QA & Test Engineering Lead (SaaS, API-First, Automation-Driven)

Experience: 10 + Years (Mandatory)

Location : Bengaluru

Role Overview

- This role is strictly for candidates in the 10+ years experience band.
- We are looking for a highly experienced QA & Test Engineering Lead to own quality strategy and execution for a cloud-native, headless, API-first SaaS product.
- This role carries end-to-end responsibility for test strategy definition, automation architecture, and release quality governance, ensuring every release meets high quality, reliability, and scalability standards.

Key Responsibilities

- Define and own overall quality and test strategy for a multi-tenant SaaS platform.
- Establish quality benchmarks, coverage standards, and release readiness criteria.
- Act as the final quality authority for customer-facing releases.
- Architect and maintain scalable automation frameworks.
- Ensure automation is embedded into CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborate closely with Full Stack and Cloud & DevOps Engineers.
- Mentor and guide QA/Test Engineers.

Required Experience

- Total experience:



1012 years in QA/Test/Quality Engineering roles.
- Proven leadership of test strategy and automation for SaaS platforms.
- Hands-on ownership of automation frameworks and release quality.
- Candidates outside the 10–12 years band may not be considered.

Technical Skills

Test Automation:

API Testing: REST Assured, Postman, Karate

UI / E2E Testing: Playwright, Cypress, Selenium

Test Frameworks: JUnit, TestNG, pytest

SaaS & API-First:

Microservices and distributed systems testing

Contract testing, schema validation, API versioning

Cloud & DevOps:

CI/CD integration

AWS-based test environments

Docker-based test execution

Nice to Have

B2B or enterprise SaaS testing experience

Performance testing tools (k6, JMeter, Gatling)

Security testing awareness (OWASP)

Agile/Scrum experience

Soft Skills

Robust leadership and ownership mindset

Ability to influence senior stakeholders

Excellent communication and documentation skills

Data-driven and system-thinking approach

📌 QA Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Tata Elxsi
📍 Bengaluru