Senior QA Lead - Full-Stack Testing and Automation

About the job

Experience: 8 - 15 years in QA, with at least 2 years in a lead role

Responsibilities:

• Own and define the test strategy for features, releases, and systems across multiple teams
• Lead manual and automated testing efforts to ensure high product quality
• Mentor, guide, and grow a team of QA engineers through technical and process coaching
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and DevOps to ensure alignment on quality goals
• Drive release readiness, including regression, performance, and production validation testing
• Manage the QA effort across weekly/bi-weekly release cadences, ensuring fast feedback loops
• Identify and cover edge cases (e.g., timezones, Unicode, scaling boundaries) early in the lifecycle
• Work with automation engineers to improve CI/CD pipeline integration and coverage
• Proactively identify quality risks and own mitigation planning
• Lead root cause analyses of production issues and drive systemic improvements
• Report key quality metrics (e.g., defect leakage, automation coverage, flaky tests) to stakeholders
• Champion continuous improvement in QA processes, tools, and test architecture
• Participate in agile ceremonies, sprint planning, and release retrospectives
• Promote a strong customer-first quality mindset across engineering
• Encourage self-learning within the QA team and stay current with modern QA tools and methodologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong experience in web and API testing
• Automation exposure for API
• Exposure to CI/CD systems like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI
• Good understanding of MySQL, logs, and Linux debugging
• Experience working in agile teams with fast release cycles
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Comfortable working with distributed teams and across time zones
• Experience working in startup or scale-up environments

Nice to Have:

• Experience testing chatbots, AI-driven products, or browser extensions
• Exposure to performance testing and tools like JMeter or k6
• Understanding of observability practices
• Knowledge of Docker
• Hands-on with automation tools like Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Postman