Role Description

Job: Lead Engineer (QA)

Location: Bangalore

We are looking for a Lead Engineer (QA) with strong experience in manual and automation testing. The candidate will help ensure product quality through test planning, execution, automation development, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

- Define and drive the QA strategy, test approach, and quality standards for assigned products and releases.
- Translate business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria into risk-based test plans, scenarios,

and test cases.
- Design and execute manual test cases for web applications.
- Develop, maintain, and improve reliable, reusable automation scripts and frameworks.
- Perform functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing; identify opportunities to expand

appropriate test coverage.
- Validate APIs, database transactions, and end-to-end data flows across integrated systems.
- Plan test scope, effort, dependencies, environments, and test data; surface risks and blockers early.
- Integrate and execute automated tests in CI/CD pipelines, and use results to support timely, informed release

decisions.
- Establish and communicate quality indicators, test progress, defect trends, coverage, and release risks to

stakeholders.
- Lead defect triage and prioritization; ensure defects are clearly documented, tracked, verified, and closed

using Jira or Azure DevOps.
- Partner with Product Owners, Developers,



and QA teams throughout discovery, development, and release to

build quality into the product.
- Mentor and guide QA engineers; review test plans and automation contributions, and encourage consistent

testing practices.
- Assess release readiness, communicate residual quality risks, and provide evidence-based recommendations

to stakeholders.
- Drive root-cause analysis for escaped defects and recurring failures, and follow through on corrective and

preventive actions.
- Identify and champion continuous improvements in test coverage, automation reliability, delivery efficiency,

and overall product quality.
- Contribute to non-functional testing priorities—such as performance, security, accessibility, and usability— where applicable to the product.

Key Skills Required

- 8–10 years of experience in manual and automation testing.
- Hands-on experience with an automation framework; Playwright experience is preferred.
- Experience with API testing using Postman.
- Valuable understanding of SQL and database validation.
- Good understanding of NoSQL queries, especially MongoDB.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Expereince with ETL and Data Analysis.

Good To Have Skills

- Knowledge of AWS services.
- Retail or store technology domain experience, such as POS, inventory, or ordering systems.
- Selenium or Nightwatch experience

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