QA Manager

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development and implementation of comprehensive test strategies that align with project and business goals, technical requirement and quality standards.
• Lead Quality Engineering initiatives for a portfolio and strategize the transition from traditional quality assurance approach to quality engineering practices.
• Expert in planning testing for both manual and automation in the following areas – Progression, Regression, Integration, E2E, Accessibility, POS , Load & Performance, Security
• Design E2E test automation tools and solutions to ensure testing efficiency across multiple platforms and domains
• Design mobile application testing frameworks ensuring optimal quality for both iOS and Android platforms
• Implement measures to support effectively automated CI/CD pipelines to improve release cycles with a perspective of shift left approach
• Champion testing best practices across the organization. Provide technical leadership to the team and make sure best practices are continuously followed and evolved.
• Expertise in defining KPIs for measuring quality. Establishing standard reporting mechanisms to track effectiveness of testing and success of test automation
• Drive innovation by introducing emerging QA tools and technologies, leveraging AI-driven test automation solutions
• Familiarity with devising a test strategy for testing on-prem or cloud POS systems, hardware and peripheral devices.
• Familiarity with setting up and maintaining an org wide QA lab for testing.
  

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in software testing with at least 6-7 years of experience in Test Architecture and a leadership role.
• Proven expertise in QA transformation initiatives and building high-performing QA solutions
• Strong understanding of software development process and methodologies like Agile, Scrum and Sprint ceremonies etc
• Deep knowledge and hands-on experience with high-demand popular automation tools like Selenium, Appium, Cypress, Playwright etc.
• Hands-on experience in Integration Test Automation with CICD tools like Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps etc and the process to setup a pipeline
• Proficiency in at least a couple of programming languages like Java, Python, Java/Type Script.
• Familiarity with cloud based testing environments and tools like AWS, Azure, BrowserStack
• Solid knowledge of APIs (Postman, Swagger, RestAssured), microservices, databases and cloud platforms
• Strongly skilled in solving critical problems, identifying and analysing gaps, collaborating effectively with business and technical teams and be a QA consultant for stakeholders
• Knowledge on Gen AI testing tools (added advantage)
• Knowledge on no/low code tools (added advantage)