Lead, Quality Assurance

Job Description

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, including 4 to 5 years leading engineering teams
• Strong programming skills in Java with a focus on tooling and automation
• Strong experience in testing APIs, microservices, mobile native, and web applications
• Proficiency in working with Linux/Unix environments and cloud infrastructure (GCP, Docker)
• Strong knowledge of SQL, NoSQL databases, and pub-sub technologies
• Experience in non-functional testing including performance, security, and monitoring/alerting
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness)
• Familiarity with AI/ML-based test generation or test impact analysis
• Strong experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies and leading small-to-medium teams
• Experience owning and overseeing system architecture for large-scale platforms
• Proven ability to foster collaboration, trust, and transparency across diverse teams

Responsibilities

• Mentor and manage QA Analysts and Engineers through coaching, feedback, and career development
• Collaborate closely with engineers to review product requirements, technical documentation, and code
• Drive continuous improvement in QA processes, tools, and team dynamics
• Ensure deep product understanding within the QA team for thorough and user-centric test cases
• Promote a strong quality culture across engineering, product, and business stakeholders
• Transform test metrics into dashboards and reports that guide team performance and product health
• Lead the QA function across multiple engineering teams, driving quality standards, strategies, and frameworks that scale
• Design and enforce test strategies including manual and automated testing, regression, performance, and exploratory testing
• Build out meaningful dashboards and metrics to measure QA performance: test cases written, bug leakage, regression rates