About Smartlead.ai

Smartlead is a sales-tech platform built to power high-volume outbound email at scale. We help businesses run reliable, compliant, and high-performing outreach by solving some of the hardest problems in outbound: deliverability, infrastructure reliability, and execution at scale.

Smartlead supports 31,000 businesses globally and processes 24M emails daily. We’re bootstrapped, profitable, and execution-focused. Quality is not a checkpoint here — it’s a core part of how we ship and scale.

? About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to strengthen Smartlead’s quality function and help build testing systems that scale with the product and team.

This role is hands-on and impact-driven. You’ll work across manual testing, automation, and quality strategy, while collaborating closely with Product and Engineering to ensure issues are caught early — not after customers feel them.

You’ll also play a key role in setting quality standards that improve release confidence over time.

This role is ideal for someone who:

Cares deeply about user experience and product reliability

Enjoys finding edge cases and breaking assumptions

Thinks in systems, not just test cases

Thrives in fast-moving SaaS environments

?️ What You’ll Do

- Manual Testing & Release Quality

- Execute comprehensive manual testing across features before release.

- Perform exploratory testing to uncover edge cases and UX issues.

- Own regression testing during release cycles.

- Drive QA during critical production incidents and hotfixes.

- Write explicit, detailed test cases and test plans for new features.

- Test Automation

- Design and implement automated test suites across API, backend, and frontend layers.





- Build and maintain CI/CD-integrated test execution (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI).

- Develop and maintain test frameworks using industry-standard tools.

- Create performance and load testing scripts for critical user flows.

- Define and track test coverage metrics; improve coverage over time.

- Quality Strategy & Process

- Partner with Product and Engineering to define testing strategies for new features.

- Advocate for strong QA practices and quality metrics across teams.

- Identify flaky tests and collaborate with engineers to fix root causes.

- Establish QA processes that scale as the team and product grow.

- Report on quality metrics and surface actionable insights.

- Cross-functional Collaboration

- Work closely with backend, frontend, and DevOps teams.

- Participate in sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.

- Debug issues across the full stack (database, API, frontend).

- Mentor junior QA engineers and help raise overall quality standards.

? What Success Looks Like

- Bugs are caught early, before they reach customers.

- Release confidence improves across teams.

- Automated test coverage steadily increases across critical flows.

- Production incidents reduce over time due to better test depth and visibility.

- QA is seen as a strategic partner, not a final gatekeeper.

- Junior QA engineers grow faster through coaching and example.

- Quality metrics are visible, trusted, and used for decision-making.





✅ You’ll Excel If You Have

- 7–10 years of QA experience with strong expertise in both manual and automation testing.

- 3 years working in SaaS startups (B2B SaaS preferred).

- Strong experience with at least one automation stack:

- JavaScript / TypeScript (Playwright, Cypress, Jest)

- Python (Selenium, Pytest, Robot Framework)

- Java (Selenium, TestNG)

- Solid API testing experience (Postman, REST Assured, or similar).

- Ability to write SQL queries to validate data integrity.

- Experience with test management tools like TestRail or Zephyr.

- Comfort with Git, version control workflows, and command-line tools.

- Strong problem-solving skills and a risk-based testing mindset.

- Clear communication — you can write and explain bugs with precision.

➕ Nice-to-Have Skills

- Performance and load testing (JMeter, Locust, k6).

- Docker and containerized test environments.

- AWS exposure (RDS, S3, Lambda) for test infrastructure.

- Experience with webhook or event-driven systems.

- GraphQL API testing.

- Mobile app testing (iOS/Android).

- Accessibility testing (WCAG).

- Basic security testing knowledge.

? Tech Stack You’ll Work With

- Frontend: Vue.js, TypeScript

- Backend: Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL

- Infrastructure: AWS (RDS, ECS, Fargate, S3)

- Automation: Playwright, Cypress, or equivalent

- APIs: REST, Webhooks

- Databases: PostgreSQL

? Why Join Smartlead.ai?

- Remote-first culture with high ownership and low bureaucracy

- Real users, real scale, real quality challenges

- Strong collaboration between QA, Product, and Engineering

- Opportunity to shape QA systems, not just execute tests
- A team that values clarity, accountability, and outcomes

📌 Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (Maharashtra)
🏢 Smartlead.ai
📍 Maharashtra