Lead QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Quality Engineering and Test Leadership: Define and implement end-to-end QA strategy for UI, API, backend, platform, and integrations and Lead functional, regression, integration, security, and performance testing activities.
• Automation Framework Ownership: Build and enhance automation frameworks for Selenium/ Playwright (React UI) and API automation (Django-based APIs). Reduce regression cycle time by maximising automation coverage.
• Release Quality Governance: Ensure all sprint releases, patches, and production go-lives meet quality benchmarks. Validate stability of features integrated with Big Data pipelines, AI modules, and platform operations.
• Defect Management and RCA: Lead defect triage, prioritisation, and RCA-driven continuous improvement to ensure all critical defects are resolved before deployment. AI Workflow Validation: Ensure end-to-end validation of data ingestion to data visualisation workflows.
• Collaboration with Cross-Functional Team: Work closely with Platform Engineering, AI Engineering, Software Engineering, and delivery teams to support production go-live validations.
• Documentation and Compliance: Maintain test plans, test cases, release notes, and QA compliance documents and ensure standardisation of QA processes and audit readiness.

Requirements:

• Proficiency in Selenium / Playwright / Cypress for React UI testing.
• Experience with Postman and Newman for API testing.
• Good to have Python for Django backend validation.
• Knowledge of Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong experience in JIRA or equivalent test management tool.
• Expertise in defect RCA, risk-based testing, and quality metrics.
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum testing processes.

Skills - Additional:

• Knowledge of Kubernetes, microservices testing, containers.
• Experience in performance testing tools (JMeter, Locust).
• Understanding of React, Django, REST frameworks.
• Experience testing AI/ML workflows is an added advantage.
• ISTQB or equivalent QA certification is an advantage.

Education:

• UG: BE/B. Tech - IT/CS.
• PG: M. Tech/MCA - IT/CS.

Experience / Skill Level:

• 5 years of experience in QA and Test Automation.
• Experience leading QA cycles for enterprise platforms.
• Strong UI + API automation background (React + Django environment preferred).
• Ability to guide junior QA engineers and own release-level quality.