Job Description

We are hiring a senior Quality Engineering leader who owns end-to-end quality, release sign-off, and automation strategy across our platform — including AI agents, web applications, APIs, and databases .

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This role blends:

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- Quality Ownership
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- Automation & Agentic Testing Leadership
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- Release & Go-Live Authority
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- Product-aligned execution (PO-style ownership)
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You will start by establishing strong manual and exploratory testing foundations , then systematically drive automation-first quality , including AI agent validation, critic agents, eval frameworks, and safety guardrails .

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This is not a passive QA role.

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You are accountable for production quality .

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Key Responsibilities

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End-to-End Quality Ownership & Release Sign-Off

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- Own quality outcomes across the full delivery lifecycle
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- Act as release authority , driving go/no-go decisions
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- Define and enforce quality gates across features, agents, and releases
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- Partner with Product and Engineering to balance speed and quality
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- Reduce production defects through proactive automation and validation
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Automation-First Quality Strategy

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- Define and own the automation roadmap (UI, API, DB, agentic systems)
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- Build and maintain hybrid automation frameworks using Python
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- Drive CI/CD-integrated automated testing pipelines
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- Ensure automation coverage continuously replaces repetitive manual testing
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- Guide aligned Quality Engineers in automation implementation
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Agentic AI & LLM Quality Engineering

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- Own quality for AI agents, tool calls, and multi-step workflows
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- Validate:
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- Agent behavior & reasoning paths
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- Tool invocation correctness
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- Hallucinations & unsafe outputs
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- RAG accuracy and grounding
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- Define and execute agent evaluation (evals) frameworks
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- Collaborate with Critic Engineers to design:
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- Critic agents
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- Automated agent validation
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- Benchmark datasets & scoring rubrics
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- Lead innovation in agent testing methodologies
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Manual, Exploratory & Scenario-Based Testing

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- Drive high-quality manual and exploratory testing where automation is not yet viable
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- Design test scenarios covering edge cases, failure modes, and real-world flows
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- Ensure strong test data strategies and defect lifecycle management
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- Use manual testing strategically — not as a long-term crutch
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Product-Aligned Ownership

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- Work as a quality-focused Product Owner partner
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- Align closely with Product Managers on acceptance criteria and readiness
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- Participate in sprint planning, refinement, and release discussions
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- Ensure quality is embedded into feature design, not added later
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Cross-Team Collaboration

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- Work closely with:
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- Product
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- Engineering
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- Agentic Ops
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- RAG & AI teams
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- Act as the single quality voice across delivery discussions
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- Mentor and guide aligned Quality Engineers and contributors
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Required Skills & Experience

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Quality & Manual Testing

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- 5+ years of strong hands-on experience in manual and exploratory testing
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- Deep understanding of SDLC/STLC, test planning, traceability, and defect management
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- Solid API testing experience (Postman, REST clients)
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Automation (UI, API, Database)

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- Strong experience in:
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- UI automation (Playwright / Selenium / Cypress)
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- API automation (pytest, requests, REST Assured)
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- Database validation using SQL
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- Experience designing end-to-end automation frameworks
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- CI/CD integration (Git Hub Actions, Git Lab, Jenkins)
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Agentic AI & LLM Testing

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- Hands-on experience testing LLMs and AI agents
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- Understanding of:
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- Agent workflows
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- Tool calling
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- RAG pipelines
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- Guardrails & safety validation
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- Experience designing or executing eval frameworks
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Python, MCP & Cloud

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- Strong Python skills for automation, utilities, and validation
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- Understanding of MCP servers, agent tools, and orchestration
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- Cloud exposure (GCP / AWS / Azure) in QA or automation contexts
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What Success Looks Like

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- Releases go out predictably and confidently
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- Automation coverage grows sprint after sprint
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- Agent failures are caught before production
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- Quality becomes a shared responsibility , led by you
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- Manual testing effort reduces as automation and agent critics mature
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Why This Role Is Special

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- Owns release sign-off
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- Drives automation-first quality
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- Shapes how agentic AI is tested
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- Works closely with Product & CTO
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- Leads innovation in AI testing
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- Not a test executor role
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- Not a checkbox QA position
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📌 Product-Aligned Agentic Quality Engineering Lead (Automation & Agentic AI) (India)
🏢 Bridge AI
📍 India