QUALITY ENGINEER LEAD

Overview Of Role

- Lead the design and development of scalable, maintainable test automation frameworks using Tosca,

Cypress, Selenium, Playwright, or similar automation technologies, with reusable and configurable components.

- Design and execute end-to-end automation across APIs, web services, GUI applications, and

microservices, with strong hands-on experience in API automation.

- Develop and maintain automation solutions using Python and/or other relevant programming languages,

following coding standards, framework best practices, and maintainable design principles.

- Define risk-based test strategies, test cases, execution plans, automation coverage, and quality metrics

across functional, integration, regression, and performance testing.

- Validate databases, SQL results, JSON responses, API contracts, schemas, and end-to-end data flows to

ensure data integrity and application quality.

- Integrate automated testing into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and support continuous testing,

deployment, reporting, and quality gates.

- Lead defect analysis, troubleshooting, test reporting, root-cause analysis, and continuous quality

improvements across applications and data products.

- Collaborate with Product, Development, Data, API, Architecture, and Business teams in a cross-functional

Agile environment, while mentoring QA engineers and driving consistent automation practices.

Required Qualifications

- 6+ years of experience in Quality Engineering and test automation, including hands-on experience

designing and implementing automation frameworks.

- Strong experience with one or more automation frameworks such as Tosca, Cypress, Selenium,

Playwright, or similar technologies, with the ability to evaluate and implement appropriate automation approaches.

- Strong experience with API/REST and microservices automation,



including validation of API responses,

contracts, schemas, and integration flows.

- Strong Python programming skills and understanding of automation framework design, reusable

components, and maintainable test automation practices.

- Robust SQL skills and experience validating database data, data transformations, and end-to-end data

flows.

- Experience with functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing, including riskbased

test planning and automation strategy.

- Experience integrating automated testing with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and working with

Git/GitHub or similar version-control tools.

- Experience with Tosca modules, Test Case Design, Test Plans, Execution, and Requirements Management,

Or Equivalent Capabilities In Other Automation Frameworks.

- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum practices and experience working with cross-functional engineering

and business teams.

- Strong communication, analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, with experience providing

technical guidance and mentoring to QA engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

- Tosca Automation Specialist Level 1/2 certification.

- Experience with Tosca Service Virtualization, qTest, CI agents, or similar test management and service

virtualization tools.

- Hands-on experience with Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, or other modern web automation frameworks.

- Experience with test data management, service virtualization, and automated test environment

management.

- Experience with JIRA, Azure DevOps, or similar test and work management platforms.

- Experience automating complex end-to-end GUI, API, microservices, and data-driven applications.

- Experience with performance testing tools and optimization of large-scale automated test suites.

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

📌 QA Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Bridgestone Americas
📍 Bengaluru