Location: Remote / Surat, Gujarat

Experience: 8+ Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

About the RoleKombee is looking for a Lead QA Engineer to own QA strategy, quality outcomes, and team leadership across client projects. This is a leadership-focused role requiring strong technical expertise, automation ownership, and experience driving contemporary QA practices.

Key Responsibilities

- Own QA strategy, processes, KPIs, release quality, and team outcomes.
- Lead, mentor, and develop QA Engineers.
- Architect scalable automation frameworks using Playwright, Appium, and WebdriverIO.
- Work with JavaScript/Node.js and BDD.
- Drive QA POCs and adoption of modern testing tools and AI-enabled QA practices.
- Plan and execute performance, load, and security testing.
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and establish quality gates.
- Reduce flaky tests and improve automation reliability.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and client stakeholders.
- Define testing strategies, methodologies, and quality standards.
- Drive continuous improvement through QA metrics and retrospectives.

Required Skills




- 8+ years of QA experience with proven leadership/team or account ownership.
- Strong experience with Playwright, Appium, WebdriverIO, JavaScript/Node.js, and BDD.
- Hands-on experience in performance, load, and security testing.
- Strong CI/CD and automation framework experience.
- Excellent understanding of SDLC, STLC, and Agile methodologies.
- Strong stakeholder and client communication skills.
- Proven experience mentoring and developing QA teams.
- Experience defining and owning QA processes.

Preferred Skills
- AI-driven QA tools and automation.
- OWASP ZAP, Burp, k6, or JMeter.
- Database testing and automation at scale.
- Client-facing or consulting experience.
- Experience representing QA capabilities in external forums or industry events.

Ideal Candidate
- A hands-on QA leader who can combine technical expertise, strategic thinking, team leadership, automation, and AI-driven testing to build a scalable quality engineering function.

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