QA Lead

QA Lead

Location: Bengaluru / Hybrid

Experience: 6+ years in Software QA/Testing, including 2+ years in a team- handling/lead capacity

Employment Type: Full-time

Summary

Were looking for a QA Lead who can balance strong hands-on testing expertise with team leadership. Youll be responsible for driving quality across both manual and automated testing efforts, managing a team of QA engineers, and ensuring releases meet a high bar for reliability before they reach production.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of QA engineers assign work, review test coverage, and ensure timely, quality delivery
• Own the test strategy for assigned projects, covering both manual and automated testing
• Design, review, and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks for functional, regression, and integration testing
• Plan and execute manual testing for areas where automation isnt feasible or cost-effective, including exploratory and edge-case testing
• Define test plans, test cases, and acceptance criteria in collaboration with product and engineering teams
• Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous delivery
• Track and report quality metrics defect trends, test coverage, release readiness to engineering and product stakeholders
• Manage defect triage, prioritization, and closure, and drive root cause analysis on recurring issues
• Mentor QA engineers on both manual testing discipline and automation best practices
• Ensure test documentation and evidence are consistently maintained to support audit and compliance needs

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Software QA/Testing, with at least 2+ years leading or handling a QA team
• Strong, demonstrated experience in both manual and automated testing not automation-only or manual-only background
• Hands-on experience with test automation tools/frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Rest Assured, or equivalent)
• Solid understanding of API testing and its automation
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)
• Strong grasp of SDLC/Agile practices and QAs role within them
• Experience with test management and defect tracking tools (Jira, TestRail, Zephyr, or similar)
• Strong communication and people-management skills, with experience conducting reviews, mentoring, and prioritizing team workload

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to SOC 2 and/or ISO 27001 compliance requirements, particularly around test documentation, traceability, and audit evidence, is a strong plus
• Experience with performance/load testing tools (JMeter, k6, Gatling)
• Familiarity with testing in containerized or cloud-native (Kubernetes) environments
• Experience setting up quality gates within CI/CD pipelines

What Were Looking For

Someone who can operate as both a strong individual contributor in testing and a capable people leader comfortable getting into the details of test cases and automation scripts, while also owning team output and stakeholder communication.