We are hiring a senior Quality Engineering leader who owns end-to-end quality, release sign-off, and automation strategy across our platform — including AI agents, web applications, APIs, and databases.

This role blends

Quality Ownership

Automation &

- Agentic Testing Leadership

Release &

- Go-Live Authority

Product-aligned execution (PO-style ownership)

You will start by establishing strong manual and exploratory testing foundations, then systematically drive automation-first quality, including AI agent validation, critic agents, eval frameworks, and safety guardrails.

This is not a passive QA role.

You are accountable for production quality.

Key Responsibilities

End-to-End Quality Ownership &

- Release Sign-Off

Own quality outcomes across the full delivery lifecycle

Act as release authority, driving go/no-go decisions

Define and enforce quality gates across features, agents, and releases

Partner with Product and Engineering to balance speed and quality

Reduce production defects through proactive automation and validation

Automation-First Quality Strategy

Define and own the automation roadmap (UI, API, DB, agentic systems)

Build and maintain hybrid automation frameworks using Python

Drive CI/CD-integrated automated testing pipelines

Ensure automation coverage continuously replaces repetitive manual testing

Guide aligned Quality Engineers in automation implementation

Agentic AI &

- LLM Quality Engineering

Own quality for AI agents, tool calls, and multi-step workflows

Validate

Agent behavior & reasoning paths

Tool invocation correctness





Hallucinations & unsafe outputs

RAG accuracy and grounding

Define and execute agent evaluation (evals) frameworks

Collaborate with Critic Engineers to design:

Critic agents

Automated agent validation

Benchmark datasets & scoring rubrics

Lead innovation in agent testing methodologies

Manual, Exploratory &

- Scenario-Based Testing

Drive high-quality manual and exploratory testing where automation is not yet viable

Design test scenarios covering edge cases, failure modes, and real-world flows

Ensure strong test data strategies and defect lifecycle management

Use manual testing strategically — not as a long-term crutch

Product-Aligned Ownership

Work as a quality-focused Product Owner partner

Align closely with Product Managers on acceptance criteria and readiness

Participate in sprint planning, refinement, and release discussions

Ensure quality is embedded into feature design, not added later

Cross-Team Collaboration

Work closely with

Product

Engineering

Agentic Ops

RAG &

- AI teams

Act as the single quality voice across delivery discussions

Mentor and guide aligned Quality Engineers and contributors

Required Skills &

- Experience

Quality &





- Manual Testing

5+ years of strong hands-on experience in manual and exploratory testing

Deep understanding of SDLC/STLC, test planning, traceability, and defect management

Robust API testing experience (Postman, REST clients)

Automation (UI, API, Database)

Strong experience in

UI automation (Playwright / Selenium / Cypress)

API automation (pytest, requests, REST Assured)

Database validation using SQL

Experience designing end-to-end automation frameworks

CI/CD integration (Git Hub Actions, Git Lab, Jenkins)

Agentic AI &

- LLM Testing

Hands-on experience testing LLMs and AI agents

Understanding of

Agent workflows

Tool calling

RAG pipelines

Guardrails & safety validation

Experience designing or executing eval frameworks

Python, MCP &

- Cloud

Strong Python skills for automation, utilities, and validation

Understanding of MCP servers, agent tools, and orchestration

Cloud exposure (GCP / AWS / Azure) in QA or automation contexts

What Success Looks Like

Releases go out predictably and confidently

Automation coverage grows sprint after sprint

Agent failures are caught before production

Quality becomes a shared responsibility, led by you

Manual testing effort reduces as automation and agent critics mature

Why This Role Is Special

Owns release sign-off

Drives automation-first quality

Shapes how agentic AI is tested

Works closely with Product &

- CTO

Leads innovation in AI testing

Not a test executor role

Not a checkbox QA position

📌 Product-aligned Agentic Quality Engineering Lead (automation & Agentic Ai) (Mumbai)
🏢 Bridge AI
📍 Mumbai