Job Title: QA Head

Experience: 10 15 years

We are hiring for QA Head who will own the end-to-end quality strategy for our fintech product suite, ensuring functional accuracy, security, regulatory compliance, and performance at scale. This is a leadership role combining hands-on technical depth with team building, process ownership, and cross-functional influence with Engineering, Product, Compliance, and Security teams.

Responsibilities:

- Define and implement the overall QA strategy, roadmap, processes and quality standards across products.
- Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing QA team.
- Establish and monitor QA metrics, KPIs, quality gates and release criteria.
- Drive both manual and automation testing practices across the organization.
- Ensure effective test planning, test case design, regression testing and defect management.
- Oversee API, database, integration, functional, system and end-to-end testing.
- Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, DevOps and Business teams throughout the SDLC.
- Ensure effective defect tracking, root-cause analysis and continuous improvement.
- Establish processes for performance, security, reliability and scalability testing.
- Drive CI/CD integration for automated testing and quality checks.
- Identify risks and quality gaps and provide mitigation plans.
- Review and improve existing QA processes, tools and methodologies.
- Manage QA resources, priorities and delivery timelines across multiple projects.
- Ensure compliance testing for financial regulations (RBI guidelines, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR/data privacy as applicable)
- Own testing strategy for payment flows, transaction reconciliation, ledger accuracy, and financial calculations
- Define and implement quality assurance processes for high-availability and business-critical applications.




- Establish best practices for test automation architecture, framework selection and maintenance.
- Work with Engineering and DevOps teams to improve deployment quality and release stability.
- Ensure adequate test coverage for critical business and payment scenarios.
- Lead QA planning and execution for major product releases, integrations and new features.

Required Skills:

- Strong experience in product-based organizations.
- Experience managing and mentoring QA teams.
- Strong knowledge of manual and automation testing methodologies.
- Experience with automation tools/frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium or equivalent.
- Robust understanding of API testing, SQL/database testing and integration testing.
- Experience with Jenkins/GitLab CI or similar CI/CD tools.
- Good understanding of Agile/Scrum, SDLC and STLC.
- Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter or equivalent.
- Strong understanding of defect management and tools such as Jira.
- Ability to work with senior stakeholders and drive quality initiatives across the organization.
- Fintech/BFSI/Payments domain experience is a strong plus
- Hands-on background in automation, API, and performance testing
- Working knowledge of compliance frameworks (PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, RBI guidelines)
- Understanding of payment gateways, payment processing, transaction lifecycle and reconciliation.
- Experience with test management and defect tracking tools.
- Understanding of security testing concepts, vulnerability assessment and secure SDLC.
- Strong understanding of database concepts, SQL queries and data validation.
- Ability to define and track automation coverage, defect leakage, test effectiveness, release quality and other QA metrics.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to drive QA transformation and establish a quality-first culture.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.

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