QA Lead

Role Summary

The Senior Quality Engineer will be responsible for driving the quality strategy designing robust test frameworks and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software products. This role involves close collaboration with product development and DevOps teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Test Strategy & Planning
  • Define own and continuously improve the end-to-end test strategy for assigned products/modules.
  • Analyse business and technical requirements to identify test scenarios coverage gaps and quality risks.
  • Estimate testing efforts plan test cycles and contribute to release planning.
• Test Design & Execution
  • Design develop and maintain comprehensive test cases (functional regression integration system UI API).
  • Perform manual and automated testing for web components as required.
  • Ensure high-quality test documentation test plans test cases test data and traceability matrices.
• Test Automation
  • Design and implement robust maintainable test automation frameworks.
  • Develop and maintain automated test scripts for regression smoke and integration tests.
  • Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and ensure fast feedback to development teams.
• Quality Governance & Best Practices
  • Define and track quality metrics (defect density test coverage escape rate etc.).
  • Advocate and implement best practices in QA/QE across teams (shift-left testing code quality testability).
  • Participate in code reviews for test code and provide feedback on testability for production code.
• Defect Management
  • Identify document and track defects with clear reproduction steps and impact analysis.
  • Partner with engineers to triage defects drive root cause analysis and prevent recurrence.
  • Validate fixes and ensure timely closure of issues.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
  • Work closely with developers product managers to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria.
  • Contribute to refinement and design discussions providing a quality perspective early in the lifecycle.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum 6 years of hands-on experience in Quality Engineering / Software Testing in an Agile environment.
• Strong experience in:
  • Manual testing of complex applications.
  • UI/UX testing
  • Test automation for UI using tools such as Selenium / Playwright / Cypress .
• Proficient in at least one programming/scripting language: Java C# JavaScript/TypeScript Python or similar.
• Experience building and maintaining automation frameworks and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins Azure DevOps GitHub Actions).
• Experience with defect tracking and test management tools (Azure DevOps).

Preferred Skills (Good to Have)

• Experience with BDD tools (e.g. Cucumber)
• Knowledge on Adobe Experience Manager

Behavioural Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Proactive ownership mindset with the ability to work independently and handle multiple priorities.
• Passion for quality automation and continuous improvement.