Lead Test Automation Engineer - Cloud & ETL

You will be joining a global digital solutions company known for its expertise in cloud, data engineering, and quality assurance, with a strong focus on innovation and agile delivery across BFSI and Healthcare sectors. As a leader in the QA team, you will be responsible for managing both manual and automated testing across ETL pipelines, UI, and databases. Your role will involve leading a team and collaborating cross-functionally across global teams, implementing best practices in testing, owning quality strategy documentation, and integrating with CI/CD tools. Your key responsibilities will include leading and managing a QA team of 4+ members handling ETL, UI, DB, and end-to-end testing. You will analyze requirements, create detailed test cases and test data (both manual & automated), and validate ETL workflows and transformation logic using advanced SQL (Snowflake/Postgres/MySQL). You will also be responsible for creating and maintaining automation scripts using BDD (Gherkin/Behave, Pytest) in Python, integrating automation frameworks with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub, Rundeck, and developing and maintaining documentation such as Test Strategy, BRDs, Defect Reports, etc. Additionally, you will drive collaboration across DevOps, SRE, developers, and stakeholders, and provide testing metrics and improvement plans to senior leadership. To be successful in this role, you must have 9-12 years of total QA experience with at least 6 years in ETL/UI/DB testing, 3+ years of experience in automation testing (Selenium v3+, Playwright) with Python, strong hands-on experience with SQL queries (preferably Snowflake/Postgres), experience with AWS or other cloud platforms, proven leadership managing at least 2 QA team members, working experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban), and excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Nice to have qualifications include exposure to DBT, Informatica, or MS Power BI, healthcare/life sciences domain knowledge, and willingness to work flexible hours with international teams. Required Education: BCA / B.Sc. (Computer Science) / B.E. / B.Tech / MCA / M.E. / M.Tech,