XPO India Shared Services

Lead Engineer, Technology Quality Assurance

Location: Pune/Hyderabad

Experience: 9+ Years

Scope: Multi-Project / Multi-Team Oversight

Role Overview The QA Lead – Automation is a high-impact technical leadership role within the QA Center of Excellence (QA-CoE). This position is responsible for setting the technical vision, governance, and long-term roadmap for test automation across multiple product streams.

Core Responsibilities & Success Indicators
Technical Driver & Mentorship
Serve as the primary technical authority for the test automation organization.
Assess team technical maturity, identify skill gaps, and execute structured capability-building programs.
Coach engineers on advanced framework design, clean coding practices, debugging, and continuous execution.
Build a culture of psychological safety, ownership, and engineering excellence.
Automation Strategy & Governance
Formulate and execute a long-term, scalable automation roadmap aligned with QA-CoE standards.
Standardize tooling, design patterns, repositories, reporting, and execution settings.
Architect multi-layered test coverage.
Champion shift-left practices.




Multi-Project Oversight & Resource Allocation
Maintain portfolio-level oversight across concurrent product automation initiatives.
Align automation goals with engineering delivery cycles and business roadmaps.
Rebalance team resources dynamically across projects.
Act as the final technical escalation point.
Risk-Based Quality Leadership
Identify business-critical user journeys and prioritize automation.
Evaluate and quantify technical risk exposure.
Maintain transparent communication regarding automation gaps.
Metrics & Data-Driven Insights
Automation Coverage %
Defect Leakage Rate
Execution Cycle Time & Build Health
Flakiness Index
Stakeholder Collaboration & Strategic Partnership
Collaborate with Engineering, Product Management, and Architecture leadership.
Participate in architectural reviews.
Provide risk-based Go/No-Go release recommendations.
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
Evaluate emerging QA innovations.
Facilitate quarterly QA-CoE retrospectives.
Modernize legacy automation frameworks.

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📌 Lead Engineer, Technology Quality Assurance Pune
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