Description
Job Summary
We are looking for a Software Engineer Test Lead with strong hands-on experience in both manual and automation testing. The ideal candidate will lead QA activities, define test strategy, improve automation coverage, validate non-functional requirements, and ensure high-quality product releases.
This role requires solid experience with C#, Selenium, BDD frameworks, performance testing, SQL Server, Azure DevOps/VSTS, and Agile/Scrum delivery. The candidate should bring an automation mindset while remaining strong in manual testing, exploratory testing, defect analysis, and release validation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end QA activities for assigned product areas, sprints, and releases.
- Analyze requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and client issues to define effective test coverage.
- Lead the group of 5 or more QA engineers.
- Create and review test plans, test cases, test data, traceability matrix, and test execution reports.
- Perform and guide manual testing across functional, regression, integration, exploratory, smoke, sanity,



and end-to-end scenarios.
- Drive automation strategy, framework enhancement, reusable utilities, automation best practices, and regression coverage improvement.
- Create, maintain, and execute BDD-based test scenarios aligned with business requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Define and validate application stability benchmarks, quality gates, release readiness criteria, performance expectations, and NFRs.
- Perform API testing, backend validation, database validation, and performance testing as part of end-to-end quality assurance.
- Manage test execution, defect tracking, QA reporting, and release status using standard QA/test management tools.
- Analyze defects, identify root causes, work with developers through resolution/retesting, and mentor QA engineers on testing practices, automation, defect analysis, and quality standards.
- Communicate QA status, risks, blockers, defect trends,

📌 Software Test Engineer Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Trintech Solutions
📍 Bengaluru