Quality Assurance Lead

As a Quality Assurance Lead/Manager in Kochi, India, you play a pivotal role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality software products. Your responsibilities include defining and implementing comprehensive quality assurance strategies, leading and managing a team of QA engineers, and collaborating with stakeholders to meet quality objectives. Your expertise in testing methodologies, automation, and people management will drive continuous improvement and deliver exceptional results. You will define quality standards and metrics for the project, work with stakeholders to review and agree upon quality metrics, and resolve QA team queries. Creating milestones, setting measurable criteria for quality checks, defining test plan processes, and planning milestones and tasks are also part of your role. You will ensure all development tasks meet quality criteria through test planning, execution, quality assurance, and issue tracking. Team allocation, automation testing implementation, training, and focusing on automation alongside manual testing are essential tasks. Raising the bar of quality processes, setting up test plan reviews, and ensuring various testing types are covered are key responsibilities. You will establish quality standards in new testing technologies, set goals for QA engineers, and motivate the team for continuous improvement. The minimum qualifications for this role include a bachelor's degree in Engineering/Technology, 7+ years of experience with 3+ years in team management, and a proven track record in evolving testing strategies. Proficiency in programming languages, software skills, development toolsets, technical development experience, problem-solving skills, and experience in project lifecycles are required. You should also have experience in managing internal teams and external vendors, team building, and people management skills.,