Experience
: 8.00 + years
Salary
: Confidential (based on experience)
Shift
: (GMT+05:30) Asia/Kolkata (IST)
Opportunity Type
: Remote
Placement Type
: Full time Permanent Position
(*Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers' client - BrightEdge)What do you need for this opportunity?Must have skills required:web testing, API Testing, Automation Testing, Selenium, Playwright, CI - CD, AWS, Google Cloud, MySQLBrightEdge is Looking for:
QA Lead
Experience:
8–15 years in QA, with at least 2 years in a lead role
Responsibilities:
- Own and define the test strategy for features, releases, and systems across multiple teams
- Lead manual and automated testing efforts to ensure high product quality
- Mentor, guide, and grow a team of QA engineers through technical and process coaching
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and DevOps to ensure alignment on quality goals
- Drive release readiness, including regression, performance, and production validation testing
- Manage the QA effort across weekly/bi-weekly release cadences, ensuring fast feedback loops
- Identify and cover edge cases (e.g., timezones, Unicode, scaling boundaries) early in the lifecycle
- Work with automation engineers to improve CI/CD pipeline integration and coverage
- Proactively identify quality risks and own mitigation planning
- Lead root cause analyses of production issues and drive systemic improvements
- Report key quality metrics (e.g., defect leakage, automation coverage, flaky tests) to stakeholders
- Champion continuous improvement in QA processes, tools, and test architecture
- Participate in agile ceremonies, sprint planning, and release retrospectives
- Promote a strong customer-first quality mindset across engineering
- Encourage self-learning within the QA team and stay current with modern QA tools and methodologies
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong experience in web and API testing
- Automation exposure for API
- Exposure to CI/CD systems like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI
- Good understanding of MySQL, logs, and Linux debugging
- Experience working in agile teams with fast release cycles
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Comfortable working with distributed teams and across time zones
- Experience working in startup or scale-up environments
Nice to Have:
- Experience testing chatbots, AI-driven products, or browser extensions
- Exposure to performance testing and tools like JMeter or k6
- Understanding of observability practices
- Knowledge of Docker
- Hands-on with automation tools like Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Postman
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