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 settings

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 (India)
🏢 Tata Elxsi
📍 India