Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced and technically solid QA Lead (Manual & Automation) with 4+ years of hands-on experience to join our engineering team. You will play a critical role in driving our quality assurance strategy, architecting scalable test automation frameworks, and executing high-impact manual exploratory testing.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with product management, development, DevOps, and security teams in a fast-paced Agile environment to establish robust testing standards, optimize regression feedback loops, and ensure high-quality, resilient software delivery.

What You’ll Do

QA Leadership & Quality Strategy: Lead end-to-end testing efforts across web, mobile, and API layers throughout the SDLC. Define test strategies, author comprehensive test plans, establish quality metrics/KPIs, and make data-driven release readiness decisions.

Test Automation Engineering: Design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade test automation frameworks for UI and API layers.



Integrate automated suites into modern CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and rapid feedback loops.

Manual & Exploratory Testing: Perform deep exploratory, functional, regression, edge-case, and smoke testing for complex microservices and feature rollouts. Ensure end-to-end user workflows function seamlessly across environments.

API & Integration Testing: Conduct thorough RESTful API testing, contract validation, and integration testing using tools like Postman, REST Assured, or Playwright API modules.

Defect Management & Root Cause Analysis: Identify, document, track, and triage bugs using Jira. Participate in release management, validate pre-production builds, perform post-deployment verification, and execute root cause analysis (RCA) on production incidents.

Security & Compliance Testing: Collaborate with DevSecOps to incorporate basic security testing standards, data privacy validation, and vulnerability checks into test plans, upholding enterprise da

📌 QA Lead (Hyderabad)
🏢 databeat.io media
📍 Hyderabad