You will lead a team of testers and automation engineers, ensuring high-quality deliverables through robust test planning, automation, and continuous improvement. This role requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and collaboration across agile squads.
Responsibilities
Strategy & Governance
- Define and evolve the testing strategy (shiftleft, riskbased testing, BDD/TDD, contract testing) across squads and products.
- Establish common standards and templates (test strategy, plan, RTM, exit criteria) aligned to recognized practices (e.g., ISTQB foundations, ISO/IEC 29119 test documentation, OWASP Testing Guide).
- Create and run quality governance (readiness/exit gates, defect SLAs, change failure rate tracking) and own QA OKRs for the division.
- Maintain a test architecture roadmap (frameworks, environments, data, observability) and drive tool consolidation.
Test Engineering & Automation
- Own endtoend automation strategy: UI, API, contract, component, and smoke/regression suites integrated into CI/CD.
- Ensure maintainable frameworks, coding standards, and code reviews champion modular page/object models, data builders, and parallelization.
- Ability to define and achieve comprehensive test coverage across functional, non-functional, and automation layers to ensure quality and risk mitigation
- Plan and execute performance, scalability, resilience, and security testing collaborate with engineering on tuning and hardening.
- Define SLO aligned test goals (latency, throughput, error rate) and bake checks into pipelines.
Stakeholder Management & Communication
- Partner with Product, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and Compliance to balance risk, speed, and regulatory requirements.
- Provide clear dashboards and release readiness reports communicate trade offs and recommendations to leadership.
- Lead and mentor a multi disciplinary squad (automation, functional, performance, security) serving multiple applications manage capacity, prioritization, and cross team engagement.
- Stand up shared services for regression, performance & security testing, test data management, and environment orchestration.
- Coach squads on story quality (acceptance criteria, testability, Definition of Ready/Done) and facilitate test planning in sprint cadences.
Continuous Improvement
- Lead retrospectives and incident reviews (escaped defects, production issues) to improve prevention.
- Drive skills development (automation, performance, security) and keep the team current with tooling and methods.
Requirements:
- 10+ years in QA/testing, 3+ years leading centralized or cross product testing teams.
- Strong proficiency in programming languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript or Python.
- Strong SQL skills with hands-on experience in MySQL and PostgreSQL for test data preparation, backend verification, and database-level testing.
- Hands on expertise with Selenium, Cypress and Playwright and API testing (Postman/REST Assured), plus CI/CD integration.
- Strong grasp of Agile/Scrum, DevOps, and shift left practices (BDD/TDD, contract testing).
- Solid knowledge of performance and security testing concepts and tools (JMeter/k6, OWASP ZAP).
- Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and continuous integration tools (e.g., Jenkins).
- Experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and container orchestration (Kubernetes) for test environment management.
- Solid understanding of software testing principles, methodologies, and best practices.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Effective communication skills with the ability to collaborate and coordinate with cross-functional teams.
- Self-motivated with a passion for continuous learning and improvement.
