Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Lead

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About the Role

Quality Engineering Lead

Talink’s Quality Engineering capability

Key Responsibilities

Test Strategy and Governance

• Define and own the overall

  test strategy

  across multiple projects and technology stacks.
• Establish

  quality standards, frameworks, and best practices

  for test planning, execution, and reporting.
• Collaborate with architects and delivery managers to align test strategies with business goals, timelines, and risk profiles.

Leadership and Resource Management

• Lead and mentor the

  Quality Engineering (QE)

  team, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and excellence.
• Manage resource planning, task allocation, and team performance across concurrent client engagements.
• Promote a high-performance culture that values shared learning and continuous improvement.

Automation and Delivery Enablement

• Drive the design and implementation of

  test automation frameworks

  and ensure seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines.
• Review and approve automation strategies, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
• Oversee

  non-functional testing

  (e.g., performance, resilience, and security) as part of delivery planning.

Client and Stakeholder Engagement

• Represent the QE practice in

  client meetings, presentations, and reviews

  .
• Translate complex testing challenges into clear, actionable, and value-driven solutions.
• Support estimation, scoping, and planning activities across engagements.

Practice Development and Continuous Improvement

• Champion

  continuous improvement initiatives

  including QA tooling, dashboards, and reusable assets.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and knowledge sharing within the QE function.
• Contribute to building internal QA capability through

  training, templates, and best-practice playbooks

  .

Qualifications and Experience

Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of

  QA strategy, test lifecycle management

  , and integration within

  Agile/DevOps

  environments.
• Proven experience in

  test automation architecture

  , framework design, and tool selection.
• Familiarity with

  cloud-native testing

  , containerization, service virtualization, and test environment management.

Experience

• 6+ years

  of experience in software quality assurance, including

  2+ years

  in a leadership or test management role.
• Demonstrated ability to

  manage test teams, ensure delivery quality

  , and engage effectively with clients and technical stakeholders.

Soft Skills

• Inspirational leadership with the ability to

  motivate and guide high-performing teams

  .
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, both technical and business-facing.
• Strategic mindset with a

  pragmatic, delivery-focused approach

  to quality assurance.