Product QA Lead

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

1. End-to-End Quality Ownership – Own product quality across requirements,

development, testing, release, and production.

2. Scalable Automation – Build and maintain robust automation frameworks and integrate

them into CI/CD pipelines.

3. Quality Gates & Release Decisions – Define release criteria, assess risks, and

confidently recommend or stop releases based on quality.

4. Data-Driven Quality – Track metrics such as defect leakage,



test coverage, automation

coverage, resolution time, and production issues.

5. Systems Thinking – Look beyond functional testing and cover performance, security,

integrations, edge cases, reliability, and UX.

6. Team Leadership & Mentorship – Lead, mentor, and upskill QA engineers while

building a robust automation-focused QA team.

7. 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:

1. Strategic Automation & CI/CD Expertise: You know how to architect scalable

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

2. 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.

3. Systems

📌 Product QA Lead (Pune)
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