How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities)

Test Architecture and Automation

- Design and evolve scalable, maintainable mobile test automation frameworks

- Define automation strategy across UI, API, and integration layers

- Build robust test suites for functional, regression, performance, and reliability testing

- Ensure high test coverage with optimized execution time

Technical Leadership

- Lead and mentor QA/SDET engineers; enforce best practices and coding standards

- Conduct code reviews for test automation and contribute to production code quality

- Partner with engineering teams to improve testability, observability, and debugging

- Drive adoption of shift-left testing and quality-first mindset

CI/CD and DevOps Integration

- Architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automated test execution gates

- Integrate tests into pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI

- Optimize pipelines for speed, reliability, and scalability

Quality Strategy and Execution

- Define test plans, strategies, and quality metrics (KPIs)

- Lead risk assessment and ensure coverage for critical user journeys

- Oversee cross-device, cross-platform testing (real devices, emulators, cloud farms)

- Implement test data management and setting strategies

Cross-functional collaboration

- Work closely with Product, Engineering, and DevOps teams

- Influence design decisions to ensure high-quality, testable features

- Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release readiness

What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)

- 7+ years of experience in QA/SDET, with strong focus on mobile applications

- Expert-level programming skills in Java, Kotlin, Swift, Python, or JavaScript

- Deep experience with mobile automation tools:

- Appium (cross-platform)

- Espresso (Android)

- XCUITest (iOS)

- WebdriverIO

- Strong experience in building custom automation frameworks from scratch

- Solid understanding of API testing (REST/GraphQL)



and tools like RestAssured/Postman

- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices

- Proficiency in Git and version control workflows

- Strong knowledge of test design techniques, SDLC, and Agile methodologies

Behavioral Competencies

- Lead initiatives with high accountability, create a collaborative environment with a solution-based approach.

- Serve as a trusted advisor and mentor for the team offering technical advice.

- Ability to communicate with precision, engaging team and stakeholders to build trust and reliable working relationships across cross-functional teams and geographies enabling organizational alignment.

- Ability to set priorities with the team by understanding interdependence, inspiring team members with consistent focus, quality output, and timelines.

- Constantly keep oneself updated on current technology & trends to drive innovative decisions through piloting forward-thinking approaches to complex problems in one’s own area of work.

- Inquisitive to understand customer priorities and business challenges while creating value for technical solutions.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

- Experience with BDD frameworks (Cucumber, SpecFlow)

- Hands-on experience with cloud testing platforms (BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, Firebase Test Lab)

- Exposure to performance testing (JMeter, k6, Gatling)

- Experience with contract testing and service virtualization

- Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools (e.g., ELK, Datadog)

- Knowledge of security testing practices for mobile apps

Key Competencies

- Leadership and mentorship mindset

- Strong system design and architectural thinking

- Excellent debugging and root-cause analysis skills

- Ability to influence without authority

- Strategic thinking with attention to detail

What Success Looks Like

- Highly stable and scalable automation framework adopted across teams

- Reduced regression cycle time and faster releases

- Improved defect detection earlier in the SDLC

- Strong quality culture across engineering teams

📌 Lead Quality Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Delta Technology Hub
📍 Bengaluru