Lead QA Engineer

Location: Remote / Surat, Gujarat

Experience: 8+ Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Role

Kombee is looking for a Lead QA Engineer to own QA strategy, quality outcomes, and team leadership across client projects. This is a leadership-focused role requiring strong technical expertise, automation ownership, and experience driving modern QA practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Own QA strategy, processes, KPIs, release quality, and team outcomes.
• Lead, mentor, and develop QA Engineers.
• Architect scalable automation frameworks using Playwright, Appium, and WebdriverIO.
• Work with JavaScript/Node.js and BDD.
• Drive QA POCs and adoption of modern testing tools and AI-enabled QA practices.
• Plan and execute performance, load, and security testing.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and establish quality gates.
• Reduce flaky tests and improve automation reliability.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and client stakeholders.
• Define testing strategies, methodologies, and quality standards.
• Drive continuous improvement through QA metrics and retrospectives.

Required Skills

• 8+ years of QA experience with proven leadership/team or account ownership.
• Strong experience with Playwright, Appium, WebdriverIO, JavaScript/Node.js, and BDD.
• Hands-on experience in performance, load, and security testing.
• Strong CI/CD and automation framework experience.
• Excellent understanding of SDLC, STLC, and Agile methodologies.
• Strong stakeholder and client communication skills.
• Proven experience mentoring and developing QA teams.
• Experience defining and owning QA processes.

Preferred Skills

• AI-driven QA tools and automation.
• OWASP ZAP, Burp, k6, or JMeter.
• Database testing and automation at scale.
• Client-facing or consulting experience.
• Experience representing QA capabilities in external forums or industry events.

Ideal Candidate

• A hands-on QA leader who can combine technical expertise, strategic thinking, team leadership, automation, and AI-driven testing to build a scalable quality engineering function.