Quality Assurance Lead (Testing Team Lead) Full-Time | Mumbai, India | Senior | Leads the Manual Testing Team
Role QA Lead (Testing Team Lead)
Type Full-time
Experience 6+ years in QA, with 2+ years leading or mentoring a testing team
Reports to CEO (this role owns the QA function)
Leads The manual testing team across all products
Compensation ₹10–18 LPA, benchmarked

Arcitech is an enterprise AI automation and software development company building production
software for clients and for our own AI-native products — several of which handle payments,
children’s education data, recorded customer conversations, and healthcare information. Quality
is central to our reputation and, on these products, to our legal and compliance standing. are building out a serious QA function and need a senior leader to anchor it.

This is a QA Lead role with hands-on leadership role. You will lead our manual testing team and own the
testing craft across our highest-stakes products. owning test strategy, coverage standards, and QA process maturity at a senior level — that is
You will set how we test, raise the bar on the team’s test design and defect
quality, govern release readiness, and bring the structure (test plans, coverage tracking,
You remain hands-on — you still test the hardest, highest-risk areas yourself — while also
leading: setting standards, mentoring testers, and owning quality outcomes across the portfolio.

education, payments, children’s data), the customer-conversation analytics platform
(recorded calls, dashboards), the healthcare interpreting platform, and complex client
projects — prioritizing by risk and data sensitivity.
• matrices, and requirements traceability so testing is systematic and auditable rather than
Leading and mentoring the testing team. edge-case thinking, and defect reporting through review, coaching, and clear standards.
Identify weak testing and fix it.




• ships as “tested” without documented, executed coverage. Uphold QA independence from
Root-cause analysis on escaped defects. Quality reporting to leadership. Report quality status, risks, and trends across products
Define and own the QA process and test strategy for Tier 1 products and complex client
projects.
• Establish testing standards for the hard areas: payment and multi-currency flows,
role/permission boundaries and data isolation, sensitive- and regulated-data handling, and
Lead, mentor, and review the manual testing team; defect-reporting quality.
• protect and model QA
Coordinate testing across multiple products and complex client projects simultaneously.
• Maintain accurate records in Zoho Projects and Zoho Desk; Report quality metrics and risks to leadership on a regular cadence, Leadership & Quality Independence

You set the standard for quality independence and model it for the team. QA decisions are made
You own final QA sign-off and override
6+ years in QA, with 2+ years leading or mentoring a testing team. testing team, not just been a senior individual contributor.
• QA processes from the ground up — not just executed within someone else’s framework.
• Strong manual testing depth. You have owned go/no-go quality decisions
and led root-cause analysis on escaped defects.
• Complex-product experience. tenant data isolation, or sensitive/regulated data.
• You hold the quality line under pressure and protect your
Robust with defect/issue tracking and test management (Zoho, Jira, or similar).
• Experience in Websockets
• Mandatory experience in Automation for atleast 2 years (Python with Selenium)

need is manual).
• Domain experience in payments, healthcare, edtech, or products handling children’s data.
• Exposure to API testing and performance testing.

Own and build the QA function for high-stakes products going to market — real scope, not
Lead a team and set the standard, with leadership that genuinely backs QA

📌 Quality Assurance Team Lead (Mumbai)
🏢 ARCITECH
📍 Mumbai