Job Title: QA Lead
Location: Chennai (Hybrid)
Experience: 8+yrs (3+ years leading QA teams)
This role combines:
- Strategic QA leadership
- Hands-on automation expertise
- Manual testing excellence
- Client-facing governance
- Team management and mentoring
- Drive QA governance, quality standards, and process improvement initiatives across projects.
- Handle client communications, release discussions, and quality review meetings.
- Publish quality dashboards, defect metrics, and release status reports to stakeholders.
- Ensure adherence to QA best practices, compliance requirements, and delivery processes.
- Lead defect triage, risk assessments, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Lead QA strategy, test planning, RTM management, and release governance.
- Manage and mentor QA teams across multiple projects.
- Drive functional, regression, integration, API, and UAT testing.
- Ensure defect prevention, risk-based testing, and production quality improvement.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and client stakeholders for release readiness.
- Publish QA dashboards and quality metrics for leadership reviews.
- Support automation initiatives and CI/CD quality integration.
- Strong experience in Manual Testing and QA Management.
- Expertise in:
o SDLC / STLC
o Test Strategy & Planning
o Defect Management
o API Testing
o SQL & Database Validation
o Agile / Scrum
- Strong AI adoption mindset with the ability to leverage AI-assisted tools and automation in day-to-day workflows and delivery processes.
- Strong functional visualization, analytical thinking, and market research capability to understand business workflows, user journeys, and industry trends.
- Hands-on experience with:
o Playwright / Selenium
o Postman / REST Assured
o Jira / TestRail
o Jenkins / GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps
- Ability to contribute to pre-sales activities including client discussions, solution presentations, requirement understanding, estimations, and proposal support.
- Excellent stakeholder communication and team management skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, Engineering, or related field.
o Healthcare
o BFSI / Fintech
o AI/OCR Platforms
o HIPAA
o GDPR
o PCI-DSS
- Exposure to automation framework maintenance and CI/CD integration.
- ISTQB certification preferred.
