Quality Engineering Lead
Roles & Responsibilities:
Maintain an automation-first mindset and approach.
Primary point of contact for the QE team and responsible for all QE deliverables
Enforce testing best practices and guide the team to follow those standards.
Finds opportunities for automation in lieu of manual testing and enforces the Automation First, Contract First approach.
Design & develop test automation frameworks and customize test automation framework on project needs.
Understand and follow business requirements, identify gaps in the business requirements, advice the client accordingly and helps the team in covering all business use cases.
Able to define test strategy and leads the team in implementing it.
Guide QEs on test plan, approach, tools, and test automation scripting needs.
Identify, define, and manage tools and processes for the team.
Mentor team members on Scrum and Agile framework.
Effectively use and guide the team on test management tool (test design, execution, reporting, traceability matrix)
Assist in implementation of the test management tool within the team.
Establish, generate, and publish test execution & bug reports, testing metrics, trends etc.
Effectively use and guide the team on defect management process (Create, set priority/severity, retest, close, root cause analysis, defect prevention)
Guide team members on identifying the root cause of bugs (e.g. API/BE, data, UI, logs, or environment issues etc.)
Generate and guide team members on bug metrics and reports.
Coordinate bug triage between business, dev, and test teams across all kinds of bugs.
Drive and train team members to execute automated test cases (happy path, edge cases, negative, complex business scenarios) for browser-based or mobile applications.
Drive and train team members to create and execute test cases (happy path, edge cases, negative, complex business scenarios) for REST or SOAP APIs.
Train team members to write and execute complex SQL queries and commands.
Lead internal team meetings and drive communication with clients.
Actively participate in client meetings, project-wide reviews of requirements, system architecture and detailed design documents
Manage and perform load and stress tests using enterprise level test automation tools.
Manage, lead, and maintain physical, virtualized, and simulated test environments.
Required Skills:
Experience in designing and developing a new test automation framework from scratch using a test automation tool like Playwright/JavaScript/TypeScript or /Selenium/Cucumber/Java or Selenium/C#.net/Spec Flow or similar frameworks.
Hands-on experience in software testing and writing test automation code in at least one programming or scripting language (JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C# and/or Python) and guide team members on technical front.
Hands-on experience in developing and executing test scripts for REST or SOAP based APIs.
Experience in intercepting and mocking complex HTTP API calls in UI and API tests.
Experience in writing and guiding teams on complex end-to-end tests automation.
Experienceon test management and defect tracking tools like Jira, Azure DevOps, HP ALM, etc.
Experience in driving defect management strategy (create, set priority/severity, retest, close, traceability, reporting etc.)
Experience in driving the team to implement automated test suites for all testing types (unit, component, API, UI, UAT, E2E, etc.)
Hands-on experience in writing and executing complex SQL queries and understands concepts like indexing, schemas, views, etc.
Experience in training team members to understand version control concepts.
Perform lead-level automation code review as a required approver.
Experience in guiding the team on version control concepts, tools and hands-on experience on commands and operations (like commit, fetch, push, pull, squash, resolve merge conflicts etc.)
Experience in establishing branching strategy and best practices for automation code review process (in coordinate with Engg. lead, DevSecOps)
Hands-on experience on at least one of the performance testing tools(e.g., JMeter, K6, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, etc.).
Experience in analyzing performance testing requirements and implementation of load, stress, endurance, volume testing etc.
Experience in leading the team on CI/CD pipeline implementation for automated tests suites. (in coordination with DevSecOps team)
Experience in creating test plan for accessibility and security testing.
Hands-on experience on cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP)
Understanding of Gen AI, Gen AI tools (e.g., GitHub CoPilot) and experience in leveraging Gen AI in quality engineering space.
Language requirement: English
Preferred Skills:
Mobile test automation development is a big plus.
Experience leading and working with cross-functional teams in fast-growing environment.
Strong organizational skills and eager to tackle new challenges.
Experience planning, designing, and implementing testing strategies and automation infrastructure for large scale system software.
Required Qualifications:
• At least one (4) year of experience using a test automation tool like Selenium/Cucumber/ Java or Selenium/C#.net/Spec Flow/Rest assured or similar frameworks.
• Hands-on experience in software testing and writing software testing automation- UI, API
• Experience in messaging systems (AMQ, WMQ or Kafka)
• Hands on experience in at least one performance testing tool
• Deep level of knowledge in test plans, test automation design, frameworks, and iterative development
• Experience with and can explain what Behavior-Driven Design (BDD) is and how the Cucumber (or similar) testing framework is used.
