Description

Responsibilities

 

• Define and implement the overall quality engineering and testing strategy.
• Lead QA/QE activities across the complete software development lifecycle.
• Review business and technical requirements to ensure testability, completeness, and clarity.
• Develop test plans, test scenarios, test cases, and acceptance criteria in collaboration with the team.
• Lead functional, integration, system, regression, exploratory, usability, and end-to-end testing.
• Establish and maintain test automation frameworks and standards.
• Identify suitable opportunities for automation and improve test coverage.
• Review automated test scripts and ensure code quality, maintainability, and reliability.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor test execution results, defect trends, test coverage, and release quality metrics.
• Lead defect triage, root-cause analysis, and resolution tracking.
• Ensure defects are properly documented, prioritized, assigned, and closed.
• Partner with developers to promote shift-left testing and early defect prevention.
• Support performance, security, API, database, and compatibility testing as required.
• Define and maintain quality gates for builds and releases.
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing and production validation activities.
• Provide release-readiness recommendations based on quality metrics and risk assessment.
• Ensure adherence to organizational QA standards, processes, and compliance requirements.
• Mentor QA engineers and promote knowledge sharing within the team.
• Continuously improve testing processes, tools, automation, and engineering practices.
  
   

Required Qualifications

 

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5 10 years of experience in software quality assurance, quality engineering, or software testing.
• 2+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Delivery Lead.
• Strong hands-on experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Experience leading cross-functional software development teams.
• Strong knowledge of software testing methodologies and quality engineering practices.
• Experience in both manual and automated testing.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools such as:
• Selenium,
• Cypress,
• Playwright,
• Appium,
• Rest Assured,
• Postman/Newman,
• Experience with API, web, mobile, integration, and regression testing.
• Experience with defect management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
• Experience with test management tools such as Zephyr, Xray, TestRail, or equivalent.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure Pipelines.
• Good understanding of Git and source-code management practices.
• Experience with SQL and database validation.
• Understanding of Agile metrics, test metrics, and release management.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, leadership, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree