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As a QA Lead, your role involves overseeing the quality assurance process to ensure that products meet high standards of quality and reliability. You will lead a team of QA engineers, define testing strategies, and implement best practices to prevent defects throughout the software development lifecycle. Responsibilities: - Lead and mentor a team of QA engineers, offering guidance and support in all quality assurance aspects. - Develop and implement QA processes, procedures, and standards for consistency and efficiency. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand product requirements and create comprehensive test plans. - Design, execute, and automate test cases to validate software functionality, performance, and scalability. - Identify and prioritize areas for test automation, and create automated test scripts using suitable tools and frameworks. - Establish and maintain test environments and data sets to support ongoing testing activities. - Monitor and analyze test results, identify defects, and track them to resolution using bug tracking systems. - Participate in release planning and deployment activities to ensure quality objectives are met for each release. - Conduct root cause analysis of defects and collaborate with development teams to implement corrective and preventive actions. - Stay updated with industry trends and best practices in software quality assurance. Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. - Proven experience in software quality assurance, including a minimum of 2 years in a leadership role. - Strong understanding of QA methodologies, tools, and processes. - Experience with test automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Appium, JUnit, TestNG). - Proficiency in programming/scripting languages like Java, Python, or JavaScript. - Familiarity with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD). - Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail. - Strong communication and leadership skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. - Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies is advantageous. - ISTQB or other relevant certifications are desirable but not mandatory.,