Lead QA Automation Engineer – Quality Engineering

Location:
Trivandrum, Kerala

Work Model:
Initially office-based; eventually minimum 3 days/week hybrid

Experience:
9–12 Years

Industry:
Banking / SaaS / Financial Technology

About the Role

We are looking for a
Lead QA Automation Engineer / Quality Engineering professional
who thinks like a software engineer and is passionate about building quality into enterprise software.

This is
not a traditional QA management role
. The ideal candidate will be hands-on with automation, framework architecture, API and backend testing, CI/CD, and modern quality engineering practices.

You will play a key role in defining the organization's automation strategy, improving engineering quality, and building scalable solutions for mission-critical applications.

Key Responsibilities
- Define and implement the
Automation and Quality Engineering strategy
.
- Architect and develop
scalable, maintainable automation frameworks
.
- Drive automation across
API, backend, database, integration, and end-to-end testing
.




- Integrate automated testing and
quality gates into CI/CD pipelines
.
- Establish meaningful
quality, risk, and engineering metrics
.
- Implement continuous testing practices across the software development lifecycle.
- Partner closely with
Engineering, Product, Architecture, and DevOps teams
.
- Conduct technical and code reviews for automation solutions.
- Mentor and guide QA Automation and Quality Engineering professionals.
- Drive improvements in
performance, resilience, scalability, and reliability testing
.
- Identify opportunities for intelligent automation and
AI-enabled Quality Engineering
.
- Continuously evaluate and adopt contemporary testing tools, frameworks, and engineering practices.

Required Technical Skills
- 9–12 years
of experience in Software Quality Engineering, QA Automation, SDET, or related engineering roles.
- Strong hands-on experience with automation frameworks and programming.
- Experience with one o

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