QA LEAD
The QA Lead owns QA strategy and planning, quality assurance, test automation, and quality metrics reporting across all Scrum pods — setting the quality bar and automation direction for the QA Engineers embedded within each pod. Strategy: Authored master test plans and quality gates on contract-governed deliveries. Automation: Hands-on automation framework design — UI (Selenium/Playwright) and API layers. Governance: Formal defect management, metrics, and release sign-off ownership. Mentorship: Experience directing and mentoring QA engineers embedded across multiple teams. Domain: QA leadership in regulated or high-assurance environments.
Experience · 10+ years in QA/testing with 4+ years leading QA across distributed teams/pods.
Quality Control
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
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About the role
What you’ll be working on and why this role matters.
The QA Lead is responsible for defining and governing the overall QA strategy, test planning, automation approach, and quality standards across all Scrum pods. The role establishes the programme-wide quality framework and ensures consistent testing practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
The QA Lead provides direction to QA Engineers embedded within each Scrum pod, establishing standards for functional, integration, regression, API, automation, and release testing. The role ensures that appropriate test coverage, quality gates, test environments, and automation practices are incorporated into each delivery cycle.
Working closely with the Engineering Manager, Engineering Leader, Business Analysts, Developers, DevOps, and Product Owners, the QA Lead identifies quality risks, test dependencies, and release readiness requirements and ensures that issues are addressed proactively. The role also owns quality metrics and reporting, monitoring test coverage, automation coverage, defect trends, test execution, regression results, and other key quality indicators to provide clear visibility into product and release quality.
Ultimately, the QA Lead acts as the programme-wide quality authority, setting the quality bar, driving test automation, and ensuring that every Scrum pod delivers reliable, thoroughly tested, and production-ready software.
Responsibilities
Day-to-day ownership and impact areas.
Own the test strategy and master test plan across all pods — functional, integration, regression, and non-functional streams.
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Define the automation strategy and framework standards (Selenium/Playwright, API test tooling) across pods.
Lead defect governance — triage cadence, severity standards, and release quality gates.
Provide release quality sign-off with documented evidence against acceptance criteria.
Direct and mentor the QA Engineers embedded in each Scrum pod, including the Data Migration pod's QA Engineer.
Maintain requirement-to-test traceability with the Lead Business Analyst.
Coordinate test environment and test data needs with the DevOps Lead, including data-privacy-compliant test data practices.
Produce quality metrics reporting for the Engineering Manager and Engineering Leader.
Requirements
Skills and experience that will help you succeed.
Experience: 10+ years in QA/testing with 4+ years leading QA across distributed teams/pods.
Strategy: Authored master test plans and quality gates on contract-governed deliveries.
Automation: Hands-on automation framework design — UI (Selenium/Playwright) and API layers.
Governance: Formal defect management, metrics, and release sign-off ownership.
Mentorship: Experience directing and mentoring QA engineers embedded across multiple teams.
Domain: QA leadership in regulated or high-assurance environments.
Qualifications and certifications
Education and credentials that support this role.
Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field.
ISTQB Advanced preferred.
Nice to have
Bonus strengths — not required, but valued.
ISTQB Advanced/Expert certification.
Data-migration/ETL testing coordination exposure.
Government UAT facilitation experience.
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