QA Team Lead

Overview

We are looking for an experienced and motivated QA Team Lead to drive quality initiatives across our software development lifecycle. This role is responsible for leading a team of QA engineers, establishing testing strategies, ensuring product reliability, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software at scale.

Key Responsibilities

  Team Leadership & Management

• Lead, mentor, and support a team of QA engineers (manual and/or automation).
• Define clear goals, provide regular feedback, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Manage team workload, priorities, and resource planning.
  
  Quality Strategy & Process
   
• Define and implement QA strategies, test frameworks, and best practices.
• Ensure test coverage across functional, regression, integration, and performance testing.
• Drive automation efforts to improve efficiency and reduce manual overhead.
• Champion quality throughout the development lifecycle (shift-left testing).
  
  Collaboration & Communication
   
• Work closely with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to align on requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Represent QA in planning meetings, sprint reviews, and release management.
• Act as the point of escalation for quality-related issues.
   

Execution & Delivery

• Oversee test planning, execution, and reporting.
• Ensure defects are tracked, triaged, and resolved in a timely manner.
• Monitor and report on product quality metrics and team performance.
• Contribute to release readiness and risk assessments.
   

Requirements

• Proven experience as a QA Engineer with at least 2+ years in a leadership or lead role.
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, tools, and processes (manual and automation).
• Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, JUnit, TestNG, etc.).
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.
• Experience with test management and bug tracking tools (e.g., Jira, Zephyr,).
• Ability to balance technical leadership with people management.
   

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with performance, or security testing.
• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS).
• Background in mentoring or training junior engineers.
• Exposure to analytics and quality metrics dashboards.