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QA lead

  • Bengaluru / hybrid
  • full-time
  • 6+ years in software QA and testing, including 2+ years leading a team
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We're looking for a QA Lead who can balance strong hands-on testing expertise with team leadership. You'll drive quality across manual, automated, and AI-driven testing, manage a team of QA engineers, and ensure releases meet a high bar for reliability before they reach production. You'll also help the team adopt AI tooling to speed up test creation, maintenance, and analysis.

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 manual, automated, and AI-assisted testing
  • Design, review, and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks for functional, regression, and integration testing
  • Evaluate, introduce, and operationalize AI-powered testing tools and techniques, such as AI-assisted test case generation, self-healing locators, intelligent test selection and prioritization, and automated failure triage
  • Use LLMs and AI assistants to accelerate test design, test data generation, and defect analysis, with human review and validation of AI-generated output
  • Define guidelines for responsible use of AI in QA, including review checkpoints, handling of sensitive data, and traceability of AI-generated test artifacts
  • Plan and execute manual testing for areas where automation isn't 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, flakiness, 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 manual testing discipline, automation best practices, and effective use of AI tooling
  • 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 an automation-only or manual-only background
  • Hands-on experience with test automation tools/frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, RestAssured, or equivalent)
  • Practical experience applying AI in test automation, with examples of AI-assisted test generation, self-healing automation, or AI-based test analytics (e.g., Testim, Mabl, Applitools, Katalon AI, or LLM-based tooling) delivering measurable results
  • Working knowledge of prompting and validating LLM output for QA use cases, and awareness of its limitations (hallucination, non-determinism, data privacy)
  • 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 QA's 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 testing AI/ML-enabled features (model output validation, prompt regression testing, bias and accuracy checks)
  • Experience building AI-assisted test workflows using LLM APIs or agent-based test frameworks
  • 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

information security compliance

Comply with the organization's information security policies, standards, and procedures to safeguard the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets. Report any suspected security incidents or policy violations in a timely manner and support the achievement of information security and compliance objectives relevant to the role.

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