QA Lead

Location: Indore, Pune
Experience: 8+ years (2+ years leading a QA team)
Work from Office Monday to Friday

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced QA Lead to own test strategy, automation and release quality on a large-scale enterprise platform delivered for a global automotive client.

The QA Lead will lead an offshore QA team within a distributed onsite/offshore model, partnering daily with US-based technical leads, developers and product stakeholders to ensure every release is well-tested, predictable and delivered on sprint commitments.

What You Will Do

Define and own the test strategy, test plans, estimates and quality gates for platform releases.

Design, build and maintain UI and API test automation frameworks (Selenium/Playwright, REST Assured) using Java or Python.

Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines so that regression runs are rapid, repeatable and trusted.

Lead, mentor and allocate work across the offshore QA team; review test cases and automation code to keep the bar high.

Drive functional, regression, integration,



system and UAT test cycles, including backend and data validation using SQL.

Run defect triage with developers and product, drive root-cause analysis and track fixes through to closure.

Track and report quality metrics — coverage, defect leakage, pass rates — and provide clear go/no-go recommendations for releases.

Participate in Agile ceremonies — sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups and reviews — providing realistic QA estimates and flagging risk early.

Document test approaches, frameworks and QA processes so that knowledge is transferable across the onsite and offshore team.

Collaborate proactively across time zones with US-based leads, developers and product, communicating quality status and blockers without needing to be chased.

A Note on Hands-On Leadership

This is a hands-on lead role. The QA Lead is expected to write and maintain automation alongside the team, not only coordin

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