Responsibilities:

- Lead Quality Initiatives: Set quality standards and best practices across UI, API, performance, and scalability testing
- Framework Development: Design, build, and maintain robust test automation frameworks for UI and API testing
- Code & Architecture Reviews: Conduct code reviews for junior engineers, guide them in understanding the impact of code changes, and enforce scalable automation patterns
- Shift-Left Testing: Drive early quality practices by embedding testing in the design and development phase; ensure automation catches bugs as early as possible
- Performance & Scalability: Partner with product and engineering teams to validate scalability, performance, and infrastructure-level quality
- Micro frontend & DB Expertise: Provide technical quality insights on microfrontend architecture and databases (MongoDB, Firebase, etc.)
- Mentorship: Inspire, mentor, and guide the QA/SDET team to continuously improve their technical skills and testing mindset
- Innovation in Testing: Encourage new approaches beyond traditional testing methods, focusing on efficiency, faster delivery, and minimal bug leakage
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with developers, PMs, DevOps, and product stakeholders to ensure quality is owned across the product lifecycle
- RCA:



Drive RCA for all prod issues and plug the defect leakage gaps

Requirements:

- 7+ years of experience in software testing and automation, with at least 3+ years in a lead or senior role
- Proven experience building and scaling automation frameworks for both UI and API
- Solid coding skills in languages commonly used for test automation (e.g., JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java)
- Solid understanding of performance, scalability, and infrastructure testing
- Hands-on experience with microfrontend architectures and databases like MongoDB and Firebase
- Experience conducting code reviews and mentoring team members
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and integrating automation for continuous testing
- Proven experience managing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for large-scale applications. Ability to influence product architecture and design with a quality-first mindset
- Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to motivate and inspire a team
- Customer-first approach: ensuring quality translates to real-world reliability and user experience
- Experience in developing tools which helped QA org to improve the productivity

📌 Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (India)
🏢 Zealant Consulting Group
📍 India