QA Engineering Lead

The client is 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 a QA role, 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. You will need to implement best practices in testing, own quality strategy documentation, and integrate with CI/CD tools. Key Responsibilities: - Lead and manage a QA team (4+ members) handling ETL, UI, DB, and end-to-end testing. - Analyze requirements, create detailed test cases and test data (manual & automated). - Validate ETL workflows and transformation logic using advanced SQL (Snowflake/Postgres/MySQL). - Create and maintain automation scripts using BDD (Gherkin/Behave, Pytest) in Python. - Integrate automation frameworks with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub, Rundeck. - Develop and maintain documentation - Test Strategy, BRDs, Defect Reports, etc. - Drive collaboration across DevOps, SRE, developers, and stakeholders. - Provide testing metrics and improvement plans to senior leadership. Qualifications: - 9-12 years total QA experience with 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). - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Nice To Have: - Exposure to DBT, Informatica, or MS Power BI. - Healthcare/Life Sciences domain knowledge. - Front-end vs back-end validation exposure. - Willingness to work flexible hours with international teams. Education: - BCA / B.Sc. (Computer Science) / B.E. / B.Tech / MCA / M.E. / M.Tech This role offers a full-time hybrid work environment with flexible working hours, collaborating with teams in India, US, and Colombia. The compensation ranges from 2,200,000 to 2,400,000 yearly. Team leadership experience with a minimum of 2 reportees is required for this position.,