Senior Software Tester

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve testing strategies including shift-left, risk-based testing, BDD/TDD, and contract testing.

• Establish test standards and documentation aligned with ISTQB, ISO/IEC 29119, and OWASP.

• Run quality governance including readiness/exit gates, defect SLAs, and QA OKRs.

• Maintain a test architecture roadmap covering frameworks, tools, environments, data, and observability.

• Drive test tool consolidation and standardization.

• Own end-to-end test automation across UI, API, component, contract, smoke, and regression testing.

• Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines with maintainable frameworks and coding standards.

• Ensure comprehensive coverage across functional, non-functional, and automation layers.

• Plan and execute performance, scalability, resilience, and security testing.

• Define SLO-aligned quality goals and embed automated checks in pipelines.

• Partner with Product, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and Compliance teams.

• Provide dashboards, quality metrics, and release readiness reporting to leadership.

• Lead and mentor QA, automation, performance, and security testing teams.

• Manage team capacity, prioritization, and cross-team engagement.

• Establish shared testing services including regression, performance, security, test data, and environments.

• Coach Agile teams on acceptance criteria, testability, and sprint-level test planning.

• Lead retrospectives and incident reviews to prevent escaped defects.

• Drive continuous improvement and skills development in testing practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

• 9+ years of QA/testing experience with 3+ years in a Test Lead role.

• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript or Python.

• Strong SQL skills with hands-on MySQL and PostgreSQL experience.

• Experience with Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright for UI automation.

• Experience with API testing using Postman or REST Assured.

• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum, DevOps, CI/CD, BDD, TDD, and contract testing.

• Knowledge of performance and security testing tools such as JMeter, k6, and OWASP ZAP.

• Experience with Git and CI tools such as Jenkins.

• Experience with AWS and Kubernetes-based environments.

• Strong understanding of software testing principles and best practices.

• Excellent problem-solving, attention to detail, and communication skills.

• Self-motivated with a strong focus on continuous learning.