Experience: 10+ Years
Location: Noida Office

Role Overview:

The QA Lead is responsible for leading the Quality Assurance function by ensuring the delivery of high-quality, reliable, and scalable software solutions. This role combines technical expertise, people leadership, test strategy, quality engineering, automation, and continuous improvement to support successful product delivery.
The QA Lead works closely with Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, and other stakeholders to define quality standards, implement testing strategies, drive AI-enabled quality practices, and mentor the QA team. The ideal candidate is passionate about delivering exceptional software quality while fostering innovation, collaboration, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

Quality Strategy & Leadership

- Define and execute the overall QA strategy aligned with organizational and product objectives.
- Establish quality standards, testing methodologies, and quality engineering best practices.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across quality engineering processes.
- Ensure QA activities support successful and timely product releases.
- Promote a quality-first culture across teams.

Test Planning & Execution

- Review business requirements, user stories, and technical specifications to ensure testability.
- Define test coverage, testing scope, and release readiness criteria.
- Prepare comprehensive test plans, test cases, and testing schedules.
- Estimate testing effort and allocate resources effectively.
- Oversee functional, regression, integration, system, smoke, exploratory, and user acceptance testing activities.
- Responsible for end to end business workflow validation as part of every release cycle.

Test Automation & AI Adoption

- Lead the implementation and enhancement of test automation frameworks.
- Drive adoption of AI-powered testing tools to improve productivity and test effectiveness.
- Identify and implement automation opportunities across functional, regression, API, and performance testing.
- Promote AI-assisted defect analysis, test generation,



and quality engineering practices.
- Encourage continuous learning and adoption of emerging QA technologies.

Quality Engineering & Continuous Improvement

- Monitor and improve software quality across the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), from requirements through production release.
- Define, track, and report quality metrics such as defect leakage, test coverage, automation coverage, production defects, regression effectiveness, and release readiness.
- Establish quality dashboards and reporting mechanisms for engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders.
- Analyze defect trends, perform root cause analysis, and work with cross-functional teams to implement preventive actions.
- Drive defect prevention initiatives to reduce production issues and improve release confidence.
- Continuously improve testing processes, tools, automation practices, and overall quality engineering maturity.

Team Leadership & Talent Development

- Lead, mentor, coach, and develop QA Engineers.
- Conduct performance reviews, goal setting, and career development discussions.
- Build a collaborative, high-performing QA team.
- Support recruitment, interviewing, onboarding, and training of QA professionals.
- Foster knowledge sharing and continuous learning within the team.

Delivery & Release Management

- Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to ensure timely project delivery.
- Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release planning.
- Track testing progress and communicate project risks proactively.
- Support production deployments and release validation activities when required.
- Ensure testing milestones align with project schedules and business priorities.





Stakeholder Collaboration

- Collaborate with Product Managers, Developers, Customer Success, and Business teams.
- Participate in client discussions to understand business requirements and clarify expectations if required.
- Provide meaningful feedback on requirements, usability, and product quality.
- Communicate testing status, risks, and quality metrics to stakeholders.

Process & Compliance

- Ensure adherence to organizational QA processes, standards, and documentation practices.
- Maintain complete and accurate test documentation.
- Ensure timely completion of timesheets and project tracking activities.
- Support compliance with security, regulatory, and organizational standards where applicable.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
- 8+ years of overall experience in Software Quality Assurance.
- Minimum 2 years of experience leading QA teams.
- Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, Agile, and Scrum methodologies.
- Experience with manual testing, automation testing, API testing, and regression testing.
- Experience with defect management and test management tools.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Experience working in cross-functional Agile teams.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with AI-powered testing tools and intelligent automation platforms.
- Experience in healthcare, insurance, or enterprise SaaS applications.
- Knowledge of performance, security, and accessibility testing.
- ISTQB or equivalent QA certification.
- Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps practices to support release validation, deployment readiness, and quality checks across environments.

What We Offer:

- Competitive salary with a comprehensive benefits package
- A collaborative, supportive, and innovation-driven work setting
- Opportunity to work on enterprise-grade InsureTech solutions shaping the future of underwriting automation

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