Description

Team Leadership & Practice Development

Lead, coach, and develop a team of QA practitioners embedded across delivery teams, ensuring consistent application of QA standards, methodologies, and tools.

Facilitate individual growth conversations, set development goals, and provide ongoing feedback and mentorship across the team.

Drive a culture of quality ownership, continuous improvement, and shared accountability.

Onboard current QA team members; establish expectations, tools access, and delivery team integration from day one.

Build team capacity by identifying skill gaps and supporting professional development plans aligned to the QA leveling framework.

Partner with US-based QA Practice Leads to align standards, share tooling and methodology advances, and build a globally consistent QA capability that scales across the enterprise.

Test Strategy & Delivery Oversight

Review and advise on test plans, automation coverage, and quality approaches across delivery squads to ensure alignment, completeness, and risk-based prioritization.





Own overall quality posture across programs — escalate systemic risks, monitor defect trends, and drive corrective action when patterns emerge.

Ensure QA is engaged at the start of every initiative, upgrade, and release planning conversation — not informed after delivery is underway.

Facilitate cross-role test planning sessions; ensure acceptance criteria are testable, risk-informed, and linked to Jira Xray test cases before development begins.

Champion shift-left practices across teams: proactive defect prevention through early requirements engagement, Behavior Driven Development, and risk surfacing during refinement.

Automation & Tooling

Guide delivery teams on scalable automation practices using the enterprise test automation framework (e.g. Playwright, Opkey).

Monitor automation coverage across teams; ensure automation is planned at project kickoff, not retrofitted at release.

Drive adoption of AI-assisted test crea

📌 Lead QA (Bengaluru)
🏢 Burns & McDonnell India
📍 Bengaluru