategy Leadership

• Define and drive the overall Quality Engineering and Test Automation strategy across enterprise delivery programs.
• Establish quality standards, governance models, quality gates, and release readiness criteria.
• Lead functional, automation, integration, API, regression, performance, and non-functional testing initiatives.
• Partner with business stakeholders, Product Owners, architects, and engineering leaders to embed quality early in the delivery lifecycle.

Automation Excellence

• Design, implement, and scale robust automation frameworks for large, multi-team delivery environments.
• Drive automation maturity through improved coverage, maintainability, reusability, execution efficiency, and CI/CD integration.
• Define automation architecture, coding standards, reusable components, reporting frameworks, and governance practices.
• Promote API-first testing, continuous testing, shift-left practices, and automation-driven quality assurance.

Delivery Governance Quality Metrics

• Define and monitor KPIs including automation coverage, defect leakage, test effectiveness, execution success rates, and release quality metrics.
• Establish dashboards for quality reporting, risk visibility, and executive-level governance.
• Review test strategies, defect trends, environment readiness, test data approaches, and overall delivery risks.
• Ensure transparent reporting of quality status, dependencies, risks, and mitigation plans.

Team Leadership Mentoring

• Lead, mentor, and develop QA engineers, automation specialists, and quality practitioners.
• Drive best practices around automation design, coding standards, peer reviews, estimation, and testing methodologies.
• Foster a quality-first engineering culture across development and testing teams.
• Enable continuous improvement through coaching, knowledge sharing, and technical leadership.

Continuous Quality Engineering

• Promote CI/CD-aligned testing practices and automated quality validation.
• Support adoption of service virtualization, test data management, contract testing, and observability-driven quality metrics.
• Ensure compliance with security, audit, traceability, data privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Champion defect prevention and proactive quality risk management.

Required Skills Automation Quality Engineering

• Enterprise Test Automation Frameworks
• Functional Regression Automation
• API Testing Automation
• Quality Engineering Best Practices
• Test Strategy Governance

Automation Tools Technologies

• Selenium
• Playwright
• Cypress
• Rest Assured
• Postman / Newman
• Cucumber
• JUnit / TestNG

Programming Scripting

• Java
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• Python

DevOps CI/CD

• Azure DevOps
• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions
• GitLab CI/CD
• Continuous Testing Practices

Agile Delivery

• Agile Scaled Agile Frameworks
• Multi-Squad Delivery Programs
• Sprint Release Governance
• Cross-Functional Team Collaboration

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
• Equivalent practical experience may be considered.
• Professional certifications such as ISTQB, SAFe, Agile, Scrum, or Automation Testing Certifications are preferred.

Preferred Experience

• Large-scale enterprise automation transformations.
• Banking, Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, or regulated industry environments.
• Performance testing using JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, K6, or equivalent tools.
• Cloud-native testing in Azure, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, or containerized platforms.
• Experience with Jira, Zephyr, Xray, qTest, ALM, or Azure DevOps Test Management.
• Exposure to accessibility testing, security testing, contract testing, and service virtualization.

Success Measures

• Increased automation coverage and reduced reliance on manual regression testing.
• Stable and scalable automation frameworks supporting enterprise delivery needs.
• Faster and more reliable test execution integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Improved release quality, defect prevention, and delivery predictability.
• Enhanced visibility through quality dashboards, metrics, and governance reporting.
• Strong engineering collaboration and adoption of shift-left quality practices.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Strategic quality leader with hands-on automation expertise.
• Proven experience leading automation initiatives across multiple teams or enterprise programs.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to influence engineering teams and drive quality ownership across the organization.
• Passionate about building scalable, automation-first quality engineering practices.
• Results-oriented leader focused on continuous improvement and delivery excellence.