Team Lead - QA

Job Description

Location: Ahmedabad (No Remote)

Experience: 6+ years (including 2+ years in QA leadership)

Type: Full-Time

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior QA Lead who can take full ownership of product quality, delivery assurance, and team leadership, with a sharp focus on automation-first practices. This role is ideal for someone passionate about building robust test automation frameworks, mentoring QA engineers, and driving engineering excellence across the organization.

If your belief is:

“Anything that can be tested manually should be automated” — then you’ll fit right in.

Key Responsibilities

Automation-First QA Strategy

• Architect, implement, and scale end-to-end automation suites for UI, API, backend, and integration testing.
• Own the test automation roadmap and ensure that 100% of critical functional paths are automated.
• Establish and enforce automation-first standards across QA pipelines—no manual testing unless justified. Team Leadership & Mentoring
• Lead a team of QA engineers focused on automated testing across multiple projects and platforms.
• Conduct code reviews for test automation, help troubleshoot flaky tests, and mentor team members on writing maintainable test code.
• Foster a culture of test ownership, shift-left thinking, and engineering accountability for quality.

Stakeholder & Release Management

• Act as the single point of QA contact for product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders.
• Plan, align, and prioritize test efforts based on release goals and product risks.
• Drive release sign-off via automation dashboards, metrics, and health checks—not manual validation.

CI/CD & DevOps Integration

• Integrate test suites into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab).
• Ensure fast feedback loops and minimal regression windows via parallel testing, mock services, and test data automation.
• Implement and maintain automated smoke/regression pipelines triggered on every commit or build.

Required Skills & Experience

Must-Have

• 6+ years of QA experience, 2+ years in a QA lead or managerial role.
• Proven experience in building frameworks using Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or similar tools.
• Strong experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or Java for writing automated test cases.
• Hands-on with API automation using Postman, REST-assured, Karate, or equivalent.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and Git-based workflows.
• Solid understanding of test pyramid, mocking/stubbing, and test environment management.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to align QA efforts with product strategy.

Bonus/Nice-to-Have

• Performance testing experience (e.g., JMeter, Gatling, k6).
• Experience with containerized test environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Exposure to contract testing (e.g., Pact).
• Experience working in fintech or highly regulated domains.

Why Join Us?

• Be the driving force behind our automation-first QA vision
• Own and shape the QA culture in a high-impact leadership role
• Work in a high-performing team that values speed, scalability, and quality
• Zero tolerance for manual inefficiencies—build fast, break nothing

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: ₹900,000.00 - ₹1,200,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person