Location: Pune, India

Experience Level: 7 - 10 Years

Role Type: Full time

About The Role

We are looking for a Product QA Lead who will take complete ownership of the product's quality, from the initial requirement and code commit all the way through release and production.

This is not just a testing role. We are looking for someone who can act as a technical QA architect, quality decision-maker, process owner, and people leader. You will be responsible for building a strong quality culture across the organization and ensuring that quality is considered at every stage of product development.

Responsibilities

- End-to-End Quality Ownership - Own product quality across requirements,

development, testing, release, and production.
- Scalable Automation - Build and maintain robust automation frameworks and integrate

them into CI/CD pipelines.
- Quality Gates &
- Release Decisions - Define release criteria, assess risks, and

confidently recommend or stop releases based on quality.

- Data-Driven Quality - Track metrics such as defect leakage, test coverage, automation

coverage, resolution time, and production issues.
- Systems Thinking - Look beyond functional testing and cover performance, security,

integrations, edge cases, reliability, and UX.
- Team Leadership &
- Mentorship - Lead, mentor,



and upskill QA engineers while

building a strong automation-focused QA team.

- Quality Advocacy - Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams, challenge quality

risks, and make quality a shared responsibility. Required Skills &

- Qualifications

Here are the 5 non-negotiable skills we are looking for:
- Strategic Automation &
- CI/CD Expertise: You know how to architect scalable

automated testing frameworks and bake them directly into the deployment pipeline.

- The Authority to Push Back: You have the diplomatic tact to hold engineering and

product teams accountable, and the confidence to halt a release if it isn't ready.
- Systems Thinking: You don't just hunt for broken buttons. You look at the whole

picture—performance under load, security, edge cases, and user experience.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: You rely on concrete metrics (defect leakage, test

coverage, time-to-resolution) over "gut feelings" to prove product health.
- Team Leadership &
- Mentorship: You have a proven track record of upskilling

engineers, transitioning manual testers to automation, and building high-performing QA squads.

Qualification

Bachelors or master's degree in computer science, information technology or a related field

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