QA Senior Lead (Contract/FTE)

Experience: 11–15 Years

Company - LTI Mindtree

Location: Kolkata

Budget: As per Market Standards

Role Overview

We are looking for a QA Senior Lead to lead quality assurance for a large-scale, cloud-native media content platform handling massive volumes of media data including articles, videos, and audio. The role will focus on API testing, data validation, automation, performance testing, and QA strategy, while leading the team and driving quality across the complete data lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Lead and mentor QA engineers and define the overall QA strategy.

Drive Shift-Left testing and integrate quality practices across the SDLC.

Own end-to-end testing for data ingestion, processing, storage, and API consumption.

Test ingestion workflows, SNS/SQS, scheduled jobs, and REST APIs including keyword, category, and semantic search.

Perform large-scale validation of JSON datasets using AWS S3, Athena, SQL, and Glue Crawlers.

Validate metadata, mappings, date logic, filtering, and data accuracy across multiple sources.

Design and maintain scalable automation frameworks using JavaScript/Jest and/or Python/Pytest.

Integrate API automation and JSON schema validation into CI/CD pipelines.

Design and execute high-volume load and performance testing using Locust.

Analyse bottlenecks across ALB, ECS, downstream services, API latency, and search performance.





Build and monitor QA/observability dashboards using Current Relic and OpenSearch.

Maintain test strategies, edge cases, performance reports, and QA documentation in Confluence.

Collaborate with Product, Engineering, DevOps, and other stakeholders to resolve complex issues.

Technical Skills

Mandatory

API / Microservices Testing

REST Assured

REST APIs & JSON validation

Strong backend/API automation experience

JavaScript and/or Python

AWS & Cloud:

AWS S3, Lambda, API Gateway

ECS, ALB, SQS, SNS

Athena, Glue Crawlers

OpenSearch / Elasticsearch

Testing & Automation:

API & Microservices Testing

Automation Framework Development

Jest / Pytest

Locust for Load & Performance Testing

CI/CD pipelines and AWS CodeBuild

Good to Have

AWS Bedrock / Cohere

AI-powered semantic search and embeddings

Vector-based retrieval / Vector Databases

Docker & Kubernetes

Contract Testing / Service Virtualization

Graph Databases

LLM-based test case generation

Key Requirements

Proven experience as a QA Lead / Senior QA Engineer handling distributed systems and large-scale data/ETL pipelines.

Strong experience in API automation, data validation, and performance testing.

Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Strong stakeholder communication and team mentoring experience.

Ability to work in a dynamic, cross-functional environment.

Share CVs at

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Work Location: In person

📌 QA Senior Lead (Kolkata)
🏢 Mayuri The Manvi Pvt.Ltd.
📍 Kolkata