Senior SDET/Manual QA engineer

is accountable for driving product quality through strategic test planning, automation, and release validation. Their core responsibilities span across the full QA lifecycle, ensuring robust and scalable quality practices across development and deployment stages. Lead the definition and execution of test strategies covering functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing. Build and maintain automation frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines to improve test velocity and reliability. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to ensure testable requirements and early QA involvement in the development cycle. Own release quality assurance through defect triaging, regression testing, and final release sign-off. Define, track, and report quality metrics such as defect leakage, test coverage, and build health. Conduct performance and basic security testing where applicable. Mentor junior QA team members and promote best practices in test design and execution. Continuously improve QA processes through retrospective analysis and implementation of shift-left testing principles. Ensure comprehensive documentation of test cases, bug reports, QA strategies, and quality incident postmortems. Background: Start Up Experience (B2C Start-Ups) High on Ownership Must have handled independent multiple projects Should be ok to work from office