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QA Lead

Location: Bengaluru / Hybrid

Experience: 6+ years in Software QA/Testing, including 2+ years in a team- handling/lead capacity Employment Type: Full-time

Summary

entomo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The company promotes and supports a diverse workforce at all levels across the Company. The Company ensures that its associates or potential hires, third-party support staff and suppliers are not discriminated against, directly or indirectly, as a result of their colour, creed, cast, race, nationality, ethnicity or national origin, marital status, pregnancy, age, disability, religion or similar philosophical belief, sexual orientation, gender or gender reassignment, etc We're looking for a QA Lead who can balance strong hands-on testing expertise with team leadership. You'll be responsible for driving quality across both manual and automated testing efforts, managing a team of QA engineers, and ensuring releases meet a high bar for reliability before they reach production.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead and manage a team of QA engineers — assign work, review test coverage, and ensure timely, quality delivery
- Own the test strategy for assigned projects, covering both manual and automated testing
- Design, review, and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks for functional, regression, and integration testing
- Plan and execute manual testing for areas where automation isn't feasible or cost-effective, including exploratory and edge-case testing
- Define test plans, test cases, and acceptance criteria in collaboration with product and engineering teams
- Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous delivery
- Track and report quality metrics — defect trends, test coverage,



release readiness — to engineering and product stakeholders
- Manage defect triage, prioritization, and closure, and drive root cause analysis on recurring issues
- Mentor QA engineers on both manual testing discipline and automation best practices
- Ensure test documentation and evidence are consistently maintained to support audit and compliance needs

Required Qualifications

- 6+ years of experience in Software QA/Testing, with at least 2+ years leading or handling a QA team
- Strong, demonstrated experience in both manual and automated testing — not automation-only or manual-only background
- Hands-on experience with test automation tools/frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Rest Assured, or equivalent)
- Solid understanding of API testing and its automation
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)
- Strong grasp of SDLC/Agile practices and QA's role within them
- Experience with test management and defect tracking tools (Jira, TestRail, Zephyr, or similar)
- Strong communication and people-management skills, with experience conducting reviews, mentoring, and prioritizing team workload

Preferred Qualifications

- Exposure to SOC 2 and/or ISO 27001 compliance requirements, particularly around test documentation, traceability, and audit evidence, is a robust plus
- Experience with performance/load testing tools (JMeter, k6, Gatling)
- Familiarity with testing in containerized or cloud-native (Kubernetes) environments
- Experience setting up quality gates within CI/CD pipelines

What We're Looking For

Someone who can operate as both a strong individual contributor in testing and a capable people leader — comfortable getting into the details of test cases and automation scripts, while also owning team output and stakeholder communication.

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