Job Description

- Lead QA strategy across squads using shift-left, risk-based testing, BDD/TDD, and contract testing approaches

- Define testing standards, governance models, and quality metrics (readiness gates, defect SLAs, QA OKRs)

- Own end-to-end automation strategy covering UI, API, component, and regression suites integrated with CI/CD

- Maintain test architecture roadmap including frameworks, environments, test data, and observability

- Ensure comprehensive functional and non-functional test coverage

- Plan and execute performance, scalability, resilience, and security testing

- Partner with Product, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and Compliance teams to balance quality, risk, and speed

- Provide dashboards, release readiness reports, and recommendations to leadership

- Lead and mentor multidisciplinary QA teams (automation, functional, performance, security)

- Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives and incident reviews

- Coach squads on acceptance criteria, testability, and Definition of Ready/Done

Qualifications
- Strong leadership in QA strategy, governance, and automation frameworks

- Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript or Python

- Solid SQL skills (MySQL, PostgreSQL)



for backend and data validation

- Hands-on experience with Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman, REST Assured

- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum, DevOps, and shift-left practices

- Knowledge of performance and security testing tools (JMeter/k6, OWASP ZAP)

- Experience with Git, Jenkins, and CI/CD pipelines

- Exposure to AWS cloud and Kubernetes for test environment management

- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder collaboration skills

Experience
- 10+ years in QA/testing with 3+ years leading centralized or cross-product testing teams

- Proven experience driving enterprise automation strategies

- Experience managing large QA teams in Agile environments

- Hands-on background in automation, performance, and security testing

- Experience supporting cloud-based test infrastructures

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📌 Automation Test Lead (Chennai)
🏢 Optimum Solutions
📍 Chennai