QA Automation Lead / Lead QA Engineer Playwright & TypeScript

Bangalore

8+ years of Over all exp

Key Responsibilities of QA (Automation & Manual):

- Strategy & Planning: Develop and maintain comprehensive test plans, test cases, and automation frameworks.
- Automation Leadership: Design, develop, and maintain automation scripts (e.g., Type script) for frontend and API testing.
- [strong style="font-weight: bolder;"]Manual Testing Oversight: Direct exploratory, usability, and functional testing to catch defects missed by automation.
- Team Management & Mentorship: Guide, mentor, and train junior manual and automation engineers on best practices.
- Collaboration & Reporting: Work with developers and stakeholders to report test progress, product quality, and critical defects using tools like Jira.
- CI/CD Integration: Integrate automated tests into Continuous Integration (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure efficient delivery.
- Defect Management: Perform root cause analysis on failures and manage the bug life cycle.
- Sprint Planning & Backlog Grooming
- Requirement Analysis: Review user stories and actively participate in "three amigos" sessions (Developer, Product Owner, and QA) to define clear, testable acceptance criteria.
- Test Estimation: Estimate the time and effort required for manual testing, test data preparation, and defect logging.
- Risk Identification: Proactively highlight potential edge cases, risks, and dependencies early in the sprint.
- Test Design & Execution
- Test Case Creation: Design and document detailed, reusable test cases and update the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
- Defect Management & Collaboration
- Bug Triage: Log reproducible,



detailed defect reports in tools like ADO and collaborate with developers during triage meetings to prioritize fixes.
- Regression & Retesting: Verify bug fixes and run targeted regression tests to ensure current code changes haven't broken existing functionalities.
- Quality Advocacy: Promote a culture where quality is a shared, team-wide responsibility rather than a bottleneck handled solely by QA.
- Agile Ceremonies & Continuous Improvement
- Daily Stand-ups: Provide updates on testing progress, unblock developers, and flag any risks that might impact sprint velocity.
- Sprint Retrospectives: Suggest improvements to the agile testing process, advocate for better tooling or pipelines, and help optimize the team's workflow.
- Sprint Demos & UAT Support: Assist the Product Owner and business stakeholders in evaluating software against the user story's original goals during sprint reviews.
- Test Automation & Technical Expertise: Oversee the development of automated testing frameworks and scripts to improve testing efficiency.
- Collaboration: Act as a single point of contact between testers, developers, business analysts, and stakeholders, providing test estimates and results reporting.
- Environment & Data Management:



Oversee the setup of testing environments and ensure appropriate test data is available.

Key Skills for the Role:

- Technical: Proficiency in Play wright and Type scripts
- Methodology: Strong knowledge of Agile, DevOps, and QA methodologies.
- Soft Skills: Leadership, communication, mentoring, and strategic planning.
- Proficiency in manual and automated testing tools.

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