QA Manager

Type Full-time

Location Vashi, Navi Mumbai (on-site)

Experience 6+ years in QA, with at least 3 years in a QA management role

₹10–15 LPA (approx. ₹83,333 – ₹1,25,000 per month), based on experience, team-

leadership track record, and demonstrated QA strategy depth across manual, automation,

and performance testing.

About Arcitech AI

Arcitech AI is an AI-native technology company building a portfolio of AI-driven SaaS products. Quality

is central to how we ship — our products handle real users and real data, and we hold a high bar on

what goes out. This role owns that bar across the QA function.

About the Role

We are looking for a QA Manager to own the QA function across Arcitech’s product portfolio. This is the

senior-most QA seat in the organization. You will set QA strategy across products, manage a team of

8–12 QA engineers (including the QA Lead who owns hands-on senior QA beneath you), run QA

across 7–8 concurrent projects, and be the QA counterpart to product and engineering leadership.

Reporting directly to the CEO, you are accountable for the release-readiness of everything Arcitech

ships.

This is a management role, not primarily a hands-on IC role. You are the strategist, the reviewer, and

the leader of the function. Hands-on senior QA — designing frameworks, running performance tests,

writing critical automation — sits with the QA Lead beneath you; your job is to set direction, hold the

bar, grow the team, and represent QA at the leadership table. That said, on the hardest technical

problems and the highest-risk releases, you will still be hands-on — particularly on new-product

launches and cross-product testing initiatives.

Prior experience running QA at a SaaS / IT product company is non-negotiable. Prior experience

genuinely managing a QA team of 8+ is non-negotiable. This is a role for someone who has already

done this work before, not someone stepping up into it for the first time.

You will report directly to the CEO.

Compensation for this role is ₹10–15 LPA (approximately ₹83,333 – ₹1,25,000 per month), based

on experience, team-leadership track record, and demonstrated QA strategy depth across

manual, automation, and performance testing.

Key Responsibilities

QA Strategy & Direction

• Own the QA vision and strategy across the SaaS portfolio.

• Define what gets tested manually, what gets automated, and what needs performance testing —

per product, per release.

• Own release-readiness decisions in partnership with product and engineering leadership.

• Set priorities across 7–8 concurrent projects; make trade-offs on coverage vs speed explicit.

Team Management

• Manage a team of 8–12 QA engineers, including the QA Lead as your direct report.

• Set clear expectations, run 1:1s and reviews,



and own performance conversations end-to-end.

• Grow the team’s technical depth in manual, Python + Selenium automation, and performance

testing.

• Own hiring for the QA team — who joins, at what level, and how they ramp up.

• Develop the QA Lead specifically as a senior report with their own career growth needs.

Quality Bar & Review

• Define and hold the QA quality bar across the whole function.

• Review the QA Lead’s work and the wider team’s work on strategic / high-stakes releases; catch

issues before ship.

• Own QA process, documentation, and best practices across the SaaS portfolio.

• Set the standard through your own review — not by out-executing the Lead.

Cross-Team Leadership & Business Communication

• Partner with engineering and product leadership on release scope, quality trade-offs, and CI/CD

integration.

• Represent QA to the CEO and leadership clearly — what’s shipping, what’s at risk, what needs

decisions.

• Communicate quality risks in business terms, not QA jargon — impact, likelihood, mitigation, cost.

• Coordinate with DevOps on CI/CD integration of automated tests across products.

Hands-On QA (Selective)

• Personally own the hardest technical problems on high-risk releases when it matters.

• Design or review critical automation frameworks and performance test strategies for new-product

launches.

• Delegate day-to-day execution to the Lead and the team — stay in strategy and review mode by

default.

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience: 6+ years in QA, with at least 3 years in a QA management role

• Team management (must-have, non-negotiable): proven experience managing a QA team of

8+, including at least 2+ years directly leading a team — real people-management with 1:1s,

reviews, hiring, and performance calls; not just informal mentoring

• SaaS / IT product background (must-have, non-negotiable): prior QA leadership at a

technology / SaaS / IT product company

• Manual QA depth (must-have): 6+ years of hands-on manual QA experience — deep, thorough

process across test planning, execution, defect management, no shortcuts

• Automation (must-have): 3+ years minimum, hands-on Python + Selenium (not Java). Real

frameworks you have built and led teams to build.

• Performance testing (must-have): hands-on with performance / load testing tools (JMeter,

Locust, K6,



or similar); can design, run, analyze

• QA strategy (must-have): genuine experience setting QA direction across multiple products or

product lines

• Multi-project (must-have): proven ability to run QA across 7–8 concurrent projects without

dropping quality

• CI/CD integration: hands-on with CI/CD integration of QA (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI);

driven CI adoption at team level

• Communication: transparent, senior communicator; can represent QA to the CEO and cross-functional

leadership

Nice to Have

• API testing depth (Postman, REST Assured with Python).

• SQL / database validation experience.

• Experience testing AI-driven products or non-deterministic outputs.

• Exposure to security-testing basics.

• Prior experience defining or scaling a QA function from small to mid-size.

• Experience with observability / monitoring integration for post-release quality signal.

The Ideal Candidate

• Has genuinely managed a QA team of 8+, and can point to what specifically improved under their

leadership.

• Has worked inside a technology / SaaS / IT product company for a meaningful part of their career.

• Is solid across all three testing disciplines — manual, automation, and performance — not just

one.

• Can balance strategy, review, team management, and selective hands-on work.

• Communicates well with the CEO and leadership; represents QA as a business function, not a

purely technical one.

• Runs a QA function with process and craft, not chaos and heroics.

Hiring Process

Our process is designed to assess QA strategy, real management ability, and communication:

• HR conversation — initial screen for fit, background, and communication.

• QA strategy conversation — with senior leadership on QA direction, coverage decisions, and

philosophy.

• Technical interview — framework design, automation approach, performance-testing depth, CI/CD

integration.

• Practical exercise — a QA scenario covering strategy across all three disciplines; you walk us

through your approach.

• Panel discussion — with engineering and product leadership on collaboration, release readiness,

and cross-team leadership.

• Final round with the CEO — a conversation on leadership, ownership, communication, and how

you’d run the function.

Why Join Arcitech AI

• Own the QA function at a fast-growing AI-native SaaS company.

• Report directly to the CEO — close to the decisions, no layers of middle management.

• Build the QA function as the products and team scale.

• Broad scope: manual, automation, performance, CI/CD integration, and release readiness across

the portfolio.

• Collaborative environment with Provident Fund and employee benefits.

📌 Quality Assurance Manager (India)
🏢 ARCITECH
📍 India