Role Description

Quality Engineering Lead (Automation &

- Quality Assurance)

Role: Quality Engineering Lead

Open Positions: 1

Experience: 7+ Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: Bengaluru

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced Quality Engineering Lead with a strong background in enterprise-scale test automation and quality engineering transformation. The ideal candidate will drive quality strategy, lead automation-first testing initiatives, establish scalable automation frameworks, and ensure high-quality delivery across Agile and Scaled Agile programs. This role requires a hands-on leader who can influence engineering teams, embed quality throughout the SDLC, and deliver measurable quality outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Quality Strategy &

- Leadership

- Define and drive the overall Quality Engineering and Test Automation strategy across enterprise delivery programs.
- Establish quality standards, governance models, quality gates, and release readiness criteria.
- Lead functional, automation, integration, API, regression, performance, and non-functional testing initiatives.
- Partner with business stakeholders, Product Owners, architects, and engineering leaders to embed quality early in the delivery lifecycle.

Automation Excellence
- Design, implement, and scale robust automation frameworks for large, multi-team delivery environments.
- Drive automation maturity through improved coverage, maintainability, reusability, execution efficiency, and CI/CD integration.
- Define automation architecture, coding standards, reusable components, reporting frameworks, and governance practices.
- Promote API-first testing, continuous testing, shift-left practices, and automation-driven quality assurance.

Delivery Governance &
- Quality Metrics

- Define and monitor KPIs including automation coverage, defect leakage, test effectiveness, execution success rates, and release quality metrics.
- Establish dashboards for quality reporting, risk visibility, and executive-level governance.
- Review test strategies,



defect trends, environment readiness, test data approaches, and overall delivery risks.
- Ensure transparent reporting of quality status, dependencies, risks, and mitigation plans.

Team Leadership &
- Mentoring

- Lead, mentor, and develop QA engineers, automation specialists, and quality practitioners.
- Drive best practices around automation design, coding standards, peer reviews, estimation, and testing methodologies.
- Foster a quality-first engineering culture across development and testing teams.
- Enable continuous improvement through coaching, knowledge sharing, and technical leadership.

Continuous Quality Engineering
- Promote CI/CD-aligned testing practices and automated quality validation.
- Support adoption of service virtualization, test data management, contract testing, and observability-driven quality metrics.
- Ensure compliance with security, audit, traceability, data privacy, and regulatory requirements.
- Champion defect prevention and proactive quality risk management.

Required Skills Automation &
- Quality Engineering

- Enterprise Test Automation Frameworks
- Functional &
- Regression Automation
- API Testing &
- Automation
- Quality Engineering Best Practices
- Test Strategy &
- Governance

Automation Tools &
- Technologies

- Selenium
- Playwright
- Cypress
- Rest Assured
- Postman / Newman
- Cucumber
- JUnit / TestNG

Programming &
- Scripting

- Java
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Python

DevOps &
- CI/CD

- Azure DevOps
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI/CD
- Continuous Testing Practices

Agile Delivery
- Agile &
- Scaled Agile Frameworks
- Multi-Squad Delivery Programs




- Sprint &
- Release Governance
- Cross-Functional Team Collaboration

Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
- Equivalent practical experience may be considered.
- Professional certifications such as ISTQB, SAFe, Agile, Scrum, or Automation Testing Certifications are preferred.

Preferred Experience
- Large-scale enterprise automation transformations.
- Banking, Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, or regulated industry environments.
- Performance testing using JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, K6, or equivalent tools.
- Cloud-native testing in Azure, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, or containerized platforms.
- Experience with Jira, Zephyr, Xray, qTest, ALM, or Azure DevOps Test Management.
- Exposure to accessibility testing, security testing, contract testing, and service virtualization.

Success Measures
- Increased automation coverage and reduced reliance on manual regression testing.
- Stable and scalable automation frameworks supporting enterprise delivery needs.
- Faster and more reliable test execution integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
- Improved release quality, defect prevention, and delivery predictability.
- Enhanced visibility through quality dashboards, metrics, and governance reporting.
- Solid engineering collaboration and adoption of shift-left quality practices.

Ideal Candidate Profile
- Strategic quality leader with hands-on automation expertise.
- Proven experience leading automation initiatives across multiple teams or enterprise programs.
- Robust stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to influence engineering teams and drive quality ownership across the organization.
- Passionate about building scalable, automation-first quality engineering practices.
- Results-oriented leader focused on continuous improvement and delivery excellence.

Skills Agile, Performance Testing, Test Automation

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